How
can you Protect the Environment?
Objective:
To help the applicator
identify application practices that may be hazardous to the environment.
To help the applicator
determine methods that will reduce environmental exposure to pesticides.
Procedure:
1. Members
of the audience do a 2 minute warm up activity.
2. The instructor
shows the first half of the Ohio State slide show on Pesticides and the
Environment. The instructor encourages trainees to take notes during
the presentation.
3. Members
of the audience do a 2 minute "Think-Pair-Share."
4. The instructor
completes the slide show.
Warm Up Activity:
Put members of the audience into pairs. Ask them to, "Tell your partner
what you do in your job with pesticides." Allow only 2-3 minutes, then
begin the lesson. Use a kitchen timer or turn the lights on/off when time
is up. This exercise is a critical part of the lesson. The members of the
audience need to feel comfortable talking in the classroom and they need
to feel comfortable with each other to do this lesson. They need to feel
that the classroom is a safe environment. This lesson works well when given
at the beginning of a series of PAT modules.
2 minute Think-Pair-Share
Tell members of
the audience to work once again with their partners. They should
tell each other how they can reduce environmental exposure to pesticides
in the work they do in their job with pesticides. Tell them to use
the notes that they took during the slide show. |