Abstract: Agricultural culture is the root of fine traditional culture of the Chinese nation, so taking into consideration comprehensive characteristics of children and teenagers to use curriculum resources of agricultural culture to strengthen agricultural education by offering educational activities suitable to local traits is demanded both by quality education and the five-quality requirements. After reviewing related research on agricultural education, the article points out the objectives and content of agricultural education. Based on case analysis and a survey on agricultural education conducted in four primary schools in urban Chuxiong, helpful experience in curriculum construction in three aspects has been identified, i.e. emphasizing school-based curriculum to perfect the agricultural education curriculum system; emphasizing creation of practice bases to introduce various practice activities; and emphasizing inheritance of agricultural culture to foster the agricultural spirit. Finally the authors suggest as practice paths the following measures regarding agricultural education in primary schools: developing systematic school-based curriculum in agricultural education and including it in the curriculum system, organizing practice activities in agricultural education on grade basis with emphasis on practice sublimation, using situation simulation to propagate agriculture and integrating it into campus culture, and adopting multiple methods to implement agricultural education evaluation that is close to real life.

Key words: urban primary school, agricultural education, agricultural culture, practice path