Abstract Details
'Critically thinking about Agriculture' |
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Participants will explore the use of common core critical thinking strategies to teach Agricultural topics. Educators will explore templates created to teach students how to make comparisons, classify data, make generalizations (or abstract),analyze perspectives, construct support, do a system analysis, use inductive and deductive reasoning, and more. Samples of students work will be used to show how these templates can be used to create informational writing with stronger supportive details,
and concluding statements. Workshop Session (all workshops will be one hour) | |
Presentation: 661KristinWescott.pdf |
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Handouts: Handout is not Available |
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Kristen Wescott Maine Agriculture in the Classroom (207) 749-7557 kristenwescott@rsu57.org Kristen Wescott, grew up on a Dairy Farm in Albion, Maine. Her summers were filled with haying and showing dairy cattle at the fairs. After graduating from the University of Maine at Orono, She began my 30 year teaching career. In this time she has taught grades 3 through 6, including 7 years as a 3,4,5 multiage classroom teacher. During these years she has integrated the teaching of agricultural topics into all content areas. It was these teachings that helped her become Maine's Agricultural Teacher of the Year, a National Award Winning Teacher of the Year, a White Rienhardt recipient, and the York County Soil and Conservation Teacher of the Year. She has presented at the National Ag in the Classroom Conferences in St. Louis, Colorado, Pennsylvania, and Kentucky. She is currently teaching fourth grade at Line Elementary School in Limerick, Maine. |