CSU's Agricultural Adventure Day Provides Ag Education for Third Graders

CSU's Agricultural Adventure Day Provides Ag Education for Third Graders

Later this week, Colorado State University agricultural sciences students will be showing Poudre School District third graders hands-on agricultural lessons. This Ag Adventure Day is put on by about 200 CSU ag students — from the planning to the teaching of the lessons it is all student-led. CSU Agricultural and Resource Economics Professor Dr. Marshall Frasier shares more about the lessons the third graders learn
Frasier: “We’ve got a really highly structured event. There're six learning centers and students spend 20 minutes at each of the six centers for a total of two hour event. We we run two sessions a day. The learning centers have one that focuses on sheep and wool. We’ve got beef and dairy management. We’ve got an equine station. We’ve a soil and water. We’ve got a farm to table which address food crops as well as grains. Meat safety and meat handling and a farm safety learning center and this year they have a new one they are developing to reflect some of the new technology in precision agriculture and how that works. The kids are in a pretty structured progression through there in their two hours.”
Different student ag clubs are responsible for each learning center and the curriculum. There is a core planning committee of eight students who coordinate the facilities, the other CSU student volunteers as well as working with the 72 classroom teachers and their schools.
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