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AGsploration Teachings Share Importance of Agriculture<br />
<strong>The</strong> University of Maryland Extension<br />
staff has developed a series of agriculture<br />
lessons focusing on animals, plants, the environment<br />
and agriculture technology. <strong>The</strong><br />
22 lessons, compiled into a curriculum entitled<br />
“AGsploration: the Science of Maryland<br />
Agriculture,” feature lessons for<br />
middle school youth but can easily be<br />
adapted for younger children and adult audiences.<br />
<strong>The</strong> AGsploration curriculum is a<br />
hands-on science program through which<br />
youth learn about production agriculture,<br />
how the environment affects Maryland<br />
agriculture, and how agriculture affects<br />
their everyday lives in relation to their nutrition<br />
and health. <strong>The</strong> program ties in the<br />
science, technology, engineering and math<br />
(STEM) initiative and follows the Maryland<br />
Science Standards for grades 6-8, so it<br />
is ready for integration into public school<br />
classrooms.<br />
Numerous UME 4-H and agriculture<br />
educators served as authors of the curriculum,<br />
which was piloted in 2011 and 2012<br />
and will be revised to its final form by early<br />
2013. Pilot testing of the curriculum was<br />
conducted by UME faculty as well as<br />
trained 4-H teens. In 2011, AGsploration<br />
lessons were taught in full a total of 159<br />
times to 3,537 students; parts of AGsploration<br />
lessons were taught to an additional<br />
1,600 youth. Outreach numbers for 2012<br />
are still being tabulated. Many of these<br />
contacts can be attributed to the volunteer<br />
work conducted by the trained teen 4-H<br />
members.<br />
Alyssa McCormick and Thomas Mac-<br />
Donald, Caroline County 4-H members,<br />
taught several AGsploration lessons to children<br />
and parents attending the Maryland<br />
State Fair U-Learn Farm. During the recent<br />
Pickering Creek Harvest Hoedown located<br />
outside of Easton, <strong>Talbot</strong> and Caroline 4-H<br />
educators shared lessons focusing on soybeans,<br />
nutrition and the fats found in milk.<br />
AGsploration lessons were also presented<br />
at the UME Central Maryland Research<br />
and Education Center’s Open House at<br />
Clarksville in October.<br />
Funding for the AGsploration program<br />
has been provided by a variety of generous<br />
donors, including the Maryland Grain Producers.<br />
Funds from the Grain Producers<br />
were used to purchase supplies needed for<br />
resource kits. <strong>The</strong>se kits were provided to<br />
the Extension office in each county housing<br />
AGsploration instructors.<br />
All University of Maryland programs<br />
are “equal access/equal opportunity.” If<br />
you would like to learn more about<br />
AGsploration, please contact April Hall<br />
Barczweski, (410) 996-5280, or Sara<br />
Bhaduri-Hauck, sbh@umd.edu or (410)<br />
638-3255.<br />
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