Ag In The Classroom Honoree Says Relationship
With Students Is A Partnership
GAY BROWNLEE
Somerset Co. Correspondent
CENTRAL CITY (Somerset
Co.) —“I consider my relation
ship with my pupils a partnership.
I teach them and they teach me,”
said Celeste Meek.
The Shade-Central City School
Celeste Meek of the Shade-Central City School District
was awarded honorable mention for her Ag In the Class
room curriculum.
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District teacher of fourth, fifth and
sixth grade science was recently
honored for her Ag in the Class
room curriculum, by the Pennsyl
vania Farm Bureau’s Young
Farmer and Rancher Committee.
In being awarded honorable
mention. Meek received $250
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worth of materials to enhance her
Ag in the Classroom ideas.
Nikki Dohner from the Milton
Hershey School in Hershey, Dau
phin County, received the Out
standing Teacher award at the
same time.
“On the one hand I was real sur
prised, but on the other hand, I
wasn’t because we had done a lot
in agriculture.” said Meek who
had attended the 199 S workshop
at Penn State.
Interestingly, albeit coinciden
tally, Shade’s school district that
year began block scheduling
classes for its intermediate grades.
The trial was to last three years.
Each of language arts, mathe
matics and science-health were set
for 80-minute blocks with appro
priate breaks.
For Meek the timing was ideal.
In 80 minutes there would be time
for all kinds of imaginative les
sons using the techniques and
knowledge from her summer ex
perience.
Walk into her classroom (Don
Barta co-teaches and the aide is
Ruth Weaver), and you feel the
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a teacher who believes in her call
ing to expand the seeking minds of
the young children who pass un
der her influence.
It’s hard to imagine boredom
becoming a problem in this class
room when Meek is serving up a
fresh idea.
She says that the workshop
really heightened her awareness of
agriculture. “I learned a lot at Ag
in the Classroom. Growing up I
thought agriculture was raising a
garden and chickens and so forth.”
she said.
“I found it’s much broader.
Agriculture is in everything,” she
said, enthusiastically.
To help her pupils also under
stand, she invited a local farmer to
demonstrate sheep shearing, let
them see wool spinning, planted a
tree on Arbor Day and took field
trips.
During their studies on nutri
tion, Meek video taped the chil
dren’s buttermaking experiment.
Not only were they educated, but
later, watching a replay of their
own work was highly entertaining
and fun, besides enhancing their
powers of observation.
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Meek makes her opportunities
count One advantage is having a
daughter who lives in Southamp
ton County, Virginia, where Meek
can latch on to peanut and cotton
plants form nearby growers of
them.
With these “visuals” one
potted and the other in a box
the teacher told her pupils that two
words sum up what agriculture is
"food” and “fiber.”
“Agriculture is anything to do
with food and fiber,” she stated,
opening die lesson with a discus
sion about that morning’s break
fast and the fact that everybody
was wearing clothes, to illustrate
her meaning.
She continued, explaining that
the peanuts actually grow under
the ground but their plant is above
the ground.
“Peanuts are called ‘goober
peas,’ and cotton is called ‘white
gold’,” she told them.
Next came the Healthy Food
Snack Company. The children,
seated by fours at their desks, let
tered off A, B, C, D and the
A’s formed a factory assembly
line behind the long table.
Each wore a card to correspond with the job being
done. Foreman, plate separator, date stamper, celery
provider, peanut butter spreader, raisin counter, rai
sin placer, quality control inspector, packer, deliv
ery man, custodian, and the advertisers. Consumers
were those who chose to eat the snack, or the B, C,
and D kids.
A few lessons on courtesy were also inserted,
such as don’t begin eating until all have been served,
then everybody should eat at the same time.
Meek was amazed how easily agriculture fit into
all subjects including, besides science (she also
teaches fourth grade social studies), language, all
types of writing, mathematics, art, and even music.
In the cafeteria the students sing the Green Bean
Daily song while signing. This activity is helping
the children leant how to communicate with some
one who is hearing-impaired.
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