A great day in a club member’s and leader’s experience! Nebraska 4-H Extension recognizes Academy Science Club as a Club of Excellence at the Awards Dinner. The certificate reads: Nebraska 4-H Club of Excellence This certificate is presented to Academy for developing enthusiastic young people who boldly take action to demonstrate life skills as capable, caring, confident, competent kids of character thus contributing to the improvement of themselves, their family,…
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Nebraska 4-H Sarpy County Fair Poultry Showmanship Our science club embryology project has “grown” into our club poultry project. This is a big deal and required a great deal of logistics planning. There is more going on here than poultry growth and development! We learned about how to study important facts about our bird and how to present ourselves. Why are both genders referred to as “showman”?
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Grandpa says “sometimes teachers can be an odd lot, but it is hard to raise up children right without good teachers.” So we arrive at a place where we must always jump off from as teachers: the lesson plan format. There can be as many possible ways to do this as there are teachers, but a popular lesson plan format that grew from the research and practices of Dr. Madeline…
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Can you imagine chicks pecking their way out of these eggs? We have a warm, humid environment in an incubator. It is about 100 F and 40% humidity in here. We are turning the eggs twice a day and talking to the chicks inside that are about to hatch. We started with one dozen fertile mostly brown chicken eggs on the first day. We rescued another dozen of mixed whitish…
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Welcome to our Academy Science Club blog! Our blog will inform you about some of the interesting and exciting things we do as an education focused club. – STEM – Science, Technology, Engineering, Math; we make this STEAM by rolling in Art. Are you interested in visiting our club activity? – just contact me! We can arrange a visit date and time. You never know where we may pop up…
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