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committee felt the objective to
increase student awareness and
understanding of agriculture focusing
on Bruce county was a resounding
success, Dietrich said. The students
developed skills, knowledge and
values necessary to become well
informed decision makers and
consumers.
"Roots of Bruce" was months in
the making with both the Bruce -Grey
Separate Board and the Bruce County
Public Board fully endorsing the
program. The committee met with
principals, librarians, and school
board officials. As well the attending
grade 6 teachers attended one of two
agriculture workshops hosted by the
committee and presented by Bruce
Quinn, the Ontario Agri -Food
Education consultant for
southwestern Ontario. In November
each grade 6 teacher received
information and an application to
Roots of Bruce. In January there was
a followup notice and reminder to
these teachers. In March a final
newsletter was distributed to
attending schools. An agriculture
teaching unit was presented to the
teachers and followup classroom
packages were distributed to each
participating class. The teachers are
encouraged to follow up the Roots of
Bruce visit with additional class
instruction.
The teachers were asked to divide
their class into three groups to visit
one of the three buildings on the site.
The students were given colour-
coded buttons to wear to the "Roots
of Bruce" and were asked to sit in
those groups on the bus. This
enabled volunteers to easily unload
and identify students at the event.
The students visited only one of the
three buildings and this encouraged
communication skills of presentation
and communication between students
afterward in the classroom. This was
a highly time efficient program and
every second counted from unloading
the bus to loading again. The
students visited eight stations of 10
action -packed minutes each. The
final 10 minutes was a rally with all
students once again combined with
retired superintendent Joe Rys and
Fran Farrell, who wrote a song
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