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Extension-Developed Activities Skillathons & Lesson PlansNumber of resources found: 28
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OMK Connects Deployment Cycle Support Yellow Ribbon Programming to Youth
Language: English
Author: Harries, Kia
Publisher: CYFERnet (2010)
Description: Helping young people cope with the deployment of a loved one is the focus of this 60-lesson curriculum, emphasizing life skills throughout the deployment cycle. Review the curriculum and companion volunteer training guide, learn how these lessons can be used in a variety of settings with a mixture of ages, and how to involve the family in the conversations after the lesson.
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4-H Games
Language: English
Publisher: Utah 4-H (2010)
Description: The 4-H Program wouldn't truly be 4-H without Games! Here are some game activities that you use to lead fun, group forming activities. The activities and games are divided into four sections: 4-H Activities, Group Activities, Ice Breakers, and Problem Solving. series of brief (1-2 page) that can be used by group Facilitator or participant.
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4-H Geospatial Programming Resources
Language: English
Author: Dunham, Trudy
Publisher: CYFERnet (2010)
Description: This page supports all who work with geospatial programs in 4-H and CYFAR, with opportunities for program staff and members to interact with experts and each other, build skills, share program ideas, and develop their programs. Links to valuable curriculum and program resources are also provided.
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Engineering: Making It Real
Language: English
Author: Dunham, Trudy
Publisher: CYFERnet (2009, updated 2011)
Description: Engineering is a fun job because you get to use your imagination to create things that don’t exist yet. Engineers use math and science skills to turn a drawing or an idea into reality. In the past century, engineers have changed everyone’s lives by bringing us electricity, mechanized farming, air travel, compact disks and much more. Here are some activities you can make, then use your imagination to create what doesn't yet exist.
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eSource: Games & Activities for 4-H events
Language: English
Publisher: New Mexico State University Extension (2009, updated 2011)
Description: The 4-H Program wouldn't truly be 4-H without Games! Here are some game activities that you use to lead fun, group forming activities. Ice breaker games, tag games and other fun games to use with youth or adults.
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Fair Food, Fun and Games
Language: English
Author: Dunham, Trudy
Publisher: CYFERnet (2007, updated 2011)
Description: Step right up to state fair season with CYFERnet! Discover the secrets behind the deep-fried, the thrill ride, and those impossible carnival games with a trio of fun activities. Includes recipes and why fair food tastes so good, and the science behind fair rides and midway challenges.
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Games Around the World
Language: English
Publisher: University of Florida (2007, updated 2011)
Description: The 4-H Program wouldn't truly be 4-H without Games! The games are reprinted from Games and Sports the World Around, 3rd edition, by Sarah Ethridge Hunt, Copyright 1964 by the Ronald Press Company, and reprinted with permission from John Wiley & Sons, Inc; Turkish Games for Health and Recreation, by Barbara K. Walker and Warren S. Walker, 1983, Archive of Turkish Oral Narrative, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, and reprinted with permission from Barbara W. Walker; and Hawaiian Games for Today by Donald Mitchell. Where appropriate, changes have been made to indicate that these games are to be played by both boys and girls. Games are identified by their continent and country of origin.
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Hands-On Healthy Eating and Exercise
Language: English
Author: Peutz, Joey
Publisher: CYFERnet (2007)
Description: Want to get children thinking about healthy eating and exercise? You can be a part of the good health solution by teaching youth about the nutrition and encouraging physical activity. These hands-on activities reinforce the concepts.
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Mission of the Month: Backyard Bird Count
Language: English
Author: Dunham, Trudy
Publisher: CYFERnet (2010)
Description: This is an easy project for CYFAR programs to pull together. Just count the birds (by species) in your backyard (or other convenient location) for 15 minutes (or longer) on one of these 4 days. There are a few more rules, but it is an uncomplicated way to add citizen science and community service activities to your program, as well as introducing the key issues of biodiversity and climate change.
