Ag Teacher's Resource
Kit
Prepared by Dr. Carol
Lehtola, University of Florida
(This document available at www.flagsafe.ufl.edu)
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The Ag Teacher's Resource Kit
was developed a couple of years ago for majors in the University
of Florida's Agricultural Education and Communication Department.
It was first presented to them before they went out for their
first teaching assignments. The Kit has now become a standard
part of the course Special Methods in Teaching Agriculture.
Students are presented with
the materials assembled in a 3" binder. A 2-hour block of
time is allocated where the contents are described and reviewed.
Recommendations or examples are also discussed for how the materials
can be used in the classroom.
The Kit has also been used
as the basis of a workshop for teachers already in the field.
In summer 2005, a 2-day workshop was held at the University of
Florida for middle, junior and senior high school teachers. In
addition to distributing and presenting the kit, attendees actually
worked through several of the activities as if they were students.
The resources listed on this
page are available for download from the Web. Use these links
to make your own "Safety Resource Kit" notebook. Our
workshop participants have noted that it is very useful to have
these items assembled in one place. You can then adapt these
materials for use in your program, e.g., to meet requirements
for core competencies.
Resources are listed with a
brief annotation about their contents. In order to make it easier
to assemble a kit, links are also provided for a cover and an
update or new materials page.
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Rob Brown, Carol J. Lehtola
and Charles M. Brown
Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Gainesville, Florida.
September 2002.
In this publication, lead author
Rob Brown, Pasco County Florida Ag Educator, shares the tool
that he developed for teachers to use to provide safety rules
and requirements in their classrooms, land labs and shops.
It outlines a safety packet
that youth in Pasco County Florida agriculture courses are required
to complete before taking classes. This packet must be read and
signed by both the student and his/her parents/guardians so that
everyone is aware of what they will be working with and equally
aware of the safety attitude that is needed. This packet can
be helpful for other schools to use as a guide for developing
a safety commitment packet. This model was approved by the Pasco
County School Board as well as their legal counsel.
An outline of the safety commitment
is presented followed by the full content of the Pasco County
packet.
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Barrett Keene and Carol J.
Lehtola
Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Gainesville, Florida.
May 2005
This publication describes
a week's worth of safety-related activities to help engage agricultural
students in a week-long discussion of agricultural safety. Students
will identify hazards, both at school and at home. They will
also learn about the impact of agriculture-related injuries,
illnesses and death.
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Carol J. Lehtola and Charles
M. Brown
Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Gainesville, Florida.
September 2002
This publication describes
important ag safety resources which can be accessed over the
World Wide Web. It is provided in the kit since it contains listings
of resources that may not be contained in the kit. This 4-page
fact sheet is a nice hand-out for summarizing ag safety resources.
The last page provides a bookmark with key ag safety Web sites.
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Deborah B. Reed and Pamela
S. Kidd
University of Kentucky. October 2002 (updated 2006)
This complete curriculum package
is designed for use in the classroom. This curriculum consists
of four units (amputation, spinal cord injury, hearing loss,
and farmer's lung) that can be used as either stand-alone units
or a total package. The focus of the curriculum is to use the
concept of disability to teach injury prevention and safety behavior
while completing farm work. Because of developmental issues,
teens are less likely to react to a threat of injury or death
but are more responsive to avoiding disability and a change in
body image. Each unit contains enough information for teachers
to be adequately prepared to instruct their students without
additional research or reading. Teachers are encouraged to think
about their individual class structure and customize the unit
to make it more realistic and appealing.
The AgDare
hearing-loss prevention video can be viewed on NASD.
The Resource Kit contained
only the Table of Contents and Web address for the AgDare materials.
The AgDare materials alone take up a 3" binder.
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Several videos can be viewed
on-line in their entirety. These include cattle handling safety,
hearing loss, tractor safety, etc. Be Safe and Sound Says Safety
Hound has tips for visiting a farm. It is especially geared towards
kids going on field trips etc. and who have not been on a farm
before. The number of videos continues to increase.
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Safety News and Notes
Carol J. Lehtola, editor
Florida AgSafe Program, Gainesville, Florida
This monthly e-newsletter contains
current information and developments for agricultural safety
- as well as other relevant safety tips. All issues are archived
on www.flagsafe.ufl.edu.
If you want to be added to the list send a note to Carol
J. Lehtola.
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Carol J. Lehtola and Charles
M. Brown
Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Gainesville, Florida
This publication is similar
to the Employer's Resources fact sheet described earlier except
it targets small farmers. It describes important safety resources
which can be accessed over the World Wide Web. It is provided
in the kit because it contains listings of resources that may
not be contained in the kit. This 4-page fact sheet is a nice
hand-out for summarizing ag safety resources. The last page provides
a bookmark with key ag safety Web sites.
