The Rural Voice, 1985-12, Page 43FARM NEWS
teachers or students with propaganda
from the farmer's point of view.
Weitzel says she can understand
where the accusations come from, but
she counters that the group is trying
to portray an accurate picture of
agriculture to everyone.
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To introduce teachers to the many
resources available when teaching
agriculture in the classroom, displays
were set up at the Board of Educa-
tion. Carolyn Redden, a nutritionist
from the Beef Information Centre,
was on hand to show teachers some
of the material that can be used to
teach children about cattle producers
and the beef industry.
Lessons about farming come to life
in a kindergarten class. Children who
live on various types of farms share
their perspectives with each other and
with non-farm children, says Mary
Lou Taylor -Hawley, a kindergarten
teacher at South Perth Centennial
School, Rannoch.
Taylor-Hawley's four-week unit
about farming appeared in living col-
our at the Education Centre in Perth
County where the more than 80
primary school teachers from Perth
County gathered. Farm mobiles made
by the students, stories printed by
five -year-olds, and dozens of col-
oured pictures and imaginative crea-
tions exhibited the pupils' new
understanding of farming.
Taylor -Hawley cautioned teachers
that if they were using older books,
they may have to do some updating.
For example, a dairy farm was il-
lustrated in one book as using milk
cans. One of Taylor-Hawley's
kindergarten pupils, who lives on a
dairy farm, recognized the cans as
"flowerpots." She informed the class
that milk today is stored in a tank and
goes through a pipeline and onto
trucks to be taken to the dairy.
Taylor -Hawley encouraged
teachers to make the point that the
farm of the '80s is very different than
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