- April 24, 2024
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With a group of kindergartners gathered around her, Flagler Palm Coast High School Bunnell FFA student Madison Worley held up a travel-size tube of toothpaste and asked if the younger student knew what it was made of.
“Cherries!” one boy said with excitement. While incorrect, it was a good attempt, Worley acknowledged. She explained to the visiting Imagine School at Town Center students that the paste is actually made out of tree sap.
The students visited the Bunnell FFA at FPC Tuesday, May 8, and Thursday, May 10, to tour the agriscience department. They visited stations focused on miniature horses, goats, rabbits and chicks, forestry and plants. After lunch, they made their own ice cream.
The collaboration was formed when Imagine teacher Jennifer Bellerive, who was an FFA student in high school, contacted her former teacher, Johanna Davis, at FPC, about extending their classroom unit about farm animals and plants into an on-site visit.
From there, FPC student Kerry Norberg took on the supervised agricultural experience as part of her community action and service project. Norberg’s project also involves an agriculture literature day and an upcoming agriculture adventure day with fourth-grade students.
“The big kids love working with the little kids; it gives them a chance to see it from a different perspective,” Davis said. “Both age groups come away with a new appreciation and excitement.”
For kindergartner Boston Milligan, not only was it exciting to see the animals, but he also learned that “mostly everything is made out of trees.”
As he stood in the forestry station, he pointed to tree-made objects: “Tables, Gatorade, pencils, paper and toothpaste.”
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