YEAR ROUND SCHOOL PROGRAMS 2006-2007 - PRIMARY AND JUNIOR PROGRAMS

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YEAR ROUND SCHOOL PROGRAMS 2006-2007

PRIMARY AND JUNIOR PROGRAMS

Meet the Farm Animals
K to Grade 2
$4 per student
Duration: 90 minutes
Did you know that a sow carries her piglets for three months, three weeks and three days? That a dairy cow can drink up to one bathtub full of water every day? Use your senses to discover the characteristics and needs of dairy and beef cattle, sheep, pigs, horses, goats, and chickens. What do they eat? Where do they live? Are all farm animals mammals? Why do pigs have hair and chickens have feathers? Uncover the reasons why we raise these animals. Explore the environment in which they live as you see, touch, hear and smell our livestock. (A-8)

Bread Science
Grades 1 and 2
$5 per student
Duration: 2 hours
With the help of the Little Red Hen, do all the steps to bake your own bread. Explore the texture, appearance and smells of bread ingredients. Investigate the properties of wheat germ, bran and flour. Knead dough and stretch the gluten chains. Then watch the ways dough changes when it is cooked. This program has story-telling, hands-on experiments, and fresh bread to taste! (A-7)

Food Chains
Grades 4 and 5
$4 per student
Duration: 90 minutes
Explore the interrelationships of plants, animals and humans in our modern, demonstration farm. Investigate how humans depend on the products of a farm to live. Classify its organisms according to their role in a food chain. Compare the structure and function of the human digestive system to those of poultry and ruminants, while visiting all of the farm animals. (A-9)

Properties of and Changes in Matter: Bread
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Grade 5
$5 per student
Duration: 2 hours
Starch gelatinization? Protein coagulation? There is a lot of science in a loaf of bread! Investigate the reversible and irreversible changes of the ingredients as you make bread to eat. Grind the wheat and examine its elements with a magnifying glass. Create a change of state by activating yeast. Knead the dough and feel the transformation of proteins into gluten chains. Discover how all of these different materials work together to create a useful and delicious food. This program is designed to stimulate kinesthetic, visual, and auditory learners. (A-16)

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