When Family & Consumer Sciences Teacher Jennifer Hebert opened her brand-new foods textbooks shortly before the academic year began, she was reminded once again how valuable her newest classroom tool would be.
Hebert’s prediction proved correct. Not only did her students react audibly every time a new group entered her classroom that first week of school, but, according to Hebert, the hydroponics system has continued to engage her students as they use it to grow their own vegetables in her food science class.
“’Hydroponics Gardening’ is the very first chapter in our new ‘Guide to Good Foods’ textbook,” said the Louisiana educator, who acquired a Plant Lab Educational Hydroponics System from Realityworks just a few weeks before her students arrived for the new semester. “Seeing that definition word in a textbook, a textbook that’s very new, I knew this would be something the kids have never seen before. They would be amazed.”
Jennifer Hebert
Family & Consumer Sciences
Teacher & FCCLA Advisor
Beau Chene High School, LA
Learning tool used: Educational Hydroponics Systems