UC 4-H Youth Development Program - 4-H Science, Engineering, and Technology




		"The University of California 4-H Youth Development Program Engages Youth in Reaching Their Fullest Potential while Advancing the Field of Youth Development."

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4-H Filmmaking Studio (2009)

Topic Area: Technology | Audience: Youth grades 8-12

The 4-H Filmmaking Studio and Workshop will assist you with making your own film. Take your time and view each module. Practice with your camera, tell your story, and upload your film to share with others. This workshop was developed by 4-H in collaboration with Montana State University and TerraPod. .... Download a copy of this curriculum. | Share feedback on this curriculum.

4-H SET Activity Guide (2009)

Topic Area: SET | Audience: Youth ages 5-19

4-H science, engineering and technology (SET) activities can enhance your club or project meetings! This guide provides fast and fun science and engineering activities prepared to be SET-Ready. The activities allow youth to have hands-on experiences with a variety of science and engineering topics. .... Download a copy of this curriculum. | Share feedback on this curriculum.

SERIES - It Came From Planted Earth (2006)

Topic Area: Plant Science | Audience: Youth grades 4 - 6

"It Came From Planted Earth" provides activities using the scientific process and discussions to gain a better understanding of agriculture. It has been extensively pilot-tested as a useful tool in helping elementary students to begin to gain knowledge about agriculture and its application in the real world.

Each session provides hands on activities for youth to explore agriculture from the beginning seeds to the foods we eat to the importance of water and soil to production. Further exploration is given about current issues in agriculture from biotechnology to integrated pest management to urban-rural interface.

The session outline provides an overall purpose and background material. Then, each activity states an objective, materials that will be needed, getting ready, suggested grouping, action steps and sciencing questions. Youth are encouraged to further explore their world with hands-on experiments and community action. .... Download a copy of this curriculum. | Share feedback on this curriculum.

SERIES - Nature's Partners: Pollinator Protection (2007)

Topic Area: Environmental Education | Audience: Youth grades 4-6

The Nature's Partners curriculum is just one step toward increasing the public's awareness and sense of responsibility that are essential to a successful conservation program for pollinators. This introductory curriculum focuses on two of the many pollinators as a means for teaching basic concepts about the process and importance of pollination. Bees were chosen due to their primary importance among pollinators and butterflies were chosen because of the interesting and distinctive stages of their life cycle and their intrinsic appeal. .... Download a copy of this curriculum. | Share feedback on this curriculum.

SERIES - Pond Mapping (2005)

Topic Area: Environmental Education | Audience: Teens lead activities with youth grades 3-6

The activities in Pond Mapping are designed to be led by teens with youth as participants that are interested in exploring and learning more about their natural environment. Working together, teens and youth learn to make and use simple surveying equipment to map the bottom contours of a small body of water. Participants exercise their presentation skills by creating a product of their own design to share their research findings with local community groups. .... Download a copy of this curriculum. | Share feedback on this curriculum.

SERIES - Ridges to Rivers: Watershed Explorations Elementary (1999)

Topic Area: Environmental Education | Audience: Youth grades 4 - 6

Hands-on activities designed to teach young people about watershed concepts. Each curriculum features activities that develop an awareness of land as a watershed and encourage exploration of erosion, surface water pollution, movement and contamination of groundwater, and what kids can do to help. Elementary: For ages 9-11. Hands-on activities on erosion, making soil, life underground, aquifer in a cup, and creek bugs! .... Download a copy of this curriculum. | Share feedback on this curriculum.

SERIES - Ridges to Rivers: Watershed Explorations High School (1999)

Topic Area: Environmental Education | Audience: Youth grades 10 - 12

Hands-on activities designed to teach young people about watershed concepts. Each curriculum features activities that develop an awareness of land as a watershed and encourage exploration of erosion, surface water pollution, movement and contamination of groundwater, and what kids can do to help. High School: A guide to developing an independent science project around watershed water quality issuses. Ideas for investigating surface waterm creek chemistry, creek habitat, groundwater, and sustainable land use. .... Download a copy of this curriculum. | Share feedback on this curriculum.

SERIES - Ridges to Rivers: Watershed Explorations Junior High (1999)

Topic Area: Environmental Education | Audience: Youth grades 7 - 9

Hands-on activities designed to teach young people about watershed concepts. Each curriculum features activities that develop an awareness of land as a watershed and encourage exploration of erosion, surface water pollution, movement and contamination of groundwater, and what kids can do to help. Junior High: For ages 12-15. Hands-on activities on erosion, topographic maps, groundwater models, and creek creatures! .... Download a copy of this curriculum. | Share feedback on this curriculum.

SERIES - Ridges to Rivers: Watershed Explorations Model Construction Manual (1999)

Topic Area: Environmental Education | Audience: Youth grades 4 - 12

Hands-on activities designed to teach young people about watershed concepts. Each curriculum features activities that develop an awareness of land as a watershed and encourage exploration of erosion, surface water pollution, movement and contamination of groundwater, and what kids can do to help. Watershed Model Construction Manual: Learn how to build large, scale-model, concrete relief maps of your own local watershed that you can jump around on! Use them to teach about local geography and water pollution. Kids love them … and kids build them! .... Download a copy of this curriculum. | Share feedback on this curriculum.