Summer Nutrition Education and Garden Day Camp Program:
Summer Day Camp is for up to 50 Springport Elementary students free of charge. The Day Camp will focus on nutrition education through gardening and involved working with fruits, vegetables, chickens, sheep, cattle, compost, worms, and the soil. A wide range of activities will be incorporated in the day camp for a fun and exciting experience.
- Drop off/Pick up at the Greenhouse behind Springport High School
- Tuesdays 9:00 am - 3:00 pm
- Students are expected to bring a lunch and appropriate outdoor clothing
Elementary Nutrition Education Class:
Every student gets the chance to experience nutrition education. Kids are doing activities in and outside of the classroom. They are doing food tasting, growing in the green house, and this summer there is a day camp.
The Agriscience Program is hosting a day camp, one day a week, all day. They get to garden in a way to teach nutrition, and to participate in a physical activities. Some activities they will experience at the day camp are:
- working with the high school students in the gardens
- food/nutrition activity
- work with the high schoolers in the pasture
- food journals
High School Agriscience Nutrition Mentors and Botany Class:
Students in Leadership class have become Certified Nutrition Trainers through a program in the course. Students were trained on the following items:
- learning styles
- mentoring
- nutrition
- creation and delivery of nutrition lessons for classroom & garden
- mentor elementary students in nutrition through gardening
- creation of day camp lessons
Students in Botany class experience growing food and managing a commercial-sized greenhouse. The students learn how to take proper care of the greenhouse, and the living plants inside. The vegetables from the greenhouse are harvested and sold to the school's cafeteria for fresh, and nutritious school lunches.
