More than 4,000 students in the Jordan School District got a hands-on learning experience with the agriculture industry in Utah during this week's Cool School of the Week.
You may think of a classroom as a place with desks, a whiteboard and books but at the Agriculture Day for 7th graders in the Jordan School District, students got their hands dirty with animals, crops and more.
"We're trying to help kids explore opportunities and what kinds of things happen in agriculture," explained Jason Skidmore, Director of Career Technical Education."A lot of students think that ag. really might just be farming and fruits and vegetables but it's much more than that." Besides produce, there were also plenty of animals for students to touch and hold. Grace Pommerening, a Copper Hills High School Student showed off some of her adorable bunnies at the event.
While the snuggly bunnies posed for the camera, Pommerening said the process of selective breeding is important to agriculture in general.
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