Colored milk? You may ask what this has to do with career day at South River Elementary that I attended today. First off, let me start by saying that besides myself I had my co-worker Jeremy Daubert (Dairy Extension Agent) come along to talk with the kids. Virginia Cooperative Extension has MANY areas of help and support to offer besides the 4-H Program. In our office we have specialists that can help you with horticulture, crops, food & nutrition, finance, and livestock questions. Since Jeremy and myself grew up on dairy farms we both decided to combine our extension jobs and love of milk into a fun activity. I spoke to kids about the fun lessons and activities I have with kids and hopefully inspired some future educators! Jeremy went straight to the heart’s of all animal lover’s when he spoke about his visits to farms and cute pictures of cows with their baby calves. I have a feeling that we could have earned best career presentation in the eyes of the kids and out done the fire trucks and police cars if we would have brought a cow and baby calf. However, with the dreary morning and persistent rain showers we stuck to the indoors.
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Milk Experiments
The above presentation of colored milk was achieved by simply mixing powdered Jell-O mixes with milk. Check out this website below for a cool science experiment with milk: