Kentucky
Agriculture
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Ms.
Jolly Explaining Kentucky Products |
Comparing
Prices at Rider's Grocery |
Mrs. Cooper’s Class has
developed a report about Kentucky Agriculture.
They listened to a speaker from the Hardin Co. Extension Office,
researched books, encyclopedias, newspapers and the Internet, visited the
grocery to compare farm & retail prices, and next spring, will enjoy
lessons in the mobile Kentucky Agriculture Classroom van coming to Upton with
more activities & experiments.
After learning about the
abundance of food products & by-products processed in Kentucky with which
we are blessed, the students decided as a culminating activity, to participate
in a service-learning project to help less fortunate children & families
around the globe. They chose Heifer
Project International's Kids 2 Kids Campaign.
For $120, HPI can provide a high quality goat and training in its care
to a hungry family around the globe.
Each gift means nutritious milk every day not only for the children, but
entire families—as well as extra income for medicine, clothing, school expenses
and improved shelter.
STLP (Student Technology
Leadership Program) Team Members raised money during Make a Difference Day to
purchase two goats for hungry families across the globe. The class also decided to use the KDA Grant
for this model lesson to send HPI farm animals to the children of Afghanistan.
This Agricultural lesson
has been accepted by Fayette County’s Kentucky Kids Project,
a collaboration of classrooms around the state, sharing technology research
projects on a variety of Kentucky topics.
Click on Kentucky by Topics, then Agriculture, to locate
it.
It is also
highlighted on the (KAEC) Kentucky
Agriculture and Environment in the Classroom web site at http://www.kyagr.com/enviro_out/education/programs/KAEC/index.htm