Success Story4-H Entomology Club



4-H Entomology Club

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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