Explore the exciting world
of 4-H School Enrichment Programs to enhance your classroom curriculum, emphasizing
"hands-on" training to reinforce science, language arts, math and life social
skills.
Programs:
Beans About Water - (4 weeks)
Go Plants! - (5 weeks)
Breads of the Harvest - (3 weeks)
Fishy Science - (3 weeks)
The Incredible Egg - (25 days)
Rockets Away - (3 weeks)
Weather Together - These activities are
designed with the busy teacher in mind. This five week, five lesson
unit is designed to be taught in 60 minute intervals with the option to expand
to 120 minutes. Digging Deeper and Going Beyond Activities are included.
The book includes: photo-ready transparencies, cut and assemble teaching
posters, end-of-lesson review tests, read and do worksheets, a glossary
of weather related items, and a web page support for predicting local weather
conditions.
Available upon request: Materials relating to the study of astronomy.
Beans about Water - A four lesson curriculum, students, like working scientists, use the soybean as a tool to study the properties of water and changes in matter. Students will experiment with soy-based solvents to dissolve fats and grease so they can be washed away with soap and water. The soy-bean plant, along with its variety of products, will help students understand why water behaves the way it does. You will use a variety of soybean related products as "tools" to explore such things as water density, the surface and the process of turning liquids into solids. For example, glycerine, a soy byproduct of soap manufacturing, is often used to enhance the durability of soap bubbles or slow the evaporation of liquids. Likewise, lecithin, another soy product, is used in experiments where fats and oils need to be mixed with water. In conclusion, students will understand how the properties of water and liquids can be applied to the manufacturing and use of soy related products.
skills, and the use of creative and critical-thinking skills. The unit
includes
planting, growing and
maintaining plant materials in the classroom. Go Plants activities
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Breads of the Harvest - What sustained
the Pilgrims during their long ocean voyage to the New World? What
did they ear to celebrate their first harvest in the American wilderness?
What European delicacies did they learn to adapt to their new homeland?
The answer is.....Breads!
This three unit curriculum integrates science, language arts and math
concepts in a study of the role of breads shaping the history of this nation.
Among the activities:
*Demonstrating the difficulty of grinding grains into flour
*Comparing the properties of different leavening agents
*Analyzing dietary needs
*Testing and tasting various bread recipes
The teacher manual includes lesson plans, camera-ready
student handouts, and information on additional resources.
Also includes nutritional
supplements.
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Fishy Science - Welcome to the world of Fishy Science. The purpose of this program is to introduce some basic concepts about fish through the use of an aquarium and select activities and experiments. Through viewing the Eyewitness video, students take a dive into waters of the world to discover the most exotic creatures in nature. Students experience hands-on experiments involving the process of osmosis, parts of a fish, the sensory features and abilities of fish, and the differences between species of fish.
Grades 3-7
Four Lessons:
~1~How Fish Swim
~2~How Fish Breathe
~3~Sensory Features and Abilities
~4~Special Adaptation to Water
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Incredible Egg - Welcome to the world
of chicken embryology. The unique curriculum integrates the concepts
of chick embryology in easy-to-use-math, science and language arts into
lesson plans. Through the use of superb photographs and colorful art
work included in some of the books, students chart the early stages of a
chick's life. This four lesson plan teaches students:
*Parts of a raw egg
*Strength of the egg shell
*Observing stages of a developing embryo
*Observing a fertilized egg hatch
Hatching chicks in the classroom can increase student interest in this
"eggciting" curriculum. The Huron County Extension Office will provide
you with fertilized eggs and an incubator for use with the curriculum. They
will also deliver the chicks to a farm when they leave the classroom.
For use September through mid November and/or March through June.
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Rockets Away - Blast off for an action-packed
adventure in math, engineering, aerospace, and physics with this three unit
study of rocketry science. Lessons in motion, gravity, and aerodynamics
send students' interest soaring. All lead up to the ultimate thrill
of building and launching their own rockets. The activities include:
*Understanding and applying Newton 3 Laws of Motion
*Observing the relationship between force and mass
*Testing turbulence
*Exploring stability and motion
*Constructing and launching a 2-liter bottle
rocket
The teacher manual comes complete with lesson plans. An optional
IBM-compatible computer diskette which presents problem simulations and design
and fight configurations for 2-liter bottle rockets. Also included
is a program for recording and analyzing launch data.
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Updated: August 2004