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Agriculture

1999
Our entry was about agriculture. Robert and I (Jeff) read about farming in ancient Egypt. We included our research on ancient Egyptian farming in this project so that everyone could see the changes that have taken place in farming over the years. We decided to research two crops, wheat and cotton, that were important in the United States. While working on the research for these two crops, we interviewed a local farmer, Mr. Gilcrease. We spent a day at his farm, and attended a farm show that draws visitors from around the world. After witnessing all the hard work that goes into being a farmer, we decided to include a section called Do You Have What It Takes To Be a Farmer? While we were at Mr. Gilcreases farm and at the farm show, we took over fifty pictures of farm equipment with a digital camera. We included some of the pictures in our report. We also felt it was important to know something about two men, Eli Whitney and John Deere, who were important to the history of farming. Our educational objectives were:  Learn to use PageMill (a web-authoring program)  Design informative web pages based on curriculum taught to 4th-6th graders in California  Learn to use a scanner and digital camera  Learn to search for information using a variety of sources - Internet, books, interviews, etc.  Learn how to create web page backgrounds  Learn how to organize our time and work together as a team