Archive - Continued
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Goat - Set of 4 
Great Pets!
Grooming and Handling Dogs
Health A - Discovering Myself
Health C - And Now It's Teen Talk
Health D - Piecing It Together
Health - Exploring Your Body (Helper's Guide)
Health - Helper's Guide
Health - Set of 6
Healthy Children Food Guide
Healthy Foods From Healthy Soils
Home Environment 1 - Beauty Around You 
Home Environment 4 - Design Your Own
Horticulture 1 - Budding Gardeners
Horticulture 2 - Branching Out
Horticulture 3 - Digging Deeper
Horticulture - Helper's Guide
Horticulture - Set of 4
The Importance of Clothing 1 
Know the Sewing Machine
Kids Guide to Social Action
Kitchen Science for Kids
Kitten Owners Manual
Leading the Way: How To Build a Workforce Preparation Effort
Life Lists for Teens
Lost in Cyberspace
Market Beef Project and Record Book
Master the Sewing Machine
My Heritage
Outdoor Fun With Frozen Bread Dough
Rising to the Occasion: Bread-Making
Sewing Leader's Guide 1
Talking With TJ Program Kit - Conflict Resolution Series
Tricks for Treats - Level I Member Guide
Tricks for Treats - Level I Leader Guide
Understanding Textiles 1
Volunteer Recruitment Book
What Kids Need to Succeed
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Contains Diary Goat Guides 1,2 & 3 Plus the Dairy Goat Helper's Guide. (c 2001)
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4-H Cooperative Curriculum System
This mammoth encyclopedia identifies dozens of unusual and not-so-unusual animals and explains what kind of family situation is right for each pet. Information on choosing, feeding, training, and housing more than 60 critters prepares children for the responsibilities and joys of animal companionship.
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National 4-H Council (4-H Mall)
Learn the basics of dog showmanship.
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This first level if this health curriculum allows youth to learn about the body and how to keep it healthy. Youth can conduct an experiment to see how cigarette smoke affects the lungs, learn how to reduce stress and simulate a car crash to find out what is like to get thrown out of a car because a seat belt was not worn. Life skills used in this unit are decision making, communication, problem solving, making healthy lifestyle choices, and learning to learn.
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This is a time in the life of teenagers when they are making lots of decisions that may significantly affect their lives--decisions about sex, drugs, alcohol, and much more. This time of life is also filled with stress. This third level of the curriculum provides opportunities for youth to practice decision making and learn how to handle stress in positive ways. Some activities that promote this are developing a physical activity plan, how to establish and stick to your values and practice non-violent ways to express emotions. Life skills emphasized in this unit are: communication, planning and organizing, learning to learn, stress management, nurturing relationships, concern for others, leadership, healthy lifestyle choices, and decision making.
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This final unit brings the learner to the final stage of the health project where he or she begins to piece it all together and prepare for the future. Youth will learn ways to take charge of their physical health, such as how to do self-exams for cancer, identify common dating concerns, write a resume and how to interview for a job. Life skills practiced in this unit are record keeping, disease prevention, self-esteem, healthy lifestyles choices, personal safety, leadership, problem solving, stress management, decision making, conflict resolution, and communication.
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This curriculum is a wonderful introduction to the world of health. Through this adventure the child and their helper will explore many phases of health including safety, expressing yourself, body motion, friends, eating and exercise. All the while you will be learning valuable life skills that will help you as you get older.
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This guide provides information to the helper about how to facilitate learning. Some helpful ideas for doing this are through action demos. The entire curriculum scope and sequence for levels A, B, C, and D are outlined for easy reference. Answers to questions in the youth manuals are given for each level.
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Includes Health A-D and two Helper's Guides.
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This set of 25 laminated cards provides nutritional information for parents, teachers, child care providers, school cooks, and early childhood professionals who work with children.
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Discover where food comes from, how our bodies use food, and what happens to food waste. You'll participate in the ecological cycle of food production, compost formation, recycling back to the soil, while helping children understand how their food choices affect not only their own health, but farmers, the environment, and your local community.
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Teaches the elements of design, the color families and how to make something for your room or home.
This item may be purchased for $0.00 through the Utah State 4-H Office by calling Extension Publications at 435-797-2251.
Home Environment 4-Design Your Own
Apply the basic guidelines and principles of design used to solve any interior design problem, how to buy wisely, and much more!
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Horticulture 1 - Budding Gardeners
This beginning project is aimed at youth in grades 3-5. You will identify plant parts and their functions, grow house plants, start a plant from a cutting, make a dish garden, prepare a house plants exhibit for show, and much more.
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This intermediate project is aimed at youth in grades 6-8. You will learn about plant needs and soil testing, select and start new plants, grow transplants, plant a terrarium, examine plants for insect damage, keep records, judge a house plants exhibit, and much more.
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This advanced project is aimed at youth in grades 9-12. You will take a tour of a horticulture business, design a plant experiment, teach others how to grow an herb garden, compare organic and chemical fertilizing and insect control, present an illustrate talk about house plants, develop a marketing plan to sell horticulture products, explore horticulture careers, and much more.
