Welcome to DIVE4Ag!
Bringing Youth Opportunities to Explore Agriculture Through Virtual Reality and Online Activities
DIVE4Ag
Distant, Immersive, Virtual Education for Agriculture Literacy
The DIVE4Ag project brought Pacific Northwest middle and high school youth opportunities to explore topics in agriculture through virtual reality and other online activities. Together, Oregon State University’s Precollege Programs and OSU Extension 4-H Youth Development Program led the effort with community partners to implement an innovative Agriculture Distance Education Toolkit.
DIVE4Ag
Educación virtual, inmersiva y a distancia para la alfabetización sobre la agricultura.
El proyecto DIVE4Ag brinda a los jóvenes de escuelas intermedias y secundarias del noroeste del Pacífico oportunidades para explorar temas de agricultura a través de la realidad virtual y otras actividades en línea. Juntos, los Programas Preuniversitarios de la Universidad Estatal de Oregón y el Programa de Desarrollo Juvenil 4-H de OSU Extension lideran el esfuerzo con socios comunitarios para implementar un innovador kit de herramientas de educación a distancia sobre agricultura.
Recursos bilingües (español): Las experiencias de campo de realidad virtual tienen subtítulos en español y todos los planes de lecciones y recursos están disponibles tanto en inglés como en español.
DIVE4AG EVENTS & ACTIVITIES
DIVE4Ag was a two-year education project during 2021-2022 that created an Agriculture Distance Education Toolkit as an open access resource. The activities and events during the project offered rapid, accessible, immersive and innovative distance agriculture education to regional middle and high school learners, educators, and trained volunteers from rural and underserved communities in Oregon and Washington using virtual reality tools (VR) and interactive virtual labs, including:
- VR field experiences in agricultural sites
- Related online curricular activities produced for youth with youth contribution
- Virtual professional development for educators
- Youth Online Programing
- Teens as Teachers preparation, Virtual Teen Ag. Sciences Cafes
- Virtual Near-Peer Ag. Mentorship Sessions
- Virtual Ag. Challenge and Interactive Labs
- Curated distance agriculture education resources
For more information, please contact us:
Email: [email protected]
DIVE4Ag Impacts
Impacts include changes in agricultural literacy, increased educators’, learners’ and trained volunteers’ access to immersive agriculture curriculum via VR platforms and increased pedagogical skills for educators mediated by 21st century communication tools and state-of-the art technology.
Partners in Collaboration
This work is supported by the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative, Education and Workforce Development Program (grant no. 2021-67037-33379/project accession no. 1024985), from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Institute of Food and Agriculture.
