4-H Youth Development & Education

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4-H Youth Development

• 4-H Youth Development
  4-H provides opportunities to learn life skills, gain knowledge while having fun, and make contributions in environmental education, community service, and current youth issues.

Youth Programs

• Weather and Climate
  Let's Learn About Weather and Climate Science!
  An experiential and inquiry-based unit of instruction designed to improve science comprehension of middle school students in weather and climate.

• The Arthropod Museum
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• • Wildlife Museum
    The NMSU Wildlife Museum has over 6,000 specimens representing major vertebrate groups with some extremely valuable specimens dating back to the early 1900s.
    
    
  • New Mexico Youth Ranch Management

• Innoventure
  Even young children have skills and abilities that provide value to others and may eventually lead them to create their own jobs.
  

Health / Nutrition

• MyPlateMyDay
  Use MyPlateMyDay as a guide for the day and plan what you would like to eat!
  
  
• Kid Eats
  
  Supporting families cooking and eating together: recipes, videos, and interactive fun on the iPad.
• Because I Care, I Wash My Hands
  A 5-day visual and musical curriculum teaching hand washing in child care centers

• Eat-and-Move-O-Matic
  Look up foods you eat and find out how they fuel the body for movement and active play.

• Foods and Moves
  

  This series of apps for young children supports healthy movement and eating

Game Development

• NMSU Learning Games Lab
  The NMSU Learning Games Lab is an exploratory environment where gamers play and evaluate games - all kinds of games, including those designed strictly as entertainment, educational titles, and games in development.

Videos

• 4-H Youth Development Playlist

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Featured Videos

• Egg Candling on Day 7
• Egg Candling on Day 14

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• Teaching Tying
• Tack and Equipment

More

• 4-H Model Rocket Project: Materials, Assembly and Launch

• Horse Owners Minute: 4-H Hippology Feed ID Kit-Part 3

• Record Book Training Country Report Form (Curry County 4-H)

• Model Rocket Project: Materials, Assembly and Launch

Interactive Media

Atlantean Dodgeball | Gate | Pearl Diver | Bad Date | Game Over Gopher | Ratio Rumble | Number Rights | Monster School Bus | OverRuled | Pearl Diver | Ratey the Math Cat | Ratio Rumble | Scale Ella

• Selected Plants of Navajo Rangelands
  Navajo language tool for rangeland ecology, productivity & sustainability.
  
  
• Outbreak Squad
  
  Keep the community from getting sicker! Use your team of heroes to research, educate, heal, and protect people.
  
  
• Water Sampling & Water Testing
  
  New technologies allow farmers to sustainably grow food crops while conserving dwindling water supplies.
• Night of the Living Debt
  
  Zombies and debts have a lot in common. Manage your finances or be eaten alive by bad credit.
  
  
• 4-H Livestock Record app
  Organize market livestock project information & export customized reports.
  
  
• Stay Safe Working With Horses
  Lead a virtual horse out of the stall. Understand horse behavior to handle horses safely and effectively.

• Virtual Labs
  Interactive food science modules train high school and college students in basic laboratory techniques.

• Virtual Insect Collection Lab

  Practice pinning, pointing, and spreading insects to preserve them for scientific study.