4-H Resource Links

The following resources and web sites provide a wide variety of information for you to use in guiding your club members toward a rich and rewarding 4-H experience.

Ages & Stages (2 pages, 67 KB)

As a leader you will be working with 4-H members and you will have an important role in helping 4-H members grow and develop. Start where members are in their development and encourage them to grow physically, socially, intellectually and emotionally.

Experiential Learning Model (1 page, 159 KB) pdf version

Experiential learning encourages thinking, working harder and ultimately learning more thoroughly than just showing or telling.

Targeting Life Skills Model (1 page, 144 KB) pdf version

A skill is a learned ability to do something well. Life skills are abilities individuals can learn that will help them to be successful in living a productive and satisfying life. In 4-H, every activity we do should be focused on building life skills for members, leaders, and/or parents.

Multiple Intelligence Chart (2 pages, 52 KB) pdf version

Multiple intelligences claims that we respond, individually, in different ways to different kinds of content, such as language or music or other people.  This is very different form the notion of learning style.

Four Essential Elements of Positive Youth Development ( 1 page, 51 KB) pdf version

40 Developmental Assets (1 page, 85 KB)

Search Institute® has identified the following building blocks of healthy development—known as Developmental Assets®—that help young people grow up healthy, caring, and responsible.

Community Clubs Central Wisconsin 4-H ~ http://4h.uwex.edu/clubs/indes.cfm

4-H Community Club Central provides a variety of resources to 4-H Club Leadership teams. Feel free to utilize these resources in your ever-important role of club leadership.

Minnesota 4-H Club Management ~ http://www.fourh.umnm.edu/downloads/4HMG/

As a volunteer/paid staff working with 4-Hers, we hope that you find this Minnesota Management Guide a useful tool for you and your club. This Guide is a collection of resources and practical information about the MN 4-H Youth Development Program.

New Jersey 4-H Leader Training Series ~ http://www.nj4h.rutgers.edu/volunteering/lts/

The New Jersey 4-H Leader Training Series is a wonderful resource for 4-H volunteers. It contains a wealth of information from how to start a club to planning field trips to how to work with youth.

4-H Volunteers USA ~ http://4hvolunteersusa.org/

All 4-H members, volunteers and professionals are welcome to use the resources found throughout this site.

Search Institutes 40 Development Assets ~ http://www.search-institute.org/assets/

Search Institute's 40 Developmental Assets® are concrete, common sense, positive experiences and qualities essential to raising successful young people. These assets have the power during critical adolescent years to influence choices young people make and help them become caring, responsible adults.

America's Promise ~ http://www.americaspromise.org/APA.aspx

All children need support and guidance from caring adults in their families, at schools and in their communities. These include ongoing, secure relationships with parents as well as formal and informal relationships with teachers, mentors, coaches, youth volunteers and neighbors.

 

 

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