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Big Green Colorado has launched Big Green At Home an online hub for all kids and families to continue their learning around health, nutrition, and growing your own food!
Fun for all ages
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Enjoy many interactive agriculture activities including cow milking, sheep shearing, livestock auctioneering, the amazing corn maze, and much more! And of course you will be able to meet a wide variety of farm animals from huge draft horse to tiny chicks that are just a few days old. Come learn where your food comes from and enjoy going to the farm yet never leave the city.
For more information please call 403-261-0162 or visit: http://ag.calgarystampede.com/events/aggie-days
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Discuss community and our rights and responsibilities within our school community. Explain living vs. non-living. Discuss plant needs and things that hurt plants. Show the pictures of things that hurt plants on the “Care Bingo” cards. In pairs students find and circle the things that hurt plants and positive ways to treat plants in the garden. Wrap up: what are our responsibilities for the natural area? What about other areas like parks? Why should we care for our garden and gardens in general (provide oxygen, helps us care for other creatures etc) and how can we do so?
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Students learn to identify colors by hunting to find various colors in the school yard. Students must use matching skills to match colour swatches with items around the schoolyard. Wrap up: Students pair up and share their findings. What other colours did they find while looking?
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Discuss colours and nature. Predict rare and common ones. Outside students find and draw natural items for each colour. Wrap-up: rare and common colours, natural vs. manmade, etc.