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Mission of the Month: Biodiversity
Language: English
Author: Dunham, Trudy
Publisher: CYFERnet (2010)
Description: Why should we care about biodiversity? In a world of rapid change, isn't it nice to have some sameness? While it may be pretty, convenient and efficient -- it isn't as strong and resilient as a diverse ecosystem. Check out these activities, resources and ideas to learn more about how plants or animals that are susceptible in a monoculture environment, and the extra efforts needed to sustain them. In a biodiverse ecosystem, you will see a complex web of relationships among organisms that allow them all to survive and flourish
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Mission of the Month: Capturing History- The making of a documentary
Language: English
Author: Dunham, Trudy
Publisher: CYFERnet (2008)
Description: Who are you, really? Have your skills and interests been passed down from your parents or grandparents? Where did the habits and customs of today’s American society come from? There is more to one’s history – the history of family and community – than your DNA and the names of your ancestors. What you do and how you do it is an important part of your family history. Take the time to find out how you became who you are today. Interview your family members about one aspect of life or culture that interests you. If talking to family isn’t convenient, use this as an opportunity to learn how your neighborhood became what it is today!
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Mission of the Month: CYFERnet Travel Bug Race
Language: English
Author: Dunham, Trudy
Publisher: CYFERnet (2009)
Description: Would you like to explore the planet vicariously and win a prize as well? Then don’t miss the annual CYFERnet Travel Bug Race. In September, Youth and adult teams can start touring the globe via their Travel Bug: a metal tag that allows contestants to follow their “hitchhiker” trinket. Your hitchhiker can serve as a virtual you — make a club mascot and attach it to the Travel Bug for a more personalized experience. Hitchhikers are a staple of geocaching—the Global Positioning System (GPS)-based adventure game. In geocaching, contestants place their trinkets into official geocaches anywhere in the world, register their Travel Bugs online and track them as other geochachers move them from cache to cache in the real world. The more miles your bug travels, the higher your score in the CYFERnet Travel Bug Race. Read on to learn more.
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Mission of the Month: DNA
Language: English
Author: Staker, Jay
Publisher: CYFERnet (2008)
Description: This month, we examine inner space – DNA, a part of your body that is too small to see, but that makes each living thing unique. After examining what DNA is and why it is in the news today, there are two activities. You may extract actual DNA from banana cells using some commonly found materials and tools. You can also debate the pros and cons of manipulating DNA, a field known as genetic engineering. DNA is the code for life. Each of the cells in your body holds strings of DNA that are too small to see even with a microscope. But even though it is very small, it is very important. It defines what you look like and many other things about you. Learn more about DNA
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Mission of the Month: Drinking Water
Language: English
Author: Staker, Jay
Publisher: CYFERnet (2008)
Description: More than two-thirds of the surface of our planet is covered with water, and yet we are facing water shortages! These statements seem contradictory at first, but let's look more closely at water. What is it? When people talk about water they can mean different things. Water is a chemical compound made of 2 hygrogen atoms and 1 oxygen atom, H2O. Water is also what comes out of your faucet. That water is more than H2O -- it also contains minerals, oxygen, and other things such as chlorine, which purifies the water. Water is also found in bottles in shops. But the contents of these bottles varies a lot!
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Mission of the Month: Engineering and Bridges
Language: English
Author: Dunham, Trudy
Publisher: CYFERnet (2008)
Description: February hosts National Engineers Week, so this month’s Mission of the Month is all about engineering, and one type of engineering project — bridges. Engineers take the principles of science and math and apply them directly to making things or solving problems. There are many types of engineers and your lives are touched by their work every day. Engineers help make things safe. Buildings, roads, bridges, machines, cars, toys, computers, clothes, furniture, food, bicycles, planes, rockets, boats, pens, medicines, replacement joints, artificial heart valves and cell phones are just a short list of what engineers dream up or improve. They design rides at Disneyland and toys like the Slinky. They are involved in every step of these processes from design, manufacture, testing, and repair.Engineering is a field that offers a wide variety of opportunities for careers that are rewarding personally and financially. As you do this month’s Mission, think about your future and whether you might like to be an engineer. Read more about engineering as a career.
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Mission of the Month: Engineering- Designing Issues
Language: English
Author: Staker, Jay
Publisher: CYFERnet (2011)
Description: Do you enjoy puzzles and challenges? Would you like a career that is about making the lives of others better? Does the idea of being a part of a team that works to cure a disease like cancer, or to solve major problems such as climate change, sound more like what you would like to do with your life? Then maybe you do want to be an engineer! Check out this Mission for a variety of hands on activities and challenges that draw on your engineering skills and innovation -- from constructing a trebuchet to designing a life-size puppet!
