From the challenges of growing food on Mars to the probability maths of chook bingo, the Timboon Agriculture Project’s (TAP) expo presented a dazzling array of ways in which agriculture is integrated in Timboon P-12 School curriculum.
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Many of the agriculture-linked activities at the expo last week were demonstrated by the school’s students and showed not only their fellow students but the wider community the host of school programs that focus on agriculture.
School principal Sean Fitzpatrick said TAP had started in 2012 as a way to engage the local community in education. The school had partnered with hundreds of outside organisations to deliver a unique program, Mr Fitzpatrick said.
He said the school was now mentoring other schools about building up an agricultural focus in their education programs.
And for the uninitiated, chook bingo involves guessing where a chicken will leave a dropping on a sheet of marked squares.
