And finally, tonight, when classes begin this week at a special charter school in Florida,

some of the lessons will be taught in barns and animal pens.

Colleen Bradford Krantz of PBS, Iowa explains.

Instead of heading to a sports field or music room after class, many students at this public charter school in Dade City,

Florida spend their afternoons caring for farm animals.

It's called the Academy at the Farm and its mission is to give these young students a stellar

education and a new understanding about how agriculture impacts their everyday lives.

What amount of orange is this?

Robin Carter is one of the teachers here.

A lot of kids automatically have the idea that agriculture is just playing with animals all day

or feeding animals or having pets or something like that.

And we want them to expand their horizons and have the knowledge that

agriculture is actually giving us life.

This hands-on experience is woven into the science curriculum and the goal is that by the time

these students leave here after eighth grade, they head into the world as more informed

consumers and with lifelong memories of a unique school experience.

When I came here 10 years ago, academics and high expectations were the things that were drawing kids today.

There are people that absolutely want to come to our school because of our agriculture program.

Recently retired school director Ray Polk encouraged the expansion of the

Academy's Ag program. He was raised nearby on what used to be a 6,000-acre cattle ranch.

I felt like kids needed to know where their food comes from. Less and less kids are educated with that.

And I found that kids thought that,

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