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Tailgate Training Topics in
the National Agricultural Safety Database (NASD)
The Ohio State University Ag Safety
Program
Tailgate training fact sheets
are designed for a brief safety training session. There are many
topics which can be used for teaching students. Most include
a short quiz. These are great resources for the class room. They
are in English and Spanish.
Kansas State University -- Ag Engineering
Safety Lesson Plans
The lesson plans in this series
are boiled down to the essentials. They are ideal for tailgate
training opportunities.
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Hank Cole, et al University
of Kentucky. April 2002 with updates in 2006
The materials and activities
in this notebook present stories and facts about tractor overturn
injuries and deaths, their terrible costs, and their prevention
by retrofitting older tractors with ROPS and seat belts or by
replacing older tractors without ROPS with newer ones equipped
with ROPS and seat belts. The materials also include facts about
injury and death to second riders when they fall from tractors
and are run over by the tractor or its trailing equipment. Strategies
and actions to prevent these injury events are presented.
*Just the table of contents
and access information for the program were included in the kit.
The entire materials would require a 3" binder.
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Hank Cole, et al. University
of Kentucky. April 2002 with revisions in 2006
This section of the notebook
contains several simulation exercises. All require the user to
interact with a developing story, its characters, plots, and
predicaments. The user must make choices among alternative decisions
and note the consequences of these choices. The simulations are
most effective when used in small groups of from two to four
individuals who collaborate during the activity. These are excellent
for use in the classroom. Examples of topics include tractor
overturns, extra riders, tractor and motor vehicle collisions,
horseback riding, kids visiting a farm, etc.
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Carol J. Lehtola and Charles
M. Brown
Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Gainesville, Florida.
September 2002
A series of publications of
Safer Tractor Operations was developed for different professions
and operators. This publication provides links to the Safer Tractor
Operation series and also to separate fact sheets related to
tractor safety.
Audiences include employers,
employees, private farms and ranches, home and acreage owners,
landscape maintenance and hort industries, and emergency personnel.
Additional Resources
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The Occupational Safety and
Health Administration (OSHA) has generated standards for many
aspects of workplace safety, including the agricultural workplace.
These standards are the law. OSHA applies to all employers in
the United States, but businesses with 10 or fewer employees
are exempt from some reporting requirements. We have selected
some OSHA standards that apply to agriculture. This does not
include every standard that might apply to any particular business,
but it's enough to get started with!
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Farm Safety and Health Week...
Not Just for Farmers Anymore (Motor Vehicles and Farm Machinery
on Roadways)
National Safety Council. September
2002
These are fact sheets that
provide information about the interaction of tractors and motor
vehicles on the public roadways. Little information is available
for motorists about the hazards posed by farm vehicles on the
roads. These are written both for tractor operators as well as
the general public motorist.
Farm Safety and Health Week...
Not Just for Farmers Anymore brochures:
Additional Resources
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Carol J. Lehtola and Charles
M. Brown
Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Gainesville, Florida.
February 2001
Parents strive to make their
homes as safe as possible for children, but children can face
life-threatening dangers literally 'in their own backyards.'
Yards, garages, work areas, barns, etc. may present situations
which would not endanger an adult, but can be deadly to a child.
These situations occur not only on farms but also in cities and
suburbs and on acreages. This publication provides examples of
hazards and possible solutions. This could spur ideas for student
projects to be done at home.
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Carol J. Lehtola and Charles
M. Brown
Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Gainesville, Florida.
May 2000
An estimated 33,000 children
incur farm-related injuries each year in the U.S. Over 100 of
these children die as a result of their injuries. Most of these
injuries result from the direct involvement of children in farm
work, and the saddest part is -- as most of us know -- many of
these injuries and deaths could have been prevented.
Children on farms often become
involved in farm work based on factors such as their physical
size, the sheer need for additional labor, what the parents did
when they were children, or the insistence of the child. As a
result, many children are injured because they are not physically,
intellectually, or emotionally ready for specific tasks. Age
is no guarantee; the majority of children injured on the farm
are older adolescents, who, because of their rapidly changing
bodies can be much clumsier at 15 than at 12. Also, teenagers
may feel they are more capable and less vulnerable, and therefore
take more inappropriate risks. Armed with simple information
such as this, parents can make better decisions about when and
where children can work. This fact sheet summarizes the 60+ guidelines
that have been developed.
Additional Resources
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Rhythm of the Seasons Video
Carol J. Lehtola, producer
Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Gainesville, Florida,
2003. 24 min.
