Agricultural education growing at Summit Elementary
The seeds have been planted for Summit Township Elementary School’s agricultural education — and now its administrators are growing its potential even further.
The school started a Community Agricultural Partnership at Summit last school year, thanks to a $70,000 Moonshot Grant from Remake Learning, allowing educators to plant seeds to teach gardening.
Construction will soon be complete on a greenhouse and an outdoor classroom at Summit Elementary, which will allow teachers to expand on agricultural education over the course of a student’s tenure at the school.
“We're working through, the teachers at Summit are developing an agricultural overlay curriculum so teachers at all schools can use it,” said David Andrews, instructional coach for student engagement at the Butler Area School District. “It's going to ramp up as a curriculum that will be teaching not just agriculture, but integrating into math and science as well.”
The outdoor classroom will be an enclosed pavilion structure about 40 by 50 feet in size with site furnishings, Wi-Fi and a monitor that will let classes video call other schools so other students can take part in lessons as well.
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