Extension
It Starts With Us
Author: Kara Back
Planning Unit: Taylor County CES
Major Program: Agriculture & Natural Resources
Plan of Work: Commercial and Homeowner Horticulture Education
Outcome: Initial Outcome
The problem
Request for an entomology club for children.
The educational program response
Monthly lessons, focusing on a different insect, arachnid, etc.
The participants/target audience
4-H youth
Other partners (if applicable)
Master Gardeners
Program impact or participant response.
The 4-H entomology club has been very successful this year. The list of insects focused on so are wooly bears, ants, lady beetles, cockroaches, and many more to come. Lessons consist of lecture / reading of book about the insect followed by a craft / activity. Specimens of the insects are shown to 4-Hers' to see real like examples.
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