Author: Trent Adkins
Planning Unit: Pulaski County CES
Major Program: Natural Resources 4-H Core Curriculum
Plan of Work: Animal Science & Natural Resource Education
Outcome: Initial Outcome
Pulaski County 4-H hosted the KDA Mobile Ag Science Center this spring at three different middle schools. Over 800 seventh grade students from the Northern, Southern, and Meece Middle schools were in attendance. Students visited the Mobile Ag Center during their science class and created a project using Ag products. One such product was a biodegradable bouncy ball made of cornstarch. Students learned that corn is renewable resources that can be used to create plastics as opposed to petroleum which comes from fossil fuels and is non-renewable. This lesson refreshed students on ideas they had previously learned in the classroom and made them think of ways they use Ag products everyday aside from the obvious food they eat. Students and teachers enjoyed the hands on activity of crating bouncy balls, slime, and ice cream. They were engaged in the lesson and interested in real world application to what they had just learned, they were able to connect the idea of making a bouncy ball out of corn products to making packaging, utensils, and other plastic products out of corn. For some students this was the first time they really considered they ways they are impacted by agriculture. This program introduced agriculture to kids that may have otherwise never had this opportunity.
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