Teaching Resources:

The Botany and Plant Pathology Outreach Programs is pleased to provide you with these resources that can be used in your classrooms, ideas for science projects, or to increase public awareness about plant science and plant disease related topics.

Plant Pathology: Past to Present is a colorfully illustrated story describing the origin, relevance, and science of plant pathology. The story unfolds as told by Anton deBary, the father of plant pathology. This Flash presentation is voice narrated in either English or Spanish. A coloring book version is available from the APS website. Also available on CD for classroom or kiosk displays that contains student worksheets, answer sheets, a teacher's guide and answer key. To obtain the Windows/Macintosh compatible CD, contact Gail Ruhl at ruhlg@purdue.edu

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Do you ever wish you had help showing students the connection between your classroom and the outside world? Many of our faculty are willing to come and speak to your high school classes -- free of charge. Below are talks that can be given to your class by professors from the Department of Botany and Plant Pathology:

• Agricultural Research: Why it is More Important Than Ever- a brief introduction into food production, world population, and why agricultural research is more critical than ever to meet the demand for food and fiber over the next 20 years. Dr. Ray Martyn, Professor.
• Crop Bioterrorism: Defining the Threat - The tragic events of September 11, 2001 certainly changed the way the world operates today and opened the box of ‘unthinkables’. One of those unthinkables is a deliberate and catastrophic biological attack on our nation’s agriculture and food system. Agriculture is a ‘soft target’ and, as such, is vulnerable and needs to be harden in all areas from the ‘farm to the fork’. Agrobioterrorism is the deliberate attack on our animal or plant agriculture and food and fiber systems with a biological agent (e.g. pathogen) in an attempt to destroy the production, safety or economic markets of our food, feed, and fiber products and to instill public fear in our food supply. This lecture will focus on the plant side of agriculture (as opposed to animals) and will put crop bioterrorism in perspective with animal bioterrorism and focus on the issues of defining the threat – is it real? Dr. Ray Martyn, Professor.
• GMO's: What Are They and Why All the Fuss? - The introduction of genetically modified crops has had a major impact on agriculture. How are GMOs produced? Why do farmers grow them and why do some people object?. Dr. Peter Goldsbrough, Professor and Department Head.
• What is Life? - We can tell a living thing from a non-living thing...right? Maybe it's not so simple. This lecture will discuss the nature of the universe with respect to the earth and its living organisms. Emphasis will be on the origins and the early evolution of life on earth. Dr. Steve Hallett, Assistant Professor.

For a complete list of topics that are available from the "Professor in the Classroom" program, please click here.

To arrange a "Professor in the Classroom" to meet with your class, please contact:

Dan Gottschalk Youth Development & Agricultural Education 615 W. State Street West Lafayette, IN 47907-2053

Phone: (765) 494-8423 Fax: (765) 496-1152 E-mail: prof.in.classroom@ydae.purdue.edu