Learning Objectives
- Summarize the importance of the Land Grant University system; protecting natural resources and promoting education of all citizens.
- Understand the important technologies and scientific contributions of Land Grant and 1890s institutions to modern agricultural practice.
- Define modern day history of Agriculture, specifically in the U.S. and the SouthEast region.
Background
Leaders please review the following information/weblinks:
1. Cooperative Extension History
2. Growing Nation
Materials and Resources
1. Growing Nation (*see panel from time period 1600-1929, Agriculture in Early America as it will be covered in session 5)
2. Printed SC commodity maps commodity_map
3. Climate and Soil
4. South Carolina Farm Bureau-farm facts
Opening Activity: ~15 minutes
15 min
1. Guest speaker interview, Mrs. Deon Legette, on Land Grants and Extension.
*Please FF to the 8-second mark to the start of the interview
2. Introduce learners to the extension website page as a start and list of potential careers in agriculture they may be interested in for discussion for the following week.
Content Lesson and Activities: ~60 minutes
40 min
Spend some time exploring the growing nation website. Use the questions from the timeline panels to prompt informal group discussion: https://growinganation.org/
20 min
History of South Carolina Agriculture Lesson Title: What does the future hold?SC4HHistoryofAgLesson(1)
Closing Activity: ~15 minutes
Journal Reflection: Of all the careers in the cooperative extension service that were discussed today, which ones are you interested in learning more about?
Source:
South Carolina 4-H Youth Development, Clemson University
SC Farm Bureau