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 learnFrasier: “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.