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Counties Team Up To Celebrate Earth Day 2009

By Karen Hayes, District Administrative Coordinator, Marshall County SWCD, Guntersville, Alabama

 

Students were introduced to Ruby Raindrop and Sammy Soil
Students were introduced to Ruby Raindrop (l) and Sammy Soil (r).

Marshall, Madison, and Cullman Counties SWCDs and staff of the Guntersville NRCS and FSA Field Offices teamed up to present Earth Day programs to kindergarten through third graders students at Guntersville Elementary School.

The Cotton Gin Program and Ruby Raindrop and Sammy Soil were introduced at the Earth Day event this year.

Each program was presented 27 times to about 500 students.

They loved the animated dancing raindrop and her side kick Sammy Soil.

The students were amazed to find out where their clothing originated from and how the cotton gin works. They were able to feel the cotton just straight out of the field with the seed still in it and then could feel the difference in the cotton after it was ginned. They learned that all parts of the cotton plant, including the seeds, are utilized in our everyday life, not only in the clothing we wear but also in the foods that we eat.

 

Mini cotton gin.
Mini cotton-gin used to separate cotton

Students feeling cotton.

Students feel the cotton just straight out of the field with the seed still in it and then could feel the difference in the cotton after it was ginned.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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