WLKM Radio 95.9 FM
A portable science laboratory recently returned to Centreville Elementary, where its students took part in a variety of hands-on lessons.
Over the course of four days starting Feb. 19, Michigan Farm Bureau’s Food, Agriculture & Resource in Motion trailer hosted the school’s K-6 students, one classroom at a time. In addition, its 16 Pre-K students took part, meaning nearly 500 students in all were involved in the lessons.
Led by Burr Oak-area resident Cody Baker, sessions lasted 30 minutes for younger students and about 50 minutes for older students.
Michelle Blodgett, Michigan Farm Bureau Ag in the Classroom manager, said the trailer was last in Centreville in October 2017. By all accounts, according to Baker and Blodgett, the latest visit was deemed as much a success as it was more than six years ago.
In advance of the FARM Science Lab’s visit to Centreville, grade-appropriate lessons were identified and then taught by Baker. For younger students, the lessons ranged from “Crawly Critters” and “Forestry,” to “Window Garden” and “Build-A-Farm.”
Upper elementary lessons included “Field Plastic,” “Power of the Potato,” “Simply Moovelous!” and “Pioneering Sweetness.”
