Remember “I hear, I forget — I see, I learn”?
When your students play REAP with The Farming Game, they see how money flows through business transactions. They track their business through double-entry accounting to generate financial statements. The proof of their progress in the game is their record keeping, just like in the real world.
You’ll find that REAP with The Farming Game is a valuable simulation tool that encourages your students to wrestle with issues that face business managers every day: planning, decision-making, accounting and analysis. It’s the perfect complement to any economics or business class-and a great way to help your students learn business by doing, instead of by rote.
“It works!,” says Neil Knobloch, “In my 7 years of teaching high school, this is the only unit that students started class on their own before the bell rang.” Other teachers and students have shared that it works for them, too. Please send us your comments and we’ll add them to the list.
Testimonials
“The REAP teacher’s guide to THE FARMING GAME is awesome. Together they provide a fun and engaging way to teach students about the fundamental business concepts of agriculture…the economic backbone of our economy. These universal business lessons in REAP on management and accounting theory are contained in a very user-friendly format. REAP looks and feels accessible. Used in an educational context, REAP provides the rigorous structural template and lesson plan and THE FARMING GAME provides the life and fun behind those numbers, placing each student in their own entrepreneurial adventure as they play the game.” (George Rohrbacher, Inventor of The Farming Game)
“This should be used in every ag. classroom. Awesome math and business development.” (Dr. Travis Park, Cornell University)
“My students really liked it! Reap is an outstanding method to teach double-entry accounting. It is very thorough, yet down to earth way to teach…the hands-on approach made it seem real.” (Jeff Maierhofer, Agriculture Teacher at Seneca High School in Illinois & 2006 President of National Association of Agricultural Educators)
“Extremely true to life! I have owned the game for years and have always thought it was a ‘real’ representation of what a farmer has to face. The addition of Reap with double-entry accounting methods is excellent. I’ve been a farm loan officer for 27 years and I even learned something.” (Chris Phelps, Loan Officer & Senior Vice-President of First National Bank,
“Very ‘real-life’ in an entertaining, competitive format. Great way to create a felt need in learning business management and decision-making.” (Tony Stoller, Agriculture Teacher,
“Reap with The Farming Game is the learning tool I wish I could have experienced in school to learn basic concepts about business, economics and accounting. Reap with The Farming Game is a great way to make the learning of these concepts come alive in the classroom, and a great way to foster the entrepreneurial spirit in our Country’s future farm and business leaders. The students who are privileged to use this program will undoubtedly one day Reap the benefits.” (
“This is a powerful tool to teach real-world business realities. The game includes the initial planning and set-up of a business, right through to the harvest and follow-up celebration. Terrific!” (Marilyn Rockwell, Career Choices Teacher,
“Reap was fun being able to create a farm and trying making money. It was fun trying to have the biggest farm and trying to have more money than others at the end.” (Cory S., High School Student,
“I like Reap because it gets you ready for the real world.” (Travis N., High School Student,
“The competition really made us want to make the most money.” (Ben V.T., High School Student,