Showing posts with label teachers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label teachers. Show all posts
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Optimism despite concerns about economy, world issues
John Wise describes himself as "barely making it." And he's OK with that. "I'm an optimist," said Wise, a horticulture teacher. It's one of many jobs he has, he explains. He propagates and sells rare and other plants and consults on garden-design projects. "I've been this way for 30 years, on the edge for 30 years. My wife is a starving artist. And horticulture in Virginia does not pay. You have to love to be in the business." Read more:
Friday, June 26, 2009
Teachers learn how to teach agriculture
Lessons aim to help students think about their sources of food
By Noreen S. Ahmed-Ullah Tribune reporter
June 26, 2009
Kids might bite into a strawberry topped with whipped cream, but few know how the fruit grows or how to pick it.Similarly, the "Got milk?" ad campaign emphasizes the benefits of drinking milk, but how many kids know that the average cow produces 90 gallons or more of the white stuff a day? Or that a pig farm can birth 75 to 80 piglets a week?
Teachers such as Gail Sanders want to change how young people think about farming and food, if they do at all, and learned some ways during a four-day course offered through Aurora University and the DuPage County Farm Bureau. Sanders, an 8th-grade science instructor at Monroe Middle School in Wheaton, plans to use some of the plant propagation techniques she was shown during a field trip to Cantigny Park in Wheaton.
"There are so many things our kids in the suburbs don't know about how we get food on the table," she said, adding that most of her students had never seen a strawberry plant when she took one to class last spring.
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By Noreen S. Ahmed-Ullah Tribune reporter
June 26, 2009
Kids might bite into a strawberry topped with whipped cream, but few know how the fruit grows or how to pick it.Similarly, the "Got milk?" ad campaign emphasizes the benefits of drinking milk, but how many kids know that the average cow produces 90 gallons or more of the white stuff a day? Or that a pig farm can birth 75 to 80 piglets a week?
Teachers such as Gail Sanders want to change how young people think about farming and food, if they do at all, and learned some ways during a four-day course offered through Aurora University and the DuPage County Farm Bureau. Sanders, an 8th-grade science instructor at Monroe Middle School in Wheaton, plans to use some of the plant propagation techniques she was shown during a field trip to Cantigny Park in Wheaton.
"There are so many things our kids in the suburbs don't know about how we get food on the table," she said, adding that most of her students had never seen a strawberry plant when she took one to class last spring.
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Monday, June 22, 2009
Teachers Taught
Saturday, Jun. 20, 2009Topics: Food processing and farming
By John Holland
jholland@modbee.com
Photo: (JOHN HOLLAND / jholland@modbee.com) - Workers sort apricots at the Del Monte cannery in Modesto on Thursday (06-18-09).
With school out for summer, it was time to head for the cannery.
These weren't students with summer jobs processing fruit. They were teachers touring the Del Monte Foods plant in Modesto.
It was part of a four-day program held this week in which 10 teachers learned about farming and food processing in the Northern San Joaquin Valley.
"I just wanted to tie in agriculture to our science studies and have the kids relate to what's around them," said Stefanie Wedde, a science teacher at Livingston Middle School.
The program was sponsored by the organizers of the Ag Science Center, an interactive museum planned at Modesto Junior College.
The teachers learned about soil, genetics, nutrition and other topics. They dropped by the Modesto Certified Farmers Market and the Loretelli Farms produce stand.
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