Located at the Weston Pavilion near the Shadle Nature Center.
The Nature Center is open Monday through Saturday from 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM and on Tuesday from 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM
Shows at 6:00 and 8:00 PM on Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.
Shows at 12:30, 6:00 and 8:00 PM on Tuesday.
Shows at 3:00, 6:00 and 8:00 PM on Saturday
Sponsored by Weist RV and Bob Weaver Chevrolet
Indoor Midway Shows All Week -
Presented by Porcupine Pat Mckinney
Monday through Saturday at 5:30 PM and 7:30 PM and on Tuesday an additional show at 1:30 PM
ClassAg with “Professor Porcupine Pat”
August 1-6, 2011
Food and animals are always a great combination for visitors to the Schuylkill County Fair. ClassAg is a family-friendly program that features facts about farm life. Class is in session with “Professor Porcupine Pat” of the Schuylkill Conservation District and you can join in the fun for hands-on and minds-on activities.
Each day there is a new topic that ranges from turkeys to pigs and dairy cows and more! You’ll learn a lot about each animal and how important they are to our lifestyle.
Twenty minute sessions will be held daily from Monday to Saturday at 5:00 and 7:30 p.m. An additional 1:30 p.m. session will be held also on Tuesday which is Kids Day at the fair.
Hogway Speedway
Racing Pigs
Farming for a Day
Childrens Area
Sponsored by the Dunn Family
Learn where your food comes from.
Mobile Ag Visit Schuylkill County Fair
August 1st through the 3rd
Schuylkill-Carbon Farm Bureau, along with private donations, is generously supporting the Pennsylvania Farm Bureau Mobile Agriculture Unit at this year Schuylkill County Fair, August 1 through the 6th. The Mobil Ag Unit is a science laboratory on wheels. The lab is equipped with 12 stations and can hold up to 24 people at a time. The laboratory setting within the unit makes learning about agriculture hands on. What a better way to learn then to place your hands on it.
The curriculum for the lab is offered at 4 different levels (elementary for grades 3-5; Middle School for grades 6-8; Primary for grades 1-2 and Walk-through (a 35 minute hands on activity) for grades k-2). All the lessons align with the state Standards for Science and Technology and Environment & Ecology. The Schuylkill County Fair is looking towards lessons to meet a wide range of age groups from grades k through 8 that will have access to this unit.
The “mighty bean is just one sort of lesson provided by the Mobile Ag Unit. Soybeans, aside from using them as a food source, are made into hand lotion, lip balm, crayons and many other things. Like soybeans, crayons can be also made from petroleum. Soybeans have an added benefit in that they are a renewable resource. The world will eventually run out of petroleum, but soybeans will be around forever. Students in the lab experiment testing crayons made from soybeans vs. petroleum. Visitors to the lab may determine which crayon performs better. The results are to be based upon which type of crayon covers the paper better, has brighter colors, and leaves fewer crayon flakes on the page.
Kids as well as adults in both rural and urban settings need agriculture education. It is important for all of us to understand and know about our environment. The Farm Bureau Mobile Ag Unit is able to do this.
The Mobil Ag Unit will be at the Schuylkill County Fair August 1 through the 3. Operational hours are Monday and Wednesday 4 till 8 PM. Tuesday, Kids Day, at the Fair the Mobil Ag Unit is operating from 11 AM to 8 PM.
The Mobile Agricultural Unit is a collection of six trailers across the state of Pennsylvania that travel from school to school during the course of each school year teaching students about agriculture, science and how they relate to the modern world. The program started about seven years ago and is staffed with knowledgeable retired teachers. The Mobil Ag Lab has been to a limited number of schools in Schuylkill County. It is the desire of the membership of Schuylkill Carbon Farm Bureau along with the Fair Association to bring this type of hands on Ag education to a wider audience. It is also the hope that some of the local school districts will visit the Fair and see the value of this Unit and want to bring it to their school.
Come to the Schuylkill County Fair August 1 through the 3 to visit the Pennsylvania Farm Bureau Mobile Agriculture Unit and learn about agriculture “first hand. “
