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Impact Report

For plan Youth Development (Otero County)
Date April 30, 2009, 3:49 pm
For Objective Short-term Show short-term objectives
Impact Report The 4-H agent visited Buena Vista Elementary, Mountain View Middle School, Imago Dei Academy, Legacy Christian Academy, 2 Home School/4-H Families and Tularosa Elementary in the month of April and presented the Egg to Chick program. Overall the 4-H Agent spoke to 270 students about Glo-Germ and the importance of hand washing. Students learned that eggs have over 7,000 pores and this transparency allows for gases to go back and forth from the egg. The importance of hand washing is not also critical for this program but for their entire lives. The students gained knowledge in the area of egg development, embryology development, and nutritional information about eggs. We also discussed the importance of record keeping skills in collecting data of turning the eggs in the incubator, reading temperature and humidity numbers from the incubator as well. They also gained vital skills in understanding how chicks grow and live once they hatch. As one teacher said, “It was breath taking to candle the eggs and see the chick’s heart beats. I was able to explain to the students that this is how small your heart beat when you were growing.” Another teacher reported, “We had a very successful hatch but with our recorded data information we were able to go back and see why some of the eggs didn’t hatch.”