4-H Embryology Program at Southern Valley

Extension Educator, Elena Stout, teamed up with the kindergarten classes at Southern Valley to facilitate the 4-H Embryology project. This is an exciting opportunity for young children to discover how an embryo develops inside an egg to become a chick. The kindergarteners spent 21 days caring for their eggs in an incubator before they hatched. Students even had the opportunity to look inside the eggs to see the developing embryos when Elena visited their classroom with a special flashlight to candle their eggs. This agriculture literacy project is incredibly important for young children to help them understand that agriculture products, like eggs, don’t just come from the grocery store.