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Outstanding Field Trip
The Dairy Adventure™ at Fair Oaks Farms is a fun-filled field trip not to be missed. The Dairy Adventure is a field trip that the students will really love and teachers will really use in the classroom, both pre- and post-visit.
The Dairy Adventure is a composition of experiences designed to engage multiple learning modalities, to have impact at in a range of learning levels, and to serve as a teaching platform for an array of more advanced studies.
Multiple Modalities – All of the senses (and the mind) are engaged by the Dairy Adventure’s Seven Wonders, from narrative-driven film and exhibits, to interactives, to Q & A Games, to high impact - real life observation.
Learning Levels – The Dairy Adventure is appealing and educationally rewarding for learning at all primary school ages and adults stages. The narrative has been written at various levels, to best fit the particular communications vehicle; and, the intimate and emotionally engaging observations of the Behind the Scenes Tour of the operating dairy, Birthing Barn and Cheese Factory can all be experienced and enjoyed from an individual's personal cognitive perspective.
Pedagogical Platforms – Beyond primary education, as a clear and compelling slice of agriculture real life, the Fair Oaks Farms Dairy Adventure can be used as a foundation for an array of secondary study, predominantly surrounding the areas of biology, including botany, genetics, animal husbandry and family life, ecology, veterinarian medicine and zoology. A visit to Fair Oaks Farms can also provide vivid object lessons in other fields of study, such as chemistry, physics, agribusiness and economics.
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School tours cost $4.00 per person. Reservations are required for groups with 20 people or more.
Your total Dairy Adventure will usually last about 3 hours, which includes 30 minutes for lunch.
We offer half pints of Fair Oaks Farms Milk in chocolate, and 2% white. Milk is free to school groups.
We offer a Kid's Boxed Lunch which contains a Smuckers® peanut butter & jelly sandwich, bagged snack, baby carrots with ranch dip, and choice of milk – $3.00 each.
We offer a Junior Boxed Lunch which contains a ham & cheddar sandwich, bagged snack, baby carrots with ranch dip, and choice of milk – $4.50 each.
We also offer Kiddie Ice Cream Cones in strawberry, chocolate, vanilla, cookies & cream, or butter pecan – $1.34 each.
Please note that lunches, milk and/or ice cream need to be ordered 10 business days in advance.
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