Pizza Link to Earth— Agriculture Literacy “Student Centered Learning”

Posted on November 3, 2011 by

This fun “agriculture literacy” program features:

  • cooperative learning (team competition)
  • student centered learning (minimum time required for facilitating activities)
  • AITC (excellent for Ag In The Classroom activities)
  • FFA Supervised Agriculture Experience (SAE-allowing high school students to develop educational skills as they assist lower grade teachers)
  • Scout Activities (A program developed for Girl and Boy Scouts to develop leadership, earn rank and badges)
  • Boys & Girls and 4-H clubs (adapted to after school programs)
  • Conservation Education (kids explore and discover the value of protecting topsoil from erosion)
  • Instructional Materials {lesson plans, awards, Plexiglas plant/root box for kids to explore and discover value of topsoil, Pizz-A-Thon tee shirts (traveling billboards), facilitator/leader , direct assistance to local facilitators, maintaining the blog, filming and DVD production-including sponsor interviews}.

  • Go to the Recipe “Prize Pizza” page to ( to see the recipe entered from Bolivia, South America on 12-20-2011, by a former ISU student, responding to an invitation to design a 2011 Christmas Pizza).

Pizz-A-Thon Lessons Are Easily Adapted To Support Learning Standard Goals In subject matter areas of:

  • earth science See “Pizza Begins-Universe Below” page added 3-31-12
  • language art
  • social studies
  • art
  • health
  • math
  • agriculture
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About pizzathon

Coordinator of the Pizz-A-Thon, an agriculture literacy program developed while I was at Iowa State University. Each year, I work with elementary level teachers and club leaders in the Quad Cities, Iowa and Cedar Rapids. The program has evolved over 15 years as a result of a Kellogg Foundation initiative “Vision 2020 Program” through Iowa State University. I was concerned that our school children did not really know the source of their food. I wanted to test an agriculture literacy (student centered experiential learning program) that interested kids. The goal…they would learn where their food came from through multidisciplinary subjects, and have fun while they learned. This goal has been accomplished through hundreds of students in the last 15 years. Sponsors help fund stipends, awards and T shirts for participating 4th-6th graders. As I look towards the future, I would like to find an individual or organization who would take leadership in continuting the program and expanding it, to help children appreciate where their food comes from, the many careers associated with the food and fiber industry and the importance of protecting the soil and water our most important resources.
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One Response to Pizza Link to Earth— Agriculture Literacy “Student Centered Learning”

  1. pizzathon says:
    November 3, 2011 at 7:27 am

    “Trace your slice of pizza to it’s origin”

    Reply

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