This video, based on the book
by Marilyn Adams can be viewed on NASD. The book and/or video
can be used to put faces on the statistics. This can have a powerful
impact on students.
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Carol J. Lehtola
Florida AgSafe Program, Gainesville, Florida
This worksheet helps students
focus on their reading of "Rhythm of the Seasons" and
the impact it may have on their life and safety attitudes.
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Carol J. Lehtola and Charles
M. Brown
Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Gainesville, Florida.
May 2003.
This lesson plan can be used
in the classroom or for a community event.
The Rhythm of the Seasons/IMBY
lesson plan is designed as the basis for the IMBY Farm and Home
Hazard Workshop. IMBY stands for "In My Back Yard"
-- that is where safety should begin. The lesson plan gives direction
for the educational part of the workshop. The mechanics of planning,
organizing and publicizing the workshop are covered in a companion
publication, "Toolkit
for Implementing a Community-Based 'IMBY' Safety Event"
(CIR 1438). The major activity of the event is the IMBY Farm
and Home Hazard Hunt, in which participants develop a personalized
action plan to eliminate hazards in their work or home environment.
This lesson is built around
the video, "Rhythm of the Seasons: A Journey beyond Loss"
(UF/IFAS Video SV125). In the video, Marilyn Adams tells the
true story of the loss of her 11-year-old son in a farm-related
incident. Viewers are introduced to the son, the circumstances
of his death, and the mother's first year of recovery. In this
way, the audience learns about the grief and other experiences
that accompanied this tragedy, and they also share in the inner
world of the mother's healing as she finds a sense of purpose
through this sad situation.
The video fosters interest
and receptivity about this very serious topic, creating a "teachable
moment" which provides an opportunity for general discussion
by attendees or for use of the lesson plan described in this
publication. Either way, the program should be planned such that
attendees can take home with them an IMBY action plan that they
can implement at their own farm or place of residence.
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Carol J. Lehtola
Course materials for UF course "Safety in Agriculture"
(AOM 3073)
This assignment requires students
to do a hazard identification walk-about. In the UF Safety class,
students are given a section of campus to explore and identity
a given number of hazards. This proves to be eye-opening in the
sense that things they have walked around hundreds of times before
without a second thought are now seen from the perspective about
how the unsafe factor could lead to an injury. Students could
do this in their school or at their home.
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Reaction
Time Activity
(worksheet, display sheets, and instructor sheet)
Carol J. Lehtola
These materials allow students
to test the speed of their reactions. Students attempt to "beat
the clock" and record their reaction times. They can compare
these times to worksheets that show how many revolutions of a
machine would have occurred in the time it took them to react.
They can also learn about stopping distances when reacting to
roadway hazards.
Reaction timers for use with
this exercise are available from commercial suppliers and as
software downloads you can run on a computer.
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Carol J. Lehtola
Course materials for UF course "Safety in Agriculture"
(AOM 3073)
In this lab exercise, students
are introduced to a wide variety of Personal Protective Equipment
(PPE) as well as many hazards. Proper use of a fire extinguisher
is also covered.
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Carol J. Lehtola
Course materials for UF course
"Safety in Agriculture" (AOM 3073)
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Carol J. Lehtola
Florida AgSafe, Gainesville, Florida. May 2005
This module was developed specifically
for middle and high school students. It includes varying levels
of activities for the different age groups that are being taught.
Additional Resources
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Carol J. Lehtola and Charles
M. Brown
Florida AgSafe, Gainesville, Florida. May 2005
This game is formatted like
the popular game show and is useful for presenting safety information
in a fun and different way.
Additional Resources
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The information contained in
NASD was contributed by safety professionals and organizations
from across the nation. Specifically, the objectives of the NASD
project are:
- to provide a national resource
for the dissemination of information
- to educate workers and managers
about occupational hazards associated with agriculture-related
injuries, deaths and illnesses
- to provide prevention information
- to promote the consideration
of safety and health issues in agricultural operations
- to provide a convenient way
for members of the agricultural safety and health community to
share educational and research materials with their colleagues
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This site is designed to provide
educational information for making the agricultural workplace
safer and healthier. This site also contains materials relevant
for disasters and emergency situations. These materials can be
found under the heading "Emergency Resources".
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SAFE-T-KAP stands for "Safe
Actions For Everyone Thru Knowledge, Awareness, and Practice."
Use this colorful certificate to reward students, trainees, or
workshop participants, and to remind them to use safe practices
in all their tasks. (Sorry -- actual "SAFE-T-KAP" safety
caps are not available!)
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