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Agriculture Education In Elementary Schools, Samantha Irene Cairncross
Agriculture Education In Elementary Schools, Samantha Irene Cairncross
Samantha Cairncross
This Capstone Project focused on improving students’ agricultural literacy through the implementation of a lesson on agriculture. The participants for this Capstone Project included 23 third-grade students in a public elementary school located in Monterey County. The Capstone Project consisted of a lesson on agriculture. This focused on improving students’ agricultural literacy and exposed them to new topics that fostered connections to agriculture and products they use, eat, and see everyday. The main finding of the Capstone Project was that the majority of students had not experienced a lesson on agriculture this school year, as shown in the pre-survey. After …