As many or all of you know I am an elementary education major. As part of my program I attend a lot of workshops and seminars that give great ideas and resources to teachers. One such workshop I attended called 'Ag in the Classroom' was all about teaching students about farms and agriculture and how to bring that into the classroom. One of the many activities I did as this workshop involved creating a "living necklace". How this works is you take a cotton ball and get it wet, stick a seed on it, and put it in a tiny plastic baggy. Then you punch a hole in the baggy, tie some string around it and wear it around your neck! like this:
Here is me sporting my living necklace... or at least here is my torso.
The idea and point of the living necklace is that it give kids the opportunity to see how a seed sprouts and grows roots. They get to watch the whole process day by day. Cool, right?!
Luke and I were really surprised at how well my Indian Corn seed sprouted. It even has a leaf!
Look at all those roots! All with a cotton ball and a little water. Who knew??
6 comments:
Wow! I used to loved that sutff when I was in elementary. I would have never thought that would work.
Yes, the living necklace is very cool. Your Indian Corn seed sprouted very nicely indeed. I'm jealous of all the cool seminars and workshops you get to go to...I need to go to more of that type of thing.
I swear last week it was only like 5 cm tall. Go Living Necklace, woot woot! I really enjoyed the picture of you modeling off your shweet necklace with it poking out like 7 inches, I really want one!! What other seeds do you think would work?
peace and love.
Very cool! Secondary ed isn't nearly that fun!
For some reason that kind of creeps me out.
That's okay Leesh. Those roots wrapped around the cotton ball like that kind of creeped me out too.
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