4-H From Home

• 4-H Valentine’s Day Baking Challenge (PDF)
• Yakima County 4-H Winter Baking Challenge:  Festive Cookie Trees (PDF)

• 4-H Healthy Living Curriculum – University of Maine Cooperative Extension
  #EmpoweringMEandYou lessons are a part of a multi-year project linked to the National Youth Summits on Healthy Living. Each lesson is designed by Maine 4-H youth (with staff assistance) to be taught by and for middle to high school-aged teens.

• People’s Garden:  Healthy Gardens, Healthy Youth Toolkit
  This site includes access information to the toolkit, the philosophy behind it, and how it was developed.  The toolkit teaches youth how to grow, harvest, and store produce while building community capacity to sustain and grow the program.
• Weekly livestock judging contest at livestockjudging.com
• Virtual Farm Tours While You’re Stuck at Home – American Dairy Association

• Discover 4-H Clubs – Utah 4-H Extension
  A variety of curriculum activities in dozens of project areas.
• Educational Resources Curriculum – Shop 4-H
  Activity kits, games, and curriculum books for sale through Shop 4-H.
• Khan Academy
  Online learning platform for multiple subject areas.
• Kids Out and About
  Created during lockdown, this organization created a list of online activities for kids that include virtual museum tours, zoo webcams, storytime videos, and more.  The database can be filtered by the type of activity, the subject, the ages, or the region in which the virtual experience takes place.
• Learn at Home with 4-H Friday Fun! Videos – University of Maine Cooperative Extension 4-H
  Each Friday in the spring of 2020, a new hands-on activity was presented which could be performed, at home, with simple materials that are readily available.
  Watch a short video clip to see how it’s done or download our 4-H Learn from Home activity sheets. Each activity outlines materials needed, easy to follow instructions, reflection questions for discussion, and activity extensions.
• PBS Learning Media
• Smithsonian Learning Lab
• UKnow How-to Videos on YouTube – Iowa State University Extension and Outreach
  A multi-discipline series of video playlists on a wide range of do-it-yourself projects.  With information on everything from caring for houseplants to building homes for wildlife, raising monarch butterflies to raising backyard chickens, these step-by-step videos are a useful tool to guide youth and adults through new projects.
• Wonderopolis – the National Center for Families Learning
  Individuals write in things they wonder about and staff at the National Center for Families Learning research these wonders to create answer pages to help families learn.  Due to the user-submitted wonders, club leaders and families may want to pre-select wonders to explore to make sure subject matter being explored is suitable for the ages and experiences of youth in their audience.

• 84 Easy Science Lessons You Can Do At Home
  From Michigan State University Extension.
  From Michigan State University Extension.
• Citizen Science from the U.S. General Services Administration
• Duplicate Your Drawings with a Homemade Machine
  Create a pantograph machine that can copy, scale up, or scale down your drawings.
• Hour of Code
• Inquiring Minds Want to Know: Science Activities for Young Minds
  The purpose of “Inquiring Minds Want to Know: Science for Young Minds” is to provide ideas for facilitating science with young children so they gain important life skills and experience the excitement of science exploration.
• Lakeland
  A city building game that allows kids to examine complex systems and protect their waterways.
• Make Your Drawings Float!
  Using the chemistry of dry erase markers, watch your drawings float off the paper!
• NASA Learning Resources
• National Geographic Kids
• QuaranTeen Virtual Science Cafe recordings – University of Maine
  During lockdown, scientists at University of Maine talked about their careers and how they ended up at the university in zoom calls with teenagers. These informal discussions allowed youth to ask questions, learn about various fields, and ask researchers about their work.
• Robot, Make Me a Sandwich
  In this activity, you will investigate some of the challenges in programming a “robot” to do a simple household task, such as making a sandwich.
• Scratch Jr. coding activities for young children.
• King County 4-H’s STEM activity and lesson ideas for kids

Making Club Conference Calls Fun for All

Noise

We all want to hear you, not your background.

If you don’t have headphones with a mic that allow everyone to hear just you, practice muting when you don’t have anything to say.  This will help everyone hear better!

Guidelines & Agenda

All 4-H Meetings should have a plan.

Just like at 4-H Club Meetings, we want an agenda or plan for what we are going to talk about.  That could mean that you’ve scheduled time for checking in and hearing how everyone is doing with their project.  Keeping the group focused helps us use our time well.

Engage

Everyone should have something to share.

It’s easy to get distracted, so help everyone keep calls short but frequent.  Try your best to stay engaged and share your thoughts and ideas.  Don’t be an “air-hog” and encourage others that you haven’t heard from to speak too.

Repeat & Summarize

Distractions happen.

If you’ve shared about something that’s really cool, res-state briefly what you’ve shared so anyone fighting distractions (like funny dogs or younger siblings) doesn’t miss out.