She was a volunteer at the school before being hired as an instructional assistant. “It’s hands-on science,” said Prante, who lived on a farm in Iowa before moving to Huntington Beach. Fourth- and fifth-graders in the 475-student school as well as special-needs classes take turns at the farm and learn about science through interactive lessons. Since the school’s founding in 1972, the Farm has been an integral and unique part of the educational experience at the school. It’s the Student Environmental Learning Facility, or simply the Farm. It’s there Dana Prante oversees a 2-acre, urban farm, complete with goats, sheep, ducks, geese, chickens, pigs, turtles and rabbits – lots of rabbits. That is, until you walk out to the southwest corner of the school grounds.

Tucked in the middle of a housing tract, the school is unremarkable amid the suburban sprawl.

HUNTINGTON BEACH The sound of a rooster crowing is the first indication that something’s a little different at Golden View Elementary School.

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