Get ready to travel through time and learn how Georgia 4-H’ers have been involved in our club throughout history! Georgia 4-H has prepared 3 kits for staff and partners to use for middle school audiences. The “Decode the Decades” resource kit will contain all supplies and handouts needed to complete three interactive workshops, including ‘follow along’ videos led by Kasey Bozeman, Extension Specialist. \u00a0This program can be led in-person in your center, or prepackaged for young people to complete at their own pace at home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Workshop #1<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Let\u2019s start where it all began \u2026 in 1904. Mr. George Claud Adams gathered together a group of boys in Newton County and taught them how to grow corn. However, this corn was a special hybrid variety, created by plant biotechnology. It was the beginning of Georgia 4-H, where young people were able to make their lives better by applying researched-based information. In this session, participants will learn about plant breeding and genetics, creating their own hybrid variety of corn with unique characteristics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Workshop #2<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n During the 1940s, World War II affected people of all ages, including 4-H families. As a way to help with the war efforts, Victory Gardens were planted for families to cultivate their food and boost morale. Having access to fresh and healthy food is important. About 35% of the world\u2019s food crops depend on animal-mediated pollination, including many of the vegetables grown in Victory Gardens. In this session, participants will create their own Victory Garden and have insects visit that will model the pollination process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Workshop #3<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The year is 1996. All of the world is watching Atlanta as the site of the Summer Olympic Games. Georgia 4-H members are always willing to serve others, and some 4-H members even volunteered during the event. Archery has been an Olympic sport for well over 100 years, testing physics knowledge and skill of the competitors. In this session, participants will create their miniature archery set and compete in various Olympic challenges \u2013 shooting their arrow into rings, knocking down ping-pong balls, and hitting the bullseye target. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The above workshops would be perfect for an afterschool club meeting on base or can be used by 4-H volunteers. Kits are available for purchase. for $150.00\/each and each kit provides materials for up to 10 youth.<\/u><\/p>\n\n\n\n Please let Laura Goss know if you have any questions or would like to purchase a kit\u00a0 Happy decoding! laurwalt@uga.edu<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Get ready to travel through time and learn how Georgia 4-H’ers have been involved in our club throughout history! Georgia 4-H has prepared 3 kits for staff and partners to use for middle school audiences. The “Decode the Decades” resource kit will contain all supplies and handouts needed to complete three interactive workshops, including ‘follow […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":217,"featured_media":500,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[58,59,56,16,57],"class_list":["post-732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-resources","tag-4-h","tag-kit","tag-lessons","tag-science","tag-workshop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/military\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/military\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/military\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/military\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/217"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/military\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=732"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/military\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":734,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/military\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732\/revisions\/734"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/military\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/military\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/military\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/military\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}