By: Kay Poland
Agriculture Education teacher DHS
Just as the FFA motto states, Agriculture Education students from Dickinson High School and SWCTE Learn by Doing.
Fifty-three students from four agriculture education classes participate in "Hands-On" learning through real-life experience in sheep management and small animal care.
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The Intro to Agriculture class learned how to halter, lead a sheep, and trim hooves. In addition, the Animal Science and Veterinary Science classes also learned how to load and unload from a stock trailer, trim hooves, and deworm a sheep using a drench gun. The most challenging part of the lab was "spinning" the Ewe's onto their docks. The lab was at the Dickinson State University indoor arena this past month. A fourth class, Small Animal Care, learned how to care for orphan kittens by feeding and grooming them during their cat unit of small animals. This lab was at the High School.
It is great to see our students enhance their learning by doing!