APRIL WHITE, PARADISE VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL

KATY GROSETA, BUCKEYE UNION HIGH SCHOOL

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T-Shirt Art

Directions:Design artwork for a tee shirt representing the assigned CONCEPTS (push mower safety)1. Front of Shirt must have artwork (minimum of 4 colors) showing the concept, variable or term.2. Back of the shirt must have a 1 or 2 line ‘cute or clever (but CLEAN)’ saying using the concept, variable or term3. A minimum of 1 paragraph explaining how the artwork and saying get the SCIENCE idea across must be written.The IDEA/CONCEPT for this assignment is

Party Host Moment

Party host must identify all “guests” in attendance Guests can be given ID in advance or during that class

period Advance notice helps host and participants

Great as a review Species identification Tool or machinery ID Vocabulary review

Today’s category: species of Arizona fish Any fish experts in the crowd?

Today’s category: species of Arizona fish

Striped bassGreen sunfishSpikedaceSonora chubAngelfish

Razorback suckerBeautiful shinerColorado squawfishBrown troutSmall mouth bass

Using 3 x 5 cards

Using 3 x 5 cards

Warning: they’ll change your lifeVariations

Hand out at beginning of class Use during class or at end

Create your own memory game Have students create your own jeopardy questions Zip Around

Can also use multi-color packs to help partner/group students and combine with one of the review activities

Pairing Off & Grouping Up

Line students up using different parameters Shoe size Age Birth month or date Height Alphabetical by first name (middle name? last name?)

Once you have them lined up, you can slide the line, weave the line, work with a neighbor

Trivia Pairs Each student is given one item of information and must

find the other students who have similar info to form a group.

Ex: Give one student ewe, one student lamb and one student wether.

Give out names of something (e.g. commodities, livestock, greenhouse plants, flowers) and other slips with info about each and have student match the correct description with each name.

Clock Partners

Clock Partners

It’s application time, baby!

Line up by birthday – month & day only

Use your partnership/group to apply one of today’s strategies or share one of your own for specific lessons

Be prepared to share in 10 minutes

That was nice, but where can I find more resources??

NAAE Communities of Practice

Website:http://naae.ca.uky.edu:8080/clearspace_comm

unity/index.jspa;jsessionid=B834592B5BD4223E174D8689168DF87C

32 different communities All the way from Advocacy and Ag Econ to Technology

and Vet Science

You must register to post items but you can read the posts without registering

Reviewing Posts

Can be done by community or thread

Each community has a facilitator who moderate questions and discussion

Similar topics are suggested on right side of page

Navigating Communities

Navigating Communities

Overview Greeting from facilitator Link to recent content

All Content Both discussions and documents, sorted by date

Discussions Sorted by date

Documents Downloadable

Resources on Conference jump drive

AGtivities HandbookTemplates for

Are you smarter than you Ag class? Jeopardy Who Wants to be a Millionaire? Pyramid Bingo Board

Strategies/activities for classroom notebooks Magazine article reviews Letter to the editor

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