Precision Agriculture - קבוצה 1 עפולה

Helping farmers with specific environmental or agricultural problems

The project has two main objectives: (1) supporting the agricultural community in the school region by working towards solutions to some problems they present; and (2) allowing the pupils to make acquaintance with the agriculture profession.

50 pupils from the 8th-11th grades will participate in the project. They come from two different tracks: one is photography track, and the other one is Science & Engineering track. They will work in small groups in a full PBL process, while combining the skills from both subject matters. This combination between the two tracks is very interesting, as many of the solutions one can offer in precision agriculture involve imaging, thus they come from the integration of engineering, science and photography.

The learning process will be based on a new program in precision agriculture, dealing with state of the art technology for data collection and processing (such as drones, GIS technology etc.). To this program a new community aspect will be added: the pupils will meet farmers from the region in order to get to know some of the problems they tackle and to understand their needs. In addition, their hands-on work will be led by the supervisor of precision agriculture in the Ministry of Education. Furthermore, the pupils will get relevant professional information from representatives of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, and of the Environment Department in the Municipality.