Cooperative Extension Service 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

• Digital Desert Library
  An educational resource for teachers and students to learn more about the Chihuahuan Desert.

Health / Nutrition

• Because I Care, I Wash My Hands
  A 5-day visual and musical curriculum teaching hand washing in child care centers

• Ninja Kitchen
  Stop for lunch at a cafe staffed entirely by ninjas. Sophisticated gameplay reveals principles of food safety.

• Nutrition Decision
  An online nutrition game.

• Food Detectives
  An online game.

• Science Pirates
  Learning Science through online game play.

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

• Eat It Tweet It
  Track your own food behavior to better understand what you eat ‒ and why. This app uses Twitter.

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

• 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

• Treadsylvania, ATV Safety
  Safely ride your ATV on mysterious paths to defeat monsters and free the town from their evil grasp!

• Stay Safe Working With Horses
  Lead a virtual horse out of the stall. Understand horse behavior to handle horses safely and effectively.

• Ninja Kitchen
  Stop for lunch at a cafe staffed entirely by ninjas. Sophisticated gameplay reveals principles of food safety.

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

• Science of Soil
  Fill gaps in undergraduates' knowledge of key concepts in the Soils and Environmental Sciences

• Crazy About Corn