Florida Ag in the Classroom Reached 274,000 Students in 2012
School gardens , grant money and the Agriculture Literacy Day reading program helped Florida Agriculture in the Classroom ( FAITC ) reach nearly 12,000 teachers and more than 274,000 students in the past year .
The non-profit group , based in Gainesville , continued to distribute its popular school garden curriculum , Gardening for Grades , through online orders and teacher workshops .
“ We ’ re pleased teachers are finding our materials , grants and other programs useful as they use agricultural concepts to teach language , math , science , social studies and other subject areas ,” said Ken Barton , chairman of Florida Agriculture in the Classroom and executive director of the Florida Peanut Producers Association .
More than 7,600 teachers and 150,000 students participated in the organization ’ s school garden curriculum and mini-grant program . FAITC trained 750 teachers and volunteers at its professional development workshops . In addition , volunteers visited 3,100 classrooms and 78,000 elementary students with the Florida Agriculture Literacy Day reading program and the book , Healthy Florida Farms .
To learn more about Florida Agriculture in the Classroom programs , access www . agtag . org
Florida Agriculture in the Classroom offers most of its materials and workshops to Florida teachers and students free of charge because of the funding it receives from the agriculture specialty license plate known as
the “ Ag Tag .” •
For more information , contact Lisa Gaskalla at ( 352 ) 745-0246 or gaskalla @ ufl . edu .
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