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4-26-2005 |
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WVDA HELPS TEACHERS LEARN ABOUT WATER Employees from the West Virginia Department of Agriculture (WVDA) recently participated in Project WET (Water Education for Teachers), a nonprofit water education program and publisher for educators and young people ages 5 to 18. The program was held April 6 at the South Branch Inn in Moorefield. Its goal was to provide educators with knowledge and classroom-ready teaching materials designed to promote awareness of the importance of water to the ecosystem and human society. "I am proud of the Department's involvement with Project WET," said Commissioner of Agriculture Gus R. Douglass. "The waters of West Virginia are one of its most valuable resources, and we will see more and more demands upon those resources from within our state and from other states that use the rivers that originate here. We must work to educate everyone about the value of this resource and what we can all do to protect our water resources." The program was sponsored by the WVDA and West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection (WVDEP). WVDA handled logistics, including "Taste of West Virginia" snacks, and WVDEP personnel conducted the training sessions. Thirty-two individuals went through the training, including teachers, Extension agents, 4-H leaders, West Virginia Conservation Agency staff and WVDA staff. WVDA also provided an information packet with coloring books, cookbooks, Chesapeake Bay Program educational materials and a variety of other brochures. "The turnout for the meeting was very good and everyone had positive feedback about the training," said Kriston Strickler, a WVDA microbiologist who attended the session. "The educators loved the manual, which has 80 or so experiments and activities for students from kindergarten to high school. Most said the materials were definitely something they were going to use in the classroom and at summer camps."
The West Virginia Department of Agriculture protects plant, animal and human health through a variety of scientific, regulatory and consumer protection programs, as mandated by state law. The Commissioner of Agriculture is one of six statewide elected officials in West Virginia. Currently, Commissioner Gus R. Douglass is the longest-serving agriculture commissioner in the nation. For more information, visit www.wvagriculture.org. |
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