UF Experts Help Bring Agriculture To Classrooms

August 1, 2005
Topic(s): Uncategorized

By:
Patti Bartlett (352) 392-1773 x 276

Source(s):
Lisa Gaskalla LBGaskalla@ifas.ufl.edu, (352) 846-1391
Monica Brinkley MLBrinkley@ifas.ufl.edu, (850) 643-2229
Cyanne Williams crwilliams53@aol.com, (352) 495- 2111
Larry Arrington lra@ifas.ufl.edu, (352) 392-1761

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GAINESVILLE, Fla.—To help Florida schoolchildren understand farming and its impact on their lives, University of Florida experts are contributing to a statewide program that enables teachers to incorporate agricultural education in a variety of courses.

Florida Agriculture in the Classroom, or FAITC, offers free or nominally priced materials suitable for students from pre-K to through grade 12 to public and private school teachers, said Lisa Gaskalla, executive director of the program. Although the program is housed at UF’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, or UF/IFAS, it is an independent organization funded by sales of the agriculture specialty license plate, and supported by UF/IFAS, Florida agriculture industry organizations and the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services. (more…)