Name: Agriculture: An Awe-full and Wonder-full Way to Teach and Learn
Start: 2025-02-13T11:45:00-0700
End: 2025-02-13T12:45:00-0700

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Morning Selections 7:30 - 11:00 (Hall B) :
Slice of Banana or Zucchini bread (vegetarian) $3.25, Fruit to go cups (vegan/gluten free) $3.25 Yogurt Parfait Cup (vegetarian) $ 3.25

Beverages Selection:
Bottled Water $4.00
Soft Drinks $3.50
Canned Juices $3.50
Starbucks Coffee (12oz) $3.00

Concession/Collaboration Lounge - Lunch Specials 11:00 - 15:00 (Hall B) :
Old Fashioned Ham, tuna & egg Salad sandwich $5.00
Bistro Sandwich $7.50
Crudites in a Cup (vegan/gluten free) $3.75
Whole Fruit - $2.25
Gluten Free Granola Gar (gluten free/vegetarian) $4.75
Assorted Cookies (vegetarian) $2.50

Hot Specials Lunch -
Daily -
Chefs Choice Daily Soup with brioche bread $5.00
Pizza (Hawaiian, pepperoni & Cheese $5.00
Thursday - Ukrainian Box with Perogies, kielbasa and lazy cabbage rolls $12.00
Friday - Teriyaki Chicken $12.00

Thursday February 13, 2025 11:45am - 12:45pm MST

Salon 19/20

This session invites teachers to explore agriculture as a way to engage students’ innate sense of awe and wonder, which are powerful experiences that can enrich curriculum connections, deepen engagement, and harness children’s natural curiosity. Based on research findings from a school using agriculture as a lens to facilitate elementary curriculum, teachers will learn how agriculture-based teaching can tap into children’s natural curiosity, sense of wonder, and desire to discover, while expanding their experiences with nature. Teachers will leave with practical examples for integrating agriculture- and nature-based lessons they can build on to make learning meaningful, awe-full, and wonder-full, not only for students but also for teachers. Tried and true lessons will be showcased to encourage teachers to map agriculture onto Alberta curriculum in discipline-specific or cross-curricular ways. This session is meant to spark ideas for modest or elaborate projects for teachers regardless of school context. Resources including the school's own lessons website will be shared so that teachers will have concrete plans to put into action.

Speakers

Bonnie Stelmach

Professor, University of Alberta

I am a Professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Alberta. My particular research interest is in rural school innovation. I’m currently researching in a K-9 school in Alberta, Canada that has a program focused on agricultural literacy, experiential learning, and... Read More →

Thursday February 13, 2025 11:45am - 12:45pm MST
Salon 19/20

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ESTCA 2025

Bonnie Stelmach

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