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WFBF Awards Mini-Grants to Ag in the Classroom Teachers
Wisconsin Ag Connection - 12/15/2017

The Wisconsin Farm Bureau Foundation, through the Wisconsin Farm Bureau's Ag in the Classroom program, has awarded 13 Teacher Mini-Grants to Wisconsin teachers to use in agricultural literacy lessons and activities. The funds provide opportunities for teachers to obtain funding that may not be available through their local school budgets.

The following teachers were awarded $100 grants that will be used in their classroom:

** Nicholas Mees - Merrill Middle School, Oshkosh: The grant will be used to purchase additional hydroponic equipment, so students can expand their knowledge of hydroponics through maintenance, weekly measurements, pH readings and nutrient requirements as they grow lettuce, green beans, tomatoes and other crops.

** Dr. Julie Ray - Winter Schools, Winter: Students at Winter Schools will use this funding for pots, potting soil and other equipment used to learn about planting and caring for vegetables. Students will also further understand the importance of sunlight, water and other resources in growing plants and collect and analyze data on growth patterns.

** Frank Van Brocklin - Northland Lutheran High School, Kronenwetter: Northland Lutheran High School is in the process of developing a honey bee colony and will use this grant to purchase a bee suit. Students will learn to establish a hive, work safely around bees and how bees live in a community.

** Kirstin Thompson - Greenfield Elementary, Baldwin: Grant dollars will be used to support an oral history unit as students interview people about their rural life experiences. This project will lead students to research rural life skills, seek out experts in the community and complete an oral presentation on the information they gathered.

** John Slipek - Abbotsford High School, Abbotsford: Abbotsford High School students will work with second grade classrooms at their elementary school to teach the principals of growing seeds into plants. The grant will be used to purchase seeds, containers and other supplies needed.

** Teri Eberhardy - DCE 4K at St John Lutheran, Wausau: Students will hatch duck eggs in their classroom and learn about duckling development, hatching and new duckling care. The grant will help fund a new incubator that has an egg turner feature.

** Lisa Wasson - Houlton Elementary, Houlton: The grant will help purchase screens for the vents on the school greenhouse where fourth grade students will learn to plant corn, beans and squash for the 3 Sisters Garden, part of the Native Americans Farming Society unit.

** Cheri Oglesby - St. Rose of Lima, Cuba City: High school students at St. Rose of Lima will take advantage of this funding to assist in purchasing resources to teach Pre-K students about agriculture. The older students will utilize books, memory cards, games and other educational activities to teach the younger students.

** Tim Olson - Houlton Elementary, Houlton: This grant will purchase additional screens and vents needed for the school’s greenhouse. Plants grown in the greenhouse are part of a Native American farming practices unit which focuses on characteristics and life cycles of organisms.

** Candice Franks - Badger High School, Lake Geneva: This grant will help educate more than 300 students about veterinary science and other careers in the animal science field. The funds will help purchase gates for use during the Food for America event the FFA chapter hosts, which will promote safe animal handling and allow students to gain animal husbandry skills.

** Heidi Tubbs - Warrens Elementary School, Warrens: The grant money will be used to purchase books that promote agriculture, which will be read to elementary students during milk break and used with “This Business Called Agriculture” and other resources about agriculture.

** Louise Ploederl - St. Edward School, Appleton: Students at St. Edward School will be hatching chicks and plan to use this funding to purchase incubator thermometers, bedding, feed, waterers and heat lamps. The classroom will receive fertilized eggs from a local farmer and watch and record the process of hatching and chick growth.

** Patrick Sahli - Houlton Elementary, Houlton: Houlton Elementary will use this grant to help fund equipment that will improve ventilation in the current greenhouse. Students will observe and note changes that occur because of improved ventilation and differences in insect infiltration rates.

The Wisconsin Farm Bureau's Ag in the Classroom program also has matching grants available to groups and organizations that are doing agricultural literacy projects.


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