Growing Minds is preventative program designed to educate young consumers about all aspects of healthy food. Here are just some skills that can be developed while visiting Growing Minds:
Practicing social interaction and life skills
Increasing language skills
Enhancing self-esteem
Stimulating the entire sensory system
Reducing tactile defensiveness
To learn more about this exciting new program or to book a field trip, you may contact us the following ways: Via email:
[email protected]
Physical exercise
Learning about nutrition and fresh food
Phone: 403-580-9654
Agriculture Adventures with Neubauer Farms
Growing Minds is a farmbased program where children learn about where their food comes from.
Box 1348 Medicine Hat, Alberta T1A 7N2
About the owners... Mark and Nichole Neubauer run a mixed farming operation just outside of the city of Medicine Hat. The Growing Minds program was developed through their shared passion to teach children about the importance of agriculture. The original Neubauer
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Family Farm (located North of Irvine) celebrated it’s 100 Anniversary in 2009. We are proud to say that this farm has always
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been owned and farmed by generations of Neubauer’s. Nichole has worked in early intervention and special education services
What I do, I understand
for the past 14 years. Their combined backgrounds have allowed for the development of a farm–based learning program to suit
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needs of children. Revised July / 2012
Educators may choose from the following field trip topics: Spring Fun on The Farm Spring is an exciting time on the farm. With the longer, warmer days farmers are busy planting crops and farm animals are having babies. Visitors will have the opportunity to learn about the special farm activities associated with the spring season. Example activities may include: Making the goats a special “salad”, bottle feeding a baby calf , feeding the pigs, gathering eggs, learning about wheat by exploring wheat berries, planting a make and take wheat plant, milling wheat into flour to make buns and learning about what products are made from crops that grow in our area.
Customized learning tours:
Adventures in the Pumpkin Patch Visitors will learn about the pumpkin growing process and will have the opportunity to harvest pumpkins from the farm’s pumpkin patch. Visitors will learn about nature’s special helpers who protect the farmer, the animals and the food we consume.
Do you have a curriculum topic that could be brought to life by visiting our farm? A unit on bugs, composting, or farm animals comes to life with a custom planned tour. Call to arrange a planning meeting so that we may develop a trip to suit your programming needs.
Example activities may include: Learning about the pumpkin growing process through interactive storytelling, going on a walking tour to find “farm helpers”, harvesting pumpkins, a make and take craft activity and hands-on exploration of the inside and the outside of a pumpkin. Each group will pick a pumpkin to take back to school. Field trip length: 90 minutes
Field trip length: 90 minutes Offered: September—October Offered: May and June Cost: $6.00 / visitor—minimum 15 Cost: $6.00 / visitor—minimum 15 No charge for teachers / adult helpers No charge for teachers/ adult helpers
In-Class Visits: Too cold to come to the farm? Call us to see about creating a farm program that can be delivered in your classroom setting. Some of our farm animals would love to go on a field trip to your learning environment, programming can be tailored to meet your current curriculum teachings!
