HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1998-03-18, Page 63Dairy story comes to classrooms
Ontario elementary
school students
will soon be invit-
ed to put on their thinking
caps to design automatic
cow washes and create fic-
tional computer software
to help manage a dairy
farm.
These are just a couple
of the activities designed
to get Grade 4, 5 and 6
students thinking and
learning about milk pro-
duction in Dairy Farmers
of Ontario's (DFO) new
teachers' resource, Milk:
From Farm to Fridge.
DFO will provide each
of Ontario's 4,000 elemen-
tary schools with its own
copy.
In Huron County, Dairy
Educator Michelle
Whitely, has already deliv-
ered them to Robertson
Deanna Lynch, Ryan Schultz and Tanya
Overholt are shown with Huron County Dairy
Educator Michelle Whitely. The Dairy Farmers
of Ontario's new teachers' resource, Milk: From
Farm to Fridge, is now being placed in all ele-
mentary schools in the province. (Hilgendorff
photo)
and Victoria schools in
Goderich. However,
Whitely says the onus is
upon the school to contact
her if they are interested.
Subjects covered
include the steps milk and
dairy products go through
in processing, careers in
the dairy industry, the
technology used in all
aspects of milk process-
ing, animal care and the
environment, and nutrition
principles.
The bilingual kit
includes a poster. five
study prints and a teachers'
manual with suggested
activities.
When Andre Renaud,
the kit's author, was
approached to work on the
project, he 'liked the idea
immediately. The topic of
milk production lends
itself to teaching,analysis
and student discovery, he
says. As well, the students
are studying nature. with
processing as an extension
of what the cow produces.
The complexity of the
interconnected production
system helps to make the
subject a good study tool,
says Renaud.
Activities don't have to
be done in any particular
order and each has been
designed to stand on its
own. "Teachers should
really feel free to pick and
choose and use what they
want to use," says Renaud.
The kit incorporates a
variety of difficulty levels.
Some topics are best treat-
ed at the Grade 6 level and
would be challenging for
Grade 4 students, says
Renaud.
Canadian Agriculture
eh; O.K. says survey
The results are in and
they are encouraging. A
detailed poll to determine
the public's understanding
of the agriculture and agri-
food sector was recently
completed. The survey
results are based on a
national sample of 2,215
interviews conducted with
Canadians from each of
the provinces and territo-
ries in proportion to popu-
lation.
About two-thirds of the
respondents perceive
Canada as a world leader
in the production of nutri-
ents, sate tood products.
Results also show a major-
ity of respondents agree
the agriculture sector con-
tributes to the quality of
life and high standards of
living enjoyed by most
Canadians.
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