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Larson, Jan – Clearing, 1997
Describes several gardening activities that can be kept simple or used as a foundation for more in-depth projects. Activities include setting up an indoor garden spot, making compost which helps students understand the terms "decompose" and "compost", watching plants drink in which students measure water movement in plants, making herb gardens,…
Descriptors: Botany, Elementary Secondary Education, Environmental Education, Gardening
Trexler, Cary, Ed. – Agricultural Education Magazine, 2000
Nine theme articles focus on the need for students to be conversationally literate about agriculture, food, fiber, and natural resources systems. Discusses the definition of conversational literacy, the human and institutional resources needed, and exemplary models for promoting literacy. (JOW)
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Consumer Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
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Coffey, Ann – Green Teacher, 2001
Considers factors that affect the fate of schoolyard trees and focuses on the importance of what is considered during tree selection. Includes of list of characteristics of tree projects that have a low survival rate. (DDR)
Descriptors: Conservation (Environment), Elementary Secondary Education, Environmental Education, Ornamental Horticulture
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Markwell, John; Blevins, Dale – American Biology Teacher, 1999
Describes the operation of the Minolta SPAD-502 Leaf Chlorophyll meter. Presents five sample activities for using this technology in high school or college science classes. (WRM)
Descriptors: Agronomy, Biology, Botany, High Schools
Growing Ideas, 2001
Describes hands-on science areas that focus on trees. A project on leaf pigmentation involves putting crushed leaves in a test tube with solvent acetone to dissolve pigment. In another project, students learn taxonomy by sorting and classifying leaves based on observable characteristics. Includes a language arts connection. (PVD)
Descriptors: Botany, Elementary Education, Environmental Education, Gardening
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Goff, Kathy – Educational Gerontology, 2004
Senior to Senior: Living Lessons is a program created to provide meaningful horticulture therapy activities for community minority elders (60 years of age and older) and senior college students (20 years of age and older) from an Historically Black University. The program's objectives were to promote positive intergenerational relationships and to…
Descriptors: Higher Education, College Students, Minority Groups, Horticulture
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Ramasubramanian, Srividya; Gyure, James F.; Mursi, Nasreen M. – Journal of Marketing for Higher Education, 2002
Institutions of higher education are increasingly becoming dependent on Web-based marketing to reach out to their target audiences. The current empirical study examines the types of impressions formed by prospective students based on exposure to different university Web site images. A between-subjects experiment was conducted using four identical…
Descriptors: Web Sites, Visual Aids, Higher Education, Student Recruitment
Park, Joohun – PEB Exchange, 2003
This article describes two projects which Korea has undertaken to improve its school grounds: (1) the Green School Project; and (2) the School Forest Pilot Project. The Korean Ministry of Education and Human Resources Development (MOE&HRI) recently launched the Green School Project centred on existing urban schools with poor outdoor…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Environment, Labor Force Development, Urban Schools
Soomro, Safeeullah, Ed. – InTech, 2010
Since many decades Education Science and Technology has an achieved tremendous recognition and has been applied to variety of disciplines, mainly Curriculum development, methodology to develop e-learning systems and education management. Many efforts have been taken to improve knowledge of students, researchers, educationists in the field of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Distance Education, Instructional Design, Higher Education
Mississippi Research and Curriculum Unit for Vocational and Technical Education, State College. – 1996
This document, which reflects Mississippi's statutory requirement that instructional programs be based on core curricula and performance-based assessment, contains outlines of the instructional units required in local instructional management plans and daily lesson plans for horticulture I and II. Presented first are a program description and…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Agricultural Education, Agricultural Production, Behavioral Objectives
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Mississippi Research and Curriculum Unit for Vocational and Technical Education, State College. – 1996
This document, which is intended for use by community and junior colleges throughout Mississippi, contains curriculum frameworks for the course sequences in the horticulture technology programs cluster. Presented in the introductory section are a framework of programs and courses, description of the programs, and suggested course sequences for…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Agricultural Production, Behavioral Objectives, Careers
Pepple, Jerry – 1988
This document contains four publications for agricultural occupations in Illinois. "Task Lists for Agricultural Occupations" provide lists of employability skills for the following: park aide; hand sprayer; gardener/groundskeeper; salesperson, parts, agricultural equipment; and dairy processing equipment operator. Each list contains skills…
Descriptors: Adult Programs, Agribusiness, Agricultural Chemical Occupations, Agricultural Education
Ethridge, Jim; And Others – 1981
These units of instructional materials and teaching aids are the final three of a series of eight designed for use in rural agriculture programs for students in grades 9 and 10. Covered in the unit on soil science and conservation of natural resources are collecting soil samples and applying soil sample test results. Growing vegetables and…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Agricultural Engineering, Agricultural Skills, Agronomy
Ohio State Univ., Columbus. Agricultural Education Curriculum Materials Service. – 1999
This document contains materials about and from a workshop that was conducted to help Ohio horticulture teachers learn to document student competence through effective performance assessments. The document begins with background information about the workshop and a list of workshop objectives. Presented next is a key to the 40 performance…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Agricultural Education, Basic Skills, Behavioral Objectives
Jahnigen, Charlie – American School & University, 2006
As interest in green building grows, much discussion has focused on aligning a project with the principles of Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification: (1) cost savings through energy and water conservation; (2) improved worker productivity; (3) health, insurance and risk-management benefits; and (4) enhanced building…
Descriptors: Certification, Water Quality, Productivity, National Standards
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