Oregon-Davis ag students have been keeping busy this school year. Teacher Kristen Kubacki recently gave an update on each of her classes to the Oregon-Davis School Board. Her landscape management/natural resources class has been upgrading the old cross country trail.
“We are looking at doing, like, wildflowers or pollinator plants to have a bank of something to look pretty but also be beneficial for natural resources,” she explained. “My kids started in this area pulling weeds and stuff, so that’s nice and pristine.”
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She says projects like these go a long way in keeping students engaged. “If you give them anything that doesn’t have to do with having a pencil in their hand, a textbook, or being in the classroom, they think they’re not doing school work,” Kubacki said. “So they think it’s automatically fun. They think it’s great.”
But they’re also learning skills and earning college credit in the process. Kubacki says all of her classes except Intro to Ag offer students dual credit through Ivy Tech.
The school board approved the annual Supervised Agriculture Experience. It gives students the chance to earn credit by working on FFA projects or other ag-related work over the summer. A new curriculum requiring additional documentation and reflection from students was put in place last year. Kubacki admitted that it pushed some kids away, but got others more excited.
She said the FFA program itself had been less active for the past year due to COVID-19, but about 42 students are currently involved, including 12 seventh graders.
In other business, Starke County Farm Bureau President Tiffany Nagai presented a donation of agricultural books for Oregon-Davis Elementary School.
