Prime Curriculum

Description

Most educators and children are at least 2 to 3 generations removed from an agricultural lifestyle. Many students don't realize that bread and steak are not products of the local supermarket. While most adults have a primitive knowledge of many common items' origins, these same adults often do not generalize that knowledge to see how agriculture really affects them. As technological advances in industry continually expand, society in general becomes less aware of the significance and fundamental value of this, and other, primary industries.

PRIME (Primary Resource and Industry Management Education) is an exciting and essential curriculum, which will bring agriculture education into the very hands of elementary school children. PRIME is a curriculum specifically developed to reach children from the time they enter kindergarten until they complete the fifth grade. PRIME Agriculture is the first of five curricula to be presented; following will be those addressing the other four primary industries; forestry, fishing, mining and petroleum.