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Leaders Guide for Horticulture 1-3 with ideas of additional activities and learning experiences.
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National 4-H Council (4-H Mall)
Contains Horticulture 1-3 and Helper's Guide.
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National 4-H Council (4-H Mall)
What we wear is important in helping each of us to take part successfully in the activities of the day.
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Learn to sew clothes, novelty accessories, crafts and costumes. You will also be able to help others learn what you have been taught.
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Help kids turn creative thinking into positive action with step-by-step directions for letter writing, interviewing, fundraising, speechmaking, media coverage and more. Contains petitions, news releases, etc. and inspiring true stories of actual kids' accomplishments.
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This curriculum is a manual that assists child care providers & other educators in providing science experiences for groups of children ages 5 - 12. Five science experiments support selected food & nutrition concepts: make science accessible and fun; and encourage discovery-based learning among children and adults. Guidance for linking science with cooking, reading, and nutrition is provided. National Collection of Juried 4-H Youth Development Curricula
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Cornell University
Dozens of practical tips to help you raise an indoor cat without losing your sanity, presented in a fun question-and-answer style. Includes advice from the nation's leading veterinarians, animal behaviorists, and shelter directors, along with success stories from real-life cat owners.
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National 4-H Council (4-H Mall)
This 85-page guide is designed to help you ensure that people from all parts of your community actively participate in creating better ways to prepare youth for work. Specifically, it is designed to help you get your community's effort up and running. Leading The Way contains practical, hands-on tools such as checklists, sample agreements, sample applications, and more.
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Tips, Steps, Hints, and How-To’s for Growing Up, Getting Along, Learning, and Having Fun. Each list is like a mini self-help book—a starting-point for learning, thinking, and making positive choices and decisions. Some of the lists are practical: 6 Ways to Remember What You Study, 12 Tips for Making and Keeping Friends, 3 Rules for Doing Internet Research. Some are meant to motivate or inspire: 10 Goal-Setting Steps, 18 Great Reasons to Serve Others. Some are serious: 8 Tips for Coping with Tragedy or Disaster, 9 Symptoms of Major Depression, 10 Ways to Handle Hate Words and Slurs. And some are just for fun: The 8 Clown Commandments, 9 Tips for Changing Your Hair Color.
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National 4-H Council (4-H Mall)
The Illinois 4-H Computer Curriculum has lots of great activities and project ideas for the computer project area.
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Complete this project book every year a market steer or market heifer project is taken.
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National 4-H Council (4-H Mall)
Learn regulating and caring for your sewing machine and sewing with zigzag stitches.
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Discover some links with the past that will enrich your life today and motivate you to preserve family treasures and carry on traditions into the future.
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Youth learn many fun techniques with frozen bread dough including rock cooking, foil-wrapped cooking, Dutch oven cooking, clay cooking, sun oven cooking, along with some other more advanced techniques.
This item may be purchased for $0.00 through the Utah State 4-H Office by calling Extension Publications at 435-797-2251.
Rising to the Occasion: Bread-Making
"Rising to the Occasion," is a workforce preparation project designed to teach children and youth how to make bread and prepare for careers in the food industry. This program integrates workforce competencies with the art and science of bread making.
National Collection of Juried 4-H Youth Development Curricula
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National 4-H Council (4-H Mall)
In this guide are suggestions to help you, as a 4-H Textiles and Clothing leader, in working with members and their families and developing educational experiences based on the six sections of Clothing 1.
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This is an educational packet for children in second to fourth grades. Materials include a video, manual, leader guide, and visual aids; children will learn important kills of planning, cooperation, and appreciation differences.
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Hallmark Corporate Foundation
You will start by learning how your treats can be food for you. The trick here is to use the food-guide pyramid. It's an easy-to-use guide to good eating. The contents of this project include building a pyramid, setting the stage: kitchen safety, recipes: guides to kitchen magic, measuring tricks for great treats, tools for kitchen magicians, appliances: the magician's assistants, microwaves seem like magic, tricks for healthy snacks, mealtime manners: keys to a great performance.
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In Trick for Treats, the emphasis is on beginning food preparation skills, nutrition, and food safety. It is most appropriate for youth ages 8 to 9 and is a good introduction project for the foods and nutrition area. The leader's guide has many ideas for additional hands-on activities. This leader's guide provides background information for each section of the member's guide, as well as group activity suggestions that can be used with the activities in the member's guide.
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Learn about some of the fibers, yarns, and processes for making the fabrics used in your clothing.
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The Volunteer Recruitment Book examines each individual task of recruitment. Ellis shows how to analyze what you want volunteers to do, how to increase your recruitment effectiveness by designing the right jobs for volunteers, how to present your organization's image (something that can dramatically affect your success in recruitment), and how to identify the right recruiting technique for each group of volunteers you seek.
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Provides proven, practical ways to raise good kids. Identifies 40 developmental assets essential to promoting success and preventing at-risk behaviors. Published by Free Spirit Publishing.
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National 4-H Council (4-H Mall)
