"Delivering Rural Experience Packages" ... Gyeongbuk Provincial Agricultural Technology Institute Develops Non-Face-to-Face Content

720 Sets Provided to 30 Elementary and Middle Schools & Dementia Centers

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Park Dong-wook] Gyeongsangbuk-do Rural Education Farm is gaining popularity by providing experience kits that enable non-face-to-face rural experiential learning and dementia prevention programs.

According to the Gyeongbuk Agricultural Research and Extension Services on the 30th, due to the prolonged COVID-19 pandemic, members of rural education farms have been distributing experience kits free of charge to help students from educationally vulnerable groups in elementary and middle schools and elderly people with dementia.

These farms have developed about 50 types of rural experience kits, providing 20 types such as growing young barley sprouts, making chrysanthemum soap, and making handmade tofu to 720 people, including students from 30 elementary and middle schools in the province who are educationally vulnerable and elderly people at city and county dementia centers.

Through this event, they plan to identify the strengths and weaknesses of non-face-to-face experiential activities and make improvements. Starting next year, they intend to expand the target schools and promote rural experiential learning linked to regular curricula, after-school classes, and the Education Welfare Priority Support Project, thereby helping to increase farm income, according to the Gyeongbuk Agricultural Research and Extension Services.

Choi Ki-yeon, director of the Gyeongbuk Agricultural Research and Extension Services, said, "This year, the research institute has continuously made various attempts to respond to COVID-19, such as developing non-face-to-face content, experience kits, and small-scale experience programs. We will further strengthen rural experiential activities linked with schools and those with healing functions."

Meanwhile, the rural education farms nurtured by the Gyeongsangbuk-do Agricultural Research and Extension Services are farms that operate experiential programs linked to the curriculum using rural resources, with 97 locations currently operating in the province.

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