Anyone who has spent time with a preschooler knows that they will ask a million questions. Their inquisitive minds wonder aloud the darndest things: Why is the sky blue? Where is Grandpa’s hair? Where do babies come from?
Katie Krause figured out how to turn young children’s natural curiosity into an agricultural education opportunity through a creative embryology program called “Look Who’s Hatching.”
Krause was teaching preschool in Ohio when she first had the idea for the program. While attending a teacher training about 4-H embryology sponsored by the Ohio Soybean Council, her thoughts kept circling around how she could adapt the concepts to the preschool level…