We decided to focus our first club meeting on promoting free range eggs. We watched a DVD (Farm animals and Us) to see how Battery,Cage and Free Range Hens were treated differently.
Three Animal Club members then volunteered to go into a cage (under a school desk) for 20 mins to experience life as a cage hen. They wrote about their experiences to share at the next meeting.
Some of the Animal Club members experiencing life as a battery hen
The rest of the animal club wrote stories entitled "My life as a Cage/Battery/Free Range Hen". They chose one to write about and we have collected these into a book which can be read in the school foyer.
Ridge Street Kids Club - 8th September 2008
More wonderful activities....
The children have come up with some wonderful ideas including making badges, preparing a play about the cruelty in circuses and putting it on YouTube, creating their own website and creating an animal helpers pack to teach other children things they can do to help animals. We have made a start on these ideas.
First we designed our own badges, of which four were chosen to be sold at Animal Liberation stalls to raise money! Animal Liberation has also agreed to allow the children to create their own "Kids Corner" on their education website, which we are all very excited about. We have been drawing all sorts of pictures and finding out some cool facts about animals.
We even have a games designer helping us create some games to be put up on our webpage. Soon we will meet to put together some information on things we can all do to help animals. We are hoping to use all this information and the pictures and badges in the Animal Helper Packs also.
Tennant Creek High School - 4th September 2008
DVD about caring for dogs!
As part of the Health Dogs, Healthy Kids project, we have made a DVD promoting caring for your dogs in order to provide a safe environment for your kids to grow.
Clifton Hills Primary School - 2nd September 2008
Egg-Selent Eggs
On Tuesday 2nd September, at our lunch time meeting we looked at the differences between cage eggs and free range eggs. Many of the differences we could see just by looking at the eggs. Other differences were noticed when we wobbled the bowls with the eggs in them and when we ate them. After we observed what the eggs looked like and discussed this with Miss. Baile, each animal club member took a turn at cracking one of the eggs into the bowls. We kept all the cage eggs in one bowl and all the free range eggs in another bowl.
Mrs. Ritchie then asked animal club members “How many millilitres are there in a cup?” Rebecca got the answer right so she measured the milk to go into one of the bowls. Dylan then measured the milk for the other bowl. Following that, each animal club member had a turn at whisking the eggs and milk together. Then a couple of the animal club leaders assisted Mrs. Stoakes with scrambling the eggs. Once the eggs were cooked the animal club leaders assisted Miss. Baile, Mrs. Ritchie and Mrs. Stoakes in serving a small sample of each type of egg to each animal club member so that we all could taste them for ourselves.
Most of noticed a big difference between the two flavours of the eggs and we all agreed that the Free Range Eggs tasted much better than the Cage eggs. Below is a table of the differences that we observed between the cage eggs and the free range eggs.
CAGE EGGS
FREE RANGE EGGS
The yolk colour looked like an artificial yellow like you find on cheezles.
The yolk was a ‘sunny’ yellow.
The Albumen (egg white) was all loose, floppy and runny. It did not provide much support for the yolk.
The Albumen was thick and gel like. It provided a lot of support for the yolk
The egg shells were a brown colour.
The egg shells were a white colour.
When the eggs were whisked together with the milk the colour looked the same as ‘Macaroni Cheese’ sauce.
When the eggs were whisked together with the milk the colour was a bright yellow colour.
These eggs were bland with no flavour.
These eggs had a nice distinct flavour.
Carmel School - 2nd September 2008
New Animal Club!!
Poster Making
Carmel school has just started it's first animal club and we are all very excited and full of ideas on how to help animals. We are a Jewish school and animal protection is a very important part of Judaism. The Torah tells Jews "not to cause unnecessary pain to animals" We made posters to promote this idea and have displayed animal art work in our school foyer.
