What is project management?
This video features Peter Gillespie, Curator of Scientific Collections at the Orange Agricultural Institute and Ainsley Seago, Technical Manager of the Insect Collection.
Discover more about the Scientific Collection of the NSW Department of Primary industries – a historic and valuable record of pests and diseases found in NSW since the 1800’s.
Peter Gillespie, Curator of Scientific Collections at the Orange Agricultural Institute and Ainsley Seago, Technical Manager of the Insect Collection.
This video explains why the collection is so important, how it was set up to assist agriculture and how the collection is managed.
Students Learn About
- identifying problems
- project management
- developing solutions to problems
- generating ideas
Students Learn To
- develop a project proposal, a design specification or design brief
- respond to the findings of experimentation and research
- follow a process to identify and solve contemporary needs of society
- formulate management plans including;
- action
- time
- finance
- manage a minor project based learning task that successfully solves an identified problem
- select and apply appropriate research methods to solve a minor STEM based problem
- justify decisions made based on the analysis of data
- identification and exploration of the research problem
- areas of investigation
- criteria to evaluate success
Downloads
The Scientific Collection at the Orange Agricultural Institute
Teachers guide to support the The Scientific Collection at the Orange Agricultural Institute video
Teachers Guide for Soil, water and plant tissue testing at the Wollongbar Environmental Lab Video
Take a tour of the Wollongbar Environmental Lab with Sarah Morrison, Coordinator of Analytical Services with the NSW Department of Primary Industries.
This video will show you how and why soil, water and plant tissue are tested to help farmers make management decisions for sustainable food and fibre production and develop solutions for farming practices.
Videos
How do you identify problems?
In this video you will meet Digby Rayward, District Vet for Hunter Local Land Services.
He explains the process of identifying problems in his field of work which involves collecting blood samples for the National Arbovirus Monitoring Program from the dairy herd at Tocal College.
A new group of heifers is sampled every year and tested monthly to see if the virus has been transmitted. Overall, there is approximately 40 sentinel herds and eight of those herds are monitored in the Hunter.
What is project management?
This video features Peter Gillespie, Curator of Scientific Collections at the Orange Agricultural Institute and Ainsley Seago, Technical Manager of the Insect Collection.
Discover more about the Scientific Collection of the NSW Department of Primary industries – a historic and valuable record of pests and diseases found in NSW since the 1800’s.
Peter Gillespie, Curator of Scientific Collections at the Orange Agricultural Institute and Ainsley Seago, Technical Manager of the Insect Collection.
This video explains why the collection is so important, how it was set up to assist agriculture and how the collection is managed.
How do you start the process of developing solutions to problems?
Take a tour of the Wollongbar Environmental Lab with Sarah Morrison, Coordinator of Analytical Services with the NSW Department of Primary Industries.
This video will show you how and why soil, water and plant tissue are tested to help farmers make management decisions for sustainable food and fibre production and develop solutions for farming practices.
