2023 Early Hearing Detection & Intervention Conference
March 5-7, 2023 • Cincinnati, OH
6/28/2018 | 3:15 PM - 4:15 PM | "The Bugs Are Breaking In!" | Kennebec
"The Bugs Are Breaking In!"
“The Bugs Are Breaking In,” is a sharable Next Generation Science Standard teaching tool and interactive platform to educate teachers, students and their families about invasive pest species, particularly the Asian Citrus Psyllid, an insect costing billions of dollars and destroying citrus nationally and globally.
This activity creates an immersive experience promoting backyard scientist events encouraging kids to go outside and become the observers and story tellers we need to combat the invasion of the Asian Citrus Psyllid, as more than 50 percent of California homeowners have citrus trees.
Workshop includes sharable links and interactive gaming experience.
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Julie Cates
(), Sixth Grade Teacher, Linwood Elementary, Visalia, California, jcates@vusd.org;
Julie Cates is a sixth grade teacher in the Central Valley of California. Mrs. Cates has a passion for agriculture and nutrition education which she enthusiastically shares with anyone who will listen and all who like to eat! While working as a Nutrition Program Coordinator for the University of California Cooperative Extension, she joined Twitter and followed The Produce Moms. In 2015, Mrs. Cates began enhancing her career in education, she became a classroom teacher. Mrs. Cates knew that she wanted to incorporate nutrition education and food sampling
in her weekly projects. She contacted Lori Taylor, founder of The Produce Moms to inquire about using the FindYourFavorite trademark and adding a hashtag and the word Friday for a class campaign. Cates secured a grant from California Ag in the Classroom and earned the title, “Educator of the Year, 2015” for her innovative use of social media, taste tests, farmer visits and agriculture education across English, math, and science curricula.
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Amy Downs
(), Global Learning Charter School, x;
Amy Downs currently teaches a fifth & sixth grade class at Global Learning Charter School in Visalia, California. She grew up on a farm in Kern County. Amy holds Master’s degrees in Curriculum and Instruction and Elementary Mathematics. She is also a Hapara Certified Trainer and a Google Level 1 educator. Amy Downs was Visalia Unified 2017 Teacher of the Year, and a Tulare County Excellence in Education Educator of the Year.
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