Project Details
Description
although research has noted the widespread impacts of climate change on agro-ecological systems, unfortunately, farmers represent some of the most climate skeptical groups of individuals, with upwards of 88% denying the contributions of humans of modern day climate change. fortunately however, research has found that children, including agricultural high school students appear to be better at coming to a point of concensus on climate change, unlike their adult counterparts. as such, this transfer application proposes an integrated project that aligns with the afri farm bill priority area of bioenergy, natural resources, and environmenta with the overall goal of leveraging the unique climate change views of agriculture high school students to increase the climate concern and willingess to implement climate resilient agriculture behaviors of their parents, through intergenerational transfer. to do this, 36 north carolina high school agriculture teachers will be trained in the project learning tree module, southeastern forests and climate change, and experimentally test the curriculum's effects on a minimum of 1800 students and 540 parents. to accomplish this, preservice agricultural teachers and environmental educators at north carolina state university will be engaged through a robust service learning project giving them hands-on experience with teaching in agricultural classrooms and social science research methods. this project contributes to the overall afri goal of promoting the sustainability of agricultural ecosystems.
Status | Finished |
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Effective start/end date | 7/1/21 → 12/31/23 |
Funding
- National Institute of Food and Agriculture: $98,179.00
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