Runts the Matter?

After a week of uncertainty and stress of the unknown, we made through at Solanco. This week was one of the worst weeks I've had so far. Besides the obvious, I have had a hard time motivating myself to push through when we were uncertain of so many things. I know that it is not good to lose motivation over something like the coronavirus, but I struggled to motivate myself. 

Upbeat Update

In my Ag Business course this week I decided to try something new. I had put together a learning lab with runts candy. Through the activity, students were to practice accounting skills as well as learn the cost of merchandise sold theory. Students were broke into groups of 3 or 4 then given three ziplock bags that each had a different amount of runts in them. The bags were as follows; Jan. 1 Inventory (2/3 box of runts), Purchased Inventory (1/3 box of runts), and Merchandise Sold (empty). As they performed the steps in the activity, they were to keep track of how much total inventory they had and what was sold through the year. In the end, they had to calculate their total inventory on Dec. 31 and add in leftover inventory to see if the numbers matched. The students enjoyed the hands-on activity especially when they could finally eat the runts.

Questions

• How do you keep students focused during a time of turmoil and uncertainty?
• If you had to teach Ag Mechanics courses online, how would you go about that task?