Agriculture

Chipotle Add with Willie Nelson "Scientist" Song [] I'm going to use it to introduce my food and agriculture unit. Various recommendations from APES teachers: wheat better than lawn grass use 0-3% in 0.25% increments Seeds: Can also use water hyacinth, mung bean, cucumber If use soil, need to increase salinity concentrations. containers: petri dishes, plastic trays, ziplock bags wrap seeds with cloth or paper towels, about soak seed first for short period of time (20-60 minutes) and then put into container to germinate solution voume: 20 mL
 * From: Corina Rahmig**
 * Salinity Labs**

From: Rusty Walker, Community Charter High School Oxfam has put out a new report that addresses many of theissues in our APES curriculum. It discusses the global food crisis, examiningthe challenges of supplying adequate nutrition to the world's growingpopulation while living within the ecological constraints of our planet. Itdoes a great job connecting so many critical concepts from our curriculum andgiving them a human context, illustrating for students the very real causes andconsequences of our current global agricultural system. The report can be found here: [] The full GROW campaign homepage is: [|www.oxfam.org/grow] I'm planning to use the report in class next week beforemy current classes graduate and I'll more fully integrate it in to the"Land and Water Use" and "Population" units next year.Perhaps some of you will find it useful as well.