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Learn about growing crops and raising livestock as you help us with our daily chores in our fields and barns. Explore how and why we grow and raise what we produce, and how food gets from the farm to your table. Observe different earth-friendly farming practices and discuss how they support healthy food and a healthy planet. Depending on the season, participate in planting, weeding, harvesting, or caring for livestock.

Program Location:

Drumlin Farm, Lincoln

Grades:

1, 2, 3

Price:

  • 2 hour program: $10.50/student3 hour program: $12.00/student4 hour program: $14.00/student1 free adult chaperone/12 students

Curriculum Frameworks:

1-LS1-1 - From Molecules to Organisms--Structures and Processes - function of plant/animal body parts
1-LS3-1 - Heredity--Inheritance and Variation of Traits - sim./diff. among indiv. plant/animal
2-LS2-3 (MA) - Ecosystems--Interactions, Energy, and Dynamics - how plant/animals depend on surroundings
2-LS4-1 - Biological Evolution--Unity and Diversity - observe/compare living things diff. env.
3-LS1-1 - From Molecules to Organisms--Structures and Processes - life cycles
3-LS3-1 - Heredity--Inheritance and Variation of Traits - plant/animal inhereted traits evidence
3-LS3-2 - Heredity--Inheritance and Variation of Traits - inhereted/env. influnced characteristics

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