Oklahoma Pork Council/Oklahoma Ag in the Classroom Grants Note: For the protection of the children pictured, photos are placed at random and do not necessarily reflect corresponding projects or locations. 2005 Grant Recipients (Note: After 2005 grant amounts were limited to $300 per grant) Preparing the Classroom Garden Prairie Dolls Pumpkins by the Pound Pig Herding: Stick Horse Rodeo Agriculture is a Cycle Identifying Grains: Hogs on a Diet     Recipient Funds used for Janet Howard, Chickasha, $396.82 Incubator and poultry project Rani Smith, Cornelson, Fairview, $435 Materials for teaching various Ag in the Classroom lessons Students learned: A combine can harvest other crops besides wheat. Agriculture is all around us. Agriculture brings money to our state. Why we need brands and the symbols people use. Pigs are used for more than just meat. Patricia Long, Eisenhower, Enid, $500 Gardening project Mistie Bunch, Stilwell , $415 Pumpkin project Cheryl Hyde, Lexington, $500 Ag-related books, insect unit, plant unit Ruthie Rayner, John Ross, Edmond, $500 Ag-related books and materials for teaching various Ag in the Classroom lessons Shannon Comer, Skyline, Stillwater, $500 Materials for teaching various Ag in the Classroom lessons Judy Dilbeck, Temple, $499.22 Ag-related books The students learned: large pumpkin will float. . . . Pumpkins are not all orange. There are many different breeds of cattle. . . FFA and 4-H members must work very hard to raise and train show animals. Worms are excellent decomposers and are hard to measure. . . . Newly hatched baby chicks are wet. Annette Dake, Blanchard, Bridge Creek, $500 Quilting project Christy Pollard, Merritt, $500 Materials for teaching various Ag in the Classroom lessons Monica Hardbarger, Stilwell, $499 Materials for teaching various Ag in the Classroom lessons Janice Cockrum, Chickasha, $332.45 Incubator and materials for teaching about poultry Debra Wood, Will Rogers, OKC, $325 Materials for teaching various Ag in the Classroom lessons Allyson K. Cleveland, Meeker, $396 Materials for teaching various Ag in the Classroom lessons Vickie Legg, Oktaha, $500 Extra, Ag-stra, Read All About it (ag-related library books) Rani Smith, Fairview Elementary, $435 Materials for Ag Day activities Things we learned: Makeup comes from pigs and cows. Canola oil comes from very small seeds and is grown in Major County. Pig Showmanship. Why erosion is bad for farming. How important agriculture is to Oklahoma. Patricia Long, Eisenhower, Enid, $500 Outdoor Classroom Janet Howard, Chickasha, $396.82 Chick embryology, ag-related books and various materials for Ag in the Classroom lessons Sherri Goeringer, Cordell, $500 Field trip to a farm Students learned: Corn grows very tall. Farm animals smell. Sheep feel soft. Pigs' hair is stiff and they might bite. Baby calves are cute. Some animals are very big. Ears of corn are hard. You have to watch where you walk. Agriculture can be fun. Teresa Hanley, Little Axe, $500 Materials for providing hands on experience caring for farm animals. My students had chores every day. They fed and watered the animals. They raked the barn and the yard. They gathered eggs. We sold our eggs to the cafeteria. My students learned that it required a constant effort to care for their farm. The animals depended upon our responsibility.     Back to Grant Recipients Back to Grants Page Back to Oklahoma Ag in the Classroom Oklahoma Ag in the Classroom is a program of the Oklahoma Cooperative Extension Service, the Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food and Forestry and the Oklahoma State Department of Education.