Utah Agriculture in the Classroom

Get Certified This Summer for FREE! 🌱

Summer is the perfect time to earn your Agriculture Literacy Certification through Utah Agriculture in the Classroom and the National Center for Agricultural Literacy. Build your agricultural knowledge, strengthen your teaching, and gain valuable professional development, all at no cost.

👉Click here to register - https://form.jotform.com/252925786328167

📚️ Ag Literacy in the Library 📚️

Agriculture in the library? Absolutely! The library is an ideal setting to promote agricultural literacy, fostering connections between students' everyday lives and the food and fiber systems that sustain them. By integrating agriculture into library activities and books referenced by the lessons on the National Agriculture in the Classroom, students gain a deeper understanding of how agriculture influences their daily lives, touching on science, social studies, and literacy skills. 📚️ 🌿

🐮 Celebrate National Dairy Month this June! 🐮

Did you know? Milk naturally contains 13 essential nutrients, including calcium, protein, and vitamin D. Talk about milk power! 🥛 💪

Visit Utah Agriculture in the Classroom Matrix for fun, interactive lessons that help students learn more about dairy farming and the important role it plays in our communities. 🐮

🍓 Cool Phase Changes: Freeze Drying to Preserve Strawberries🍓

Discover the fascinating science behind freeze-drying through the lens of a food scientist with Kris! In this hands-on workshop, participants will explore how agriculture and science intersect in the preservation and processing of foods. Using the lesson “The Science of Freeze-Drying” from the National Agricultural Literacy Curriculum Matrix, educators will experience how to bring real-world agricultural concepts into the classroom. 🍓 🔎

REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN!

Check out the NEW Taste and Teach $250 Award for any Utah public K-12 teacher! This award provides selected teachers with funding of $250 to purchase Utah-grown or Utah-made foods that allow students to taste, explore, and learn about the people, products, and stories behind Utah agriculture. From fresh fruits and vegetables to dairy, beef, popcorn, honey, and more, “Taste and Teach” helps students make meaningful connections between local agriculture, science, nutrition, culture, and the food they eat every day.

Applications close June 15, 2026. Apply here: https://form.jotform.com/261336537536158

Act Fast! Only a few spots remain for our Farm to Fork Summer Agriculture Institute!

✨️ New Lesson Highlight✨️

How Sweet It Is: Investigating Sugars and Sweeteners🍬

This lesson will help you and your students, "Investigate natural and artificial sweeteners by sorting examples, tracing sugar from field to table, and comparing the pros and cons of artificial alternatives. Students build nutrition literacy by evaluating food labels for total and added sugars, then apply their learning in a taste test of cookies made with different sweeteners."🍪

This lesson is designed for grades 9-12, but can be modified to fit other grade levels🧑‍🏫

Coming Soon - Taste and Teach!🥗 📖

Keep your eyes open for fun new teaching opportunity through Utah Agriculture in the Classroom.👀

More details to come!📰

Have you registered for our Summer Ag Institute: Farm-To-Fork yet? 🐮

Registration closes Friday, May 15, 2026 at 5:00 pm 🕔️

If you're wanting to join us in Richfield next month to learn more about lessons and resources that incorporate beef, milk, and salt in your classroom, make sure to register before Friday! 📆

Congratulations to our 2026 National Conference Scholarship Recipients! 🎉

These educators will be traveling to Rhode Island next month to attend the National Agriculture in the Classroom Conference. This opportunity will help them to continue incorporating agriculture into their classrooms and schools. 🌱 📖

Thank you to everyone who applied for a scholarship this year! 🖊️