Web Site Designed y Mon Valley Internet ServicesSchool ToursEDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS AT TRIPLE B FARMS(Click on Photos for a larger view)School Field TripsField trips to our farm provide a day of “agritainment” with hands-on experiences. Our trips are linked to the PA Academic Standards of Environment and Ecology, Science, Mathematics, Reading and Listening and Family and Consumer Science. The students gain special benefit from an actual agricultural experience on a real working family farm. The children learn about life on the farm, planting and harvesting crops, and the importance of agriculture in their daily lives.Mrs. B (the farmer’s wife) is a former elementary school teacher. She conducts our field trips along with a staff of 5 trained women. The children interact with Mrs. B while she presents an educational program for them in our School Barn. The children take home many great memories.Tours are offered in May and October by appointment only. Please call 724-258-3557 for more details.Spring Field Trips (May) Geared to Kindergarten through third gradeStudents learn about growing and harvesting strawberries and vegetables, bees and pollination, and the importance of good soils. All participants take home a strawberry plant to plant and watch it grow. The students also have time to enjoy what they call the “fun stuff” such as a hayride, sliding down our tube slides and visiting with our farm animals.Fall Field Trips (October) We offer 2 sets of programs during this month:1)A shortened program for younger children ages 2 to 4 or 5 years old. The children visit Pumpkinland, take a hayride, pick a small pumpkin from the field and use our small playground.2)An educational program for Kindergarten through third grade. Students learn about planting and growing apples and pumpkins and pollination and bees. Participants also take a hayride through the apple orchard, select a small pumpkin from the field, visit Pumpkinland, play on our tube slides and visit with the farm animals.If you would like to receive more information about School Field Trips, please click here.
Web Site Designed y Mon Valley Internet Services
School Tours
EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS AT TRIPLE B FARMS
(Click on Photos for a larger view)
School Field Trips
Field trips to our farm provide a day of “agritainment” with hands-on experiences.
Our trips are linked to the PA Academic Standards of Environment and Ecology,
Science, Mathematics, Reading and Listening and Family and Consumer Science. The
students gain special benefit from an actual agricultural experience on a real
working family farm. The children learn about life on the farm, planting and
harvesting crops, and the importance of agriculture in their daily lives.
Mrs. B (the farmer’s wife) is a former elementary school teacher. She conducts our
field trips along with a staff of 5 trained women. The children interact with Mrs. B
while she presents an educational program for them in our School Barn. The
children take home many great memories.
Tours are offered in May and October by appointment only. Please call 724-258-
3557 for more details.
Spring Field Trips (May) Geared to Kindergarten through third grade
Students learn about growing and harvesting strawberries and vegetables, bees and
pollination, and the importance of good soils. All participants take home a
strawberry plant to plant and watch it grow. The students also have time to enjoy
what they call the “fun stuff” such as a hayride, sliding down our tube slides and
visiting with our farm animals.
Fall Field Trips (October)
We offer 2 sets of programs during this month:
1)
A shortened program for younger children ages 2 to 4 or 5 years old. The
children visit Pumpkinland, take a hayride, pick a small pumpkin from the field and
use our small playground.
2)
An educational program for Kindergarten through third grade. Students learn
about planting and growing apples and pumpkins and pollination and bees.
Participants also take a hayride through the apple orchard, select a small pumpkin
from the field, visit Pumpkinland, play on our tube slides and visit with the farm animals.
If you would like to receive more information about School Field Trips, please
click here.
