What are School Enrichment Programs?

4-H School Enrichment Programs are hands-on learning experiences for students that take place during school hours. The programs are designed to support the school curriculum and are taught by Cooperative Extension staff or trained volunteers and teachers. School Enrichment Programs are research-based and align with the state's Standard Course of Study.  The programs are offered in public, private and homeschool settings.

Embryology

2nd Grade: Hatching Classroom Project The Hatching Classroom Project aligns with 2nd grade Essential Standard-Structures and Functions of Living Organisms. Developers of the Hatching Curriculum designed each lesson to be grade-level appropriate and have been correlated with U.S. National Science Education Standards.

The goal of the hatching program is for youth to learn about the development of an embryo within an egg, typically using chicken eggs, by incubating them and observing the hatching process firsthand, teaching basic life science concepts through hands-on experience with activities like candling eggs to monitor development and building a brooder for the newly hatched chicks.

An additional goal of this curriculum is to help students develop life skills. Beyond biology, students develop skills like data collection, observation, record keeping, problem-solving, and responsible animal care.

This curriculum meets the "Guidelines for Animals in North Carolina Public Schools" (2008) set forth the by the North Carolina Public Health Department.

Burke County 4-H offers this School Enrichment Program by providing Educator Training, access to equipment and supplies, and agent-led educational support activities.

Essential Standards

• • Structures and Functions of Living Organisms
  • Understanding Animal Life Cycles

Clarifying Objectives: 2.L.I.I Summarize the Life Cycle of Animals

• Birth
• Developing into an adult
• Reproducing
• Aging and death

How to participate in the Embryology Program

Other School Enrichment Programs

4-H has a variety of curricula that have been designed to develop essential life skills in alignment with the NC Standard course of study. Along with personal learning benchmarks, the curricula align with specific objectives of grade level standards. 4-H offers training to public, private, home-school and after-school educators on the curricula and can provide materials to support the classroom lessons. Please contact the 4-H agent to learn more.

Year-Round Educational Curriculum available in Burke County:

• Astronomy – Shoot for the Stars- 3rd Grade
• Be A Bone Builder- Kindergarten
• Bug Out- 2nd Grade
• Hive Helpers- 4th Grade
• I Am An Ecosystem- Elementary
• Mooving Milk from the Farm to the Fridge- K-3
• Soil Solutions- 3rd Grade
• The Busy World of Bees-1st Grade
• Vermicomposting- 5th Grade
• Winged Wonders- K-5 (Butterflies Gr.2)
• Magic of Electricity (Gr.3)

Visit NC 4-H Curriculum to find more.