Kentucky Farms Feed Me Virtual Field Trips
About the Program
Want to learn more about Kentucky farmers and the food they grow? This virtual field trip series and curriculum collection bring the farms and farmers to your classrooms, learning centers, and homes.
We developed these video field trips around Kentucky Academic Standards for Career Studies in Career Exploration and Financial Literacy. Students will learn more about local food and farmers so they can make informed decisions about food choices. Students will also learn about the daily work of farmers and get a glimpse of skills needed for farming, food processing, and business management. In addition, we have developed a curriculum program that ties in additional Academic Standards for science, social studies, math and language arts. There are ten field trips in all. You may watch them here, or download the files for viewing anywhere.
Sponsors & Partners
Kentucky Farms Feed Me Virtual Field Trip Series is a program of the Kentucky Corn Growers Association. They allowed us distribution rights and the ability to create curriculum that help teachers meet their education goals. The original field trips were created in 2011.
A new series of videos were released in 2020 thanks to support from the Kentucky Agricultural Development Fund, Kentucky Farm Bureau/KFB Studios, and our Kentucky Agriculture and Environment in the Classroom members.
Teaching Suggestions
Lesson Plans & Companion Activities by Grade-Level:
Please make a copy of any of the Google Drive files so you can manipulate them.
Learn how to use this program in your classroom - recording of our PD Workshop
STUDENT PASSPORTS
These passport booklets are a great way for students to journal what they learned in each video:
Learn about agriculture in your county!
Find your county data and farm profiles. Most counties also have a farm profile included. Suggest a farm to profile by emailing us at info@teachkyag.org.
Have students fill out this worksheet about their county - Ag Where I Live
Also, see our new DATA, CHART, AND MAPS collection of activities.
More Community/State Connections
PRIMARY - How Does My Community Provide What I Need? - This digital presentation is a great place to start teaching the role of farmers in the community and the differences between wants and needs.
INTERMEDIATE & SECONDARY - My Kentucky Home Provides What I Need - This multi-part lesson teaches why Kentucky farmers raise specific crops and livestock in different geographical regions.
The Field Trips
New Activity - Create a Kentucky Farm
Students will use what they learned from watching the virtual field trips to create their dream farm on 100 acres. They may use the artistic stamps available to fill their grid, draw their own, or use a mixture of the two. There is also a writing activity on the back where students must explain how their farm will help their community and become a successful business.