Recorder Subscriber for 41 Years
SALUTE THE HOLTON INSIDE DENISON, KANSAS Play Hometown of Football Marilyn Pick’em Seeger See Page 8. Holton Recorder subscriber for 41 years. RECORDERServing the Jackson County Community for 147 years Volume 147, Issue 83 HOLTON, KANSAS • Monday, October 20, 2014 12 Pages $1.00 RV breaks ground on new greenhouse By Ali Holcomb changes, and the opportunities for Royal Valley High School FFA of- investigating and hands-on learn- ficers broke ground on a new green- ing begins,” added Pfrang. “Learn- house Thursday after receiving a ing in the greenhouse will challenge $10,000 grant from America’s Farm- students to think scientifically about ers Grow Rural Education, which is agriculture as it is applied in every- sponsored by the Monsanto Fund. day life.” The greenhouse is being built for Kim Mitchell, agriculture teacher, agriculture students at the school, said that there are more than 80 stu- and it will allow them to grow veg- dents enrolled in agriculture classes etable crops and bedding plants, cal- this semester, and the school’s FFA culate fertilizer applications, plan Chapter has 34 members. The chap- layouts for maximum yield, perform ter was reinstated at Royal Valley last various propagation practices and year after it was disbanded in 2005. experience many aspects of running “The chapter has really thrived a horticulture business. this past year,” Mitchell said. “Our “One of the key shifts in the Next B Team recently took home first in Generation Science Standards states a dairy judging contest, and our stu- that science education should reflect dents have also placed at a land judg- the interconnected nature of science ing contest.” as it is practiced and experienced in Mitchell said that giving the stu- the real world,” said Susan Pfrang, dents access to a greenhouse will im- director of curriculum and instruc- prove their learning.
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