The Oklahoma Pork Council is helping local teachers educate their students about Oklahoma agriculture.
Each year the OPC works with Oklahoma’s Ag in the Classroom program to provide grants for teachers to purchase supplies needed to teach the Ag in the Classroom curriculum. Teachers can request up to $300 for supplies.
Betty Johnson received a grant to teach 130 fourth graders at Northwood Elementary in Seminole for the Ag in the Classroom curriculum. Johnson will teach five lessons about agriculture this semester. Her students will learn about bees, pigs, cattle, the diversity of Oklahoma’s agriculture and the importance of agriculture in our everyday life.
The OPC Ag in the Classroom grant will help Johnson purchase supplies such as beef jerky, tempera paint, pipe cleaners, folders, pumpkins, watermelons, strawberries and squash.
“When so many of today’s children are many generations removed from the farm, it is important to teach them where our food comes from and the importance of agriculture in our state,” said Mark McGinnis, OPC community outreach specialist. “That is why we feel the Ag in the Classroom program is so important and we invest in it each year on behalf of Oklahoma’s pork producers.”
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The Oklahoma Pork Council is helping local teachers educate their students about Oklahoma agriculture.
Each year the OPC works with Oklahoma’s Ag in the Classroom program to provide grants for teachers to purchase supplies needed to teach the Ag in the Classroom curriculum. Teachers can request up to $300 for supplies.
Betty Johnson received a grant to teach 130 fourth graders at Northwood Elementary in Seminole for the Ag in the Classroom curriculum. Johnson will teach five lessons about agriculture this semester. Her students will learn about bees, pigs, cattle, the diversity of Oklahoma’s agriculture and the importance of agriculture in our everyday life.
The OPC Ag in the Classroom grant will help Johnson purchase supplies such as beef jerky, tempera paint, pipe cleaners, folders, pumpkins, watermelons, strawberries and squash.
“When so many of today’s children are many generations removed from the farm, it is important to teach them where our food comes from and the importance of agriculture in our state,” said Mark McGinnis, OPC community outreach specialist. “That is why we feel the Ag in the Classroom program is so important and we invest in it each year on behalf of Oklahoma’s pork producers.”
