The Churchill County Farm Bureau has teamed up with some Churchill County Educators to discover new ways to teach students about farms. Recognizing that different teachers have different teaching styles and different students have different learning methods, the Farm Bureau offered a Teacher Training Class based on Dawn Alexander’s book, “Farm Anatomy, Activities for Kids.”
The session was led by Alexander who introduced the teachers to a different way to look at farms as homes not only for the farmer, but also for the animals, plants, and insects. She included the farmer’s responsibility to understand and care for everything from an insect to the prize rooster.
The book provides an excellent fun way with hands-on activities, to meet the curriculum requirements for STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics). During the training class, the teachers performed several of the activities that they might assign their students along with the requirement of keeping a Farm Journal.
The attending teachers expressed their appreciation for the class and were surprised and pleased with all the additional materials provided by Churchill County Farm Bureau and a grant from the Nevada Agriculture Foundation. At the end of the day, each teacher received a bag with books and prepared activity kits with all needed supplies to take back to their classrooms. Two lucky attendees won drawing prizes of $75 gift certificates each.
Dawn Alexander has strong ties to agriculture with 35 years as an elementary educator. As a student, Alexander, then known as Dawn Marie Albert, lived on the University of Nevada Farm in Reno and participated in 4H and the Hereford program. Alexander has received two national awards for teaching. She received the excellence in teaching agriculture award from the National Agriculture in the Classroom organization in 2019 and has also received the Presidential Award for excellence in mathematics and science teaching.
Alexander’s book is 106 pages of fun, hands-on learning geared for students in 4th-6th grades and is available almost everywhere books are sold.
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