OCED 7009 - Growing Agriculture in the Classroom

3 cr.

Using Massachusetts farms as classrooms, educators will learn how agriculture can enhance their curriculum, meet required frameworks and become part of a multi-disciplinary hands-on curriculum in your classroom. The skills you will develop are: a strong background in current agriculture practices throughout Massachusetts; how to use agriculture in your lessons to reinforce MCAS concepts; how to strengthen your science background with the application of principles to actual agriculture; agricultural literacy. Educators will keep a journal, research topics in agriculture and create lessons for classrooms.