We will launch our new Lewis and Clark Kids' Club with a trip to Arbor Day Farm in Nebraska City, Nebraska, on Saturday, April 20th. Students will receive a tour of Arbor Day Farm (yes, that Arbor Day), receive a short lesson on the importance of bees and pollination, roam and climb in the Arbor...
The Great Plains Radio Theatre under the direction of Ralph Swain presents a hilarious comedy from the Golden Age of radio drama.
After completing this lesson, students will be able to define an essential element; compare and contrast the essential nutrient requirements of plants and humans; explain why plants cannot use elemental nitrogen found in the atmosphere; and identify the sources for each essential nutrient needed by plants.
Sisters from the Outlaw Trail, Teresa Kay Orr and Marci Broyhill will present their program, Tangled Trails. The sister duo enjoys sharing their original stories, music and PowerPoint that reflect the expansion of the American West.
After this lesson, students will be able to list aspects of soil composition; appreciate that soils are living and dynamic; recognize that soils vary in composition; describe where nutrients in soils come from; recognize that plants take up water and nutrients from the soil; and recognize that growing crops can deplete agricultural soil of nutrients.
Lewis and Clark made a record of 178 plants and 122 animals previously unknown to European Americans. How did they know what to call things, or whether a plant they saw in early April would eventually have flowers? How did they know if a beaver was more closely related to a squirrel or a cat?...
On Sunday, May 5, at 2:00PM, in the Betty Strong Encounter Center, John Liepa will describe “How Iowa Met Baseball: the Myths, the History, the Players.” Over the past century, the setting for the spring passion of many Iowans has been the ballpark.
After completing this lesson, students will be able to recognize that plants remove nutrients from the soil; explain the roles of diffusion and active transport in moving nutrients from the soil to the plant; and relate the root and vascular systems of the plant to the human circulatory system.
On Sunday, May 12 at 2:00 PM at the Betty Strong Encounter Center, Jack and Mike Langley will brighten our day with a “Celebration of Mother’s Day.” Admission is free; reception follows.
After completing this lesson, students will be able to recognize that plants, like people, require essential nutrients to be present in the right amounts in order to be healthy; use reference materials to diagnose plant nutrient deficiencies; define fertilizer as a type of "food" for plants; and appreciate that fertilizers are used to replenish nutrients in agricultural soils.
The second field trip in our Lewis and Clark Kids' Club series will be a trip to the National Music Museum in Vermillion, and Washington Pavilion in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, on Saturday, May 18, 2024. Students will receive a tour of the National Music Museum in Vermillion, eat a picnic lunch at a Vermillion...
On Sunday, May 19 at 2:00 PM at the Betty Strong Encounter Center, Henry Payer, Ho Chunk of the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska and a multidisciplinary artist, will share how artists can promote themselves. Admission is free; reception follows. Working primarily with collage and mixed media, Payer references the altered landscape through indigenous cartographic methods...