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It was an eggs-celent day for puns and education, embryology education that is. Today we took a couple of hours to work with our first time teachers who are implementing embryology in their second and third grade classrooms. Spring is the time of year when teachers and 4-H work together to plant a seed in the heads of of our youth. This is a science, technology, and agriculture seed that grows into a lesson on life cycles and more for our students.

Thanks to United Way of Robeson County 4-H is able to offer the teachers training on our hands on, research based curriculum and how to implement it in their classrooms. Then we loan them incubators, and get fertile eggs for each classroom in hopes that within the month they will have hatched some cute and noisy little chicks. While the youth are helping turn the eggs they learn how to read a thermometer, candle eggs, and how life cycles work. It is a fun lesson that teachers say stay with the students for their lifetime.

Stay updated on 4-H Embryology through the blog as we place the eggs in the incubators, turn the eggs and have a fabulous hatch. We will keep you up to date with photos and video of our fun event. If you would like to take part you can also come by the 4-H office and check on the chicks in our incubator at the O. P. Owens Agricultural center. We will have a guest book for you to sign in and leave us contact information so that we can contact you as we get closer to the big day.