Mobile Science Activity Center rolls into Glasgow
GLASGOW Ky.-Students of Temple Hill Elementary in Glasgow went on an agricultural learning adventure provided by the Kentucky Department of Agriculture’s Mobile Science Activity Center. The topic was germination, which is what a seed needs to go through to grow. Kids used a soybean, water, and paper representing sunlight and fertilizer to create their own plant growing necklaces.
The goal is to introduce kids to the sweet world of agriculture.
“I think it’s important to get kids exposed to agriculture at an early age because today, kids are roughly 3 to 5 generations removed from the farm,” said Jason Hodge with the Kentucky Department of Agriculture.
Some kids haven’t had the experience of seeing how farms provide food.
“Many of those students don’t live on farms. They have no idea where some of our goods come from as far as farm animals and that type of thing. They get to do some pretty cool experiments using some of those products from the farms here in Kentucky,” said 6th grade teacher at Temple Hill elementary Deborah Sherfey.
Experiments that the students said they enjoyed.
“I learned that plant food isn’t called plant food. And I learned that the sun doesn’t give light and heat, it just gave heat to a seed,” said Temple Hill 2nd grader Haley Lyle.
The Kentucky department of agriculture hopes the kid’s interest in agriculture grows just as the plants do.
“We’re teaching the same science curriculum being taught in the classroom with an agricultural connection to it. It gives an opportunity to the kids that may struggle in the classroom with the normal science curriculum, it gives them an opportunity to experience it in a different light,” Hodge said.
