Our educational programs are conducted during each of our monthly 4-H Club meetings. The goal for this year’s effort is: Through participating in this series of SET Science, Engineering and Technology or SET lessons, students will increase literacy and engage in improving their knowledge, skills and abilities in science, engineering and technology.
Each lesson will address specific grade level expectations that hopefully will be helpful in standardized testing. The list of monthly topics is listed below. See the attached file for additional information on standardized testing expectations addressed for each topic.
OCTOBER – HURRICANE HAZARDS
Students will gain an awareness of history, terminology, and effects of hurricanes, track a hurricane on a tracking chart & be able to share preparation procedures for hurricane watches, warnings & evacuations with family & neighbors.
NOVEMBER –BLOOD AND GUTS
Students will identify human body organs and their placement and function in the human body.
DECEMBER –THE WEB OF LIFE
Students will identify plants, animals, and bacteria that make up an ecosystem and tell how each part of the ecosystem is interrelated with other parts of that environment.
JANUARY–GO WITH THE FLOW
Students will discover that electricity must have a path for electrons to travel, that the path electrons travel is a circuit, materials that carry electricity are conductors and that materials that do not carry electricity are insulators.
FEBRUARY –MAGNET MANIA
Students will be able to determine the north and south poles of magnets.
MARCH –EARTH WORKS
Students will identify the three main layers of the earth, describe the composition of the earth’s crust and plate tectonics and identify.
APRIL-DEAD OR ALIVE
Students will identify abiotic and biotic components of an ecosystem and understand why it is important for us to care for and protect our ecosystems.