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Walla Walla teacher Peggy Payne describes hands-on agricultural science program
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Peggy Payne, an agricultural science teacher at Walla Walla High School, describes an 18-year career and a hands-on curriculum that includes hydroponics, horticulture, biotechnology and student engineering projects such as batteries and windmills.
Peggy Payne, an agricultural science teacher at Walla Walla High School, described her 18-year tenure with Walla Walla Public Schools and outlined a hands-on curriculum that blends plant science, engineering and applied laboratory work.
Payne said the program emphasizes both career preparation and scientific investigation. "We're actually growing plants, hydroponically and looking at the result of photosynthesis in terms of growth rate, and then with genetics, the traits that we see," she…
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