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'Ag Science lets you 'eat, drink and be merry'. Find out some of the hows and whys!' |
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Hands-on, minds-on activities that will put the 'merry' back into learning Science for students. Simple experiments that you can easily replicate at low cost to teach concepts such as calorific value so students understand just what they are eating. Water is our most precious, threatened and underappreciated resource. Learn more about what we and plants drink. You will see how to access your local USDA/Agricultural Research Service (ARS) research lab and scientists as an educational resource and leave with a template for students to complete to see what they need to do to enjoy a career in Agricultural Science. Workshop Session (all workshops will be one hour) | |
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Dr. Craig Wilson USDA/ARS & Texas A&M University 512-636-9031 cwilson@science.tamu.edu Dr. Wilson collaborates with Farm Bureaus of TX, AR, OK, KY & TN. He was born in Carrickfergus, Northern Ireland Grew up in England and attended Oxford University. He met his Texan wife in Iceland and they had their three children in The Kalahari Desert in Botswana, Africa. His office is in the USDA Building in College Station, alongside which has been created a USDA People’s Garden complete with Monarch Waystation (butterfly garden), pond and ‘Texas pocket prairie’ where students are able to spend a day working on science activities. He has taught for forty-six years on three continents in situations ranging from beneath a huge thorn tree on the edge of the Kalahari Desert to experimenting with weightlessness on NASA’s KC-135. He has worked with teachers in all fifty states and has taught in 36 states, including Hawaii, Alaska and Puerto Rico. He currently is Director of the USDA Future Scientists Program. |
Baron Bartels Texas Farm Bureau 254-751-2608 bbartels@txfb.org Baron Bartels is a graduate of Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas. He currently works for Texas Farm Bureau as Associate Director Urban Relations and is heavily involved in running a series of 15 science teacher summer workshops across Texas. The focus is on promoting Ag in the Classroom (AITC) hands-on activities with K-8 teachers. He has helped to refine and develop the Texas Farm Bureau (TFB) Harvest Experience simulator. TFB’s Harvest Experience simulator debuted during the Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo as part of the Planet Agriculture exhibit in the Ag-Ven¬ture building. Visitors enter the 360-degree simu¬lator and sit in an actual cab of a com¬bine. Video screens surround the cab and show footage of a combine rolling through a corn field, harvesting the crop and dropping the shelled kernels into the grain bin in the back. Baron was interviewed and quoted as saying: “Throughout the first week of the Houston show, visitors to Planet Ag¬riculture have reacted very positively about the addition of the Harvest Expe¬rience trailer. For many of our visitors, this is their first interaction with a com¬bine, and they come away amazed by the process it takes to harvest corn.” “As an organization, we felt it was important to invest in an interactive resource for consumers to understand how their food and fiber are harvested,” Bartels said. He invests a lot of his own time and energy in supporting science teachers. |