Local teacher, Reva Pracht, is bringing agriculture into the classroom, one lesson at a time, using resources from the NSAS Foundation for Agriculture in the Classroom. Third grade students at Garnett Elementary, with the help of Mrs. Pracht and Mrs. Galyene Comfort, classified corn, wheat, sorghum, and sunflower seeds by their physical properties. Students learned about some of the products from those grains and made a germination and observing station for seeds.
The foundation has been providing material to teachers for over 40 years. The agriculture sector in Kansas supports over 256,000 jobs, including the parents and relatives of some of the students. The Foundation goal is to give kids an understanding of farming and ranching with the hope that some choose agriculture as their career someday and have a better appreciation for how farmers feed, fuel and clothe our great Nation and form a better appreciation of it’s importance.
