Professional Development
Agriculture Education: Food, Land, and People
Agriculture Education using Food, Land and People lessons are used in this hands-on, content oriented education workshop. The mission is to provide resources and to promote inquiry based approaches to learning. The hands-on lesson activities and additional language arts literature helps educators and students in grades K-12 understand the interdependence between agriculture, the environment and people. The Food, Land and People curriculum is disseminated through the Pennsylvania Department of Education. All participants in the FLP workshops receive the curriculum and Act 48 credit. From Apple Cores to Healthy Soil |
 Be Able Label |
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 Don't Use It All Up |
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 Perc Through The Pores |
LiveText Workshop
The LiveText workshop provides a computer based format for teachers to
develop, share and publish their lessons and projects.
K'NEX Education
Learning to use manipulatives from K'NEX Education sets provides teaching techniques, skills, and meaningful hands-on activities for classroom instruction in multiple disciplines.
 Engineering Design - Building Bridges |
 Biology - DNA |
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 Science - Solar Energy |
 Mathematics - Geometry |
Old Growth Forest Delineation
Allegheny Valley teachers participated in an Old Growth Forest Delineation workshop in Cook Forest State Park, Cook Forest, PA.
 Looking at the ecosystem |
 Compiling data on characteristics of old growth vs. young growth ecosystems |
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 Teachers use a Biltmore stick to measure and estimate the number of board feet in a tree |
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Wetlands Workshop
A Wetlands workshop held in Cook Forest State Park and Allegheny National Forest at Buzzards Swamp gave teachers on site experience in identifying wetland soils, plants, grasses, animals and boundaries.
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