According to Mike Rowe today is National Denim Day . We celebrated Jeans Day at Work here at the Illinois Farm Bureau last week as a show of support for McLean County United Way. But wouldn't it be a perfect day to wear Jeans to work? Or maybe even Jeans Shorts? IAITC is 'unpacking' from extended trips to Southern Illinois University and Eastern Illinois University where we conducted Pre-Service Teacher Training activities. Additional, we launched our First "FACEBOOK LIKE" Challenge we called Wacky Wednesday----to see which University would give us more 'Facebook likes'-----the Winner was EIU. Granted--I didn't do the presentations at EIU--but my MS is from EIU! We're packing again for a busy week at Aurora University on Monday, and Presentations at the Central Illinois Adult Education Service Center Conference on Wednesday, and heading to Olivette Nazarene University later in the week!
One thing to be assured of ----we'll see plenty of denim. Students wear denim, and Mike Rowe has people thinking about it--for a cause. But what about where the denim comes from? Sure the store. As with food coming from the store---what about where fiber comes from? We do a great activity with cotton from the USDA AITC Growing A Nation interactive CD rom--called King Cotton, where we have student hand gin cotton. Even though we don't grow cotton in Illinois, this lends itself to math, language, science and social studies as you would be shocked the number of people that have never seen cotton.
So as you celebrate Jeans Day --everyday?--consider the source of the fiber---maybe by watching the an episode of America's Heartland based on cotton. Click here to take you to their cotton page.
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