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3rd grade students gather around high school student holding chicken. Green trees in the background and chain fence on the right side

MacArthur 3rd graders enjoyed a trip to Southwest High School's agriscience program on September 27, 2024.

Students toured the Southwest facilities and learned about urban agriculture. 

This included learning about aquaponics, a sustainable framing system which combines aquaculture and hydroponics to grow plants and fish. Students saw fish in tanks and helped feed them. They also harvested lettuce, which is grown in this system and provides fresh lettuce for Southwest High School students.

Third graders also visited the Southwest orchard and saw the apiary, and the bees hard at work, along with apple and pear trees and berry plants. 

Students got to learn about chickens and even help feed them. 

Southwest High School students provided the tours and shared what they have learned in the agriscience program with the 3rd graders.

See photos below of MacArthur’s visit.

Students gather around green fish holding tank
Students look into large green fish holding tank
Student smiles as they reach into fish tank
Students in classroom listen to teacher (off camera)
Student wearing blue gloves uses scissors to harvest green lettuce
High school student assists MacArthur student to harvest green lettuce
Students in classroom smile and raise hands with questions
Student in southwest sweatshirt holds chicken as 3rd grader pets the hen
3rd grader nervously pulls away from chicken
students ask questions in front of bees in enclosure with honeycomb
Chicken eats out of students hand while students laugh in background
Students gather around and feed a chicken
Student holds up a bright green pear to the camera. the background is green grass and trees
Two students hold up red apples they picked from the orchard
Student smiles and holds up the berries and apple they picked
students laugh with green grass and tress in the background
Students gather around a high school student holding a chicken
Student raises hand to ask a question in front of trees
Students laugh while a teacher holds fish in a net
Students look at fish in a large green tank