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Mission of the Month: Growth and Gardens
Language: English
Author: Dunham, Trudy
Publisher: CYFERnet (2007)
Description: Interested in plants? Here is an opportunity to do citizen science, or just plain science by digging in the dirt, identifying plants, and other activities and science projects.
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Mission of the Month: How many worlds would it take?
Language: English
Author: Dunham, Trudy
Publisher: CYFERnet (2008)
Description: The way we live – traveling, eating, staying warm in the winter – has a cost to the earth. But some of us use more resources to support our lifestyles than others. Some people tread lightly on the earth, and others use more than their share of what the earth has to offer us. How many worlds we need to support ourselves if everyone on earth lived the way we do? There are a lot of factors to consider. The concept of "carrying capacity", the number of living things - plants as well as animals - that an area of land or water can support at any one time might be a good starting point. This and other activities support your exploration of this topic.
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Mission of the Month: Innovation and Exploration
Language: English
Author: Dunham, Trudy
Publisher: CYFERnet (2007, unpdated 2011)
Description: CYFERnet celebrates National Engineers Week and Black History Month with a tribute to inventors and innovation. We also begin to explore how seasons change with our "It's a Mystery" project. To get the ball rolling, follow the steps listed under each activity.
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Mission of the Month: Into The Vortex – All About Tornadoes
Language: English
Author: Dunham, Trudy
Publisher: CYFERnet (2009, updated 2011)
Description: As the US enters tornado season, there is a lot to know about these funnel-shaped summer storms. What causes them? How strong are their winds? Which months have the most tornadoes? There are lots of ways to study tornadoes without getting close to them. This month’s mission will get you building a tornado model, studying the ways of these fierce storms, learning how to prepare for storm season, plus some things to do if a tornado should hit.
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Mission of the Month: Let's Not "Blow" Our Energy Future! It's In the Wind
Language: English
Author: Staker, Jay
Publisher: CYFERnet (2011)
Description: Wind is an energy source that nature provides to us. What is wind? Where does wind come from? How can wind be used to provide energy for our future? These are all basic questions that need to be considered when we think about wind energy.
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Mission of the Month: Music and Sound
Language: English
Author: Dunham, Trudy
Publisher: CYFERnet (2009)
Description: A song is in the air – but how? When you hear music, how does the sound get from the instrument, radio or iPod to your ear? How do musical instruments actually make sound? This month’s mission focuses on the science of sound, and how to make music – physically and digitally. How to see sound waves in motion.
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Mission of the Month: Nano - The Science & Technology of Small
Language: English
Author: Staker, Jay
Publisher: CYFERnet (2011)
Description: Why is Nano so big in today's world? Because our technologies have developed enough for us to see the teeny tiny particles that make up our world. And our science is advancing so we understand how these tiny particles work. Just what is nano? Check out these activities for greater understanding of nano and how it works!
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Mission of the Month: Secret Codes - Know What No One Else Knows
Language: English
Author: Staker, Jay
Publisher: CYFERnet (2008)
Description: "The main thing is to pay attention, pay close attention, to everything. Notice what no one else notices. Then you'll know what no one else knows, and that's always useful." Secret Codes. Vanishing objects. Hidden meanings. Mysteries are all around us! This month CYFERnet offers a few of them for you to solve using your best analytical thinking, and a little digging through history!
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Mission of the Month: Surf and Sail
Language: English
Author: Dunham, Trudy
Publisher: CYFERnet (2007, updated 2011)
Description: Just in time for the sizzling summer heat, CYFERnet dives into another cool Mission. Learn about waves, wind power and boat building through exciting experiments, investigations, creative activities and some healthy competition:
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Mission of the Month:Adventures in Aerospace
Language: English
Author: Dunham, Trudy
Publisher: CYFERnet (2007)
Description: From Mars explorations to star counting to space parties, this month, youth can go to infinity and beyond with four stellar activities:
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Online, Issues Based, Science Learning through CYFERnet's Mission of the Month
Language: English
Author: Staker, Jay
Publisher: CYFERnet (2011)
Description: Mission of the Month is an online learning opportunity, for youth to experience fun science, engineering, and technology embedded in real-life issues such as hunger, climate change, and biodiversity. Monthly missions are offered on the CYFERnet website. Missions offer a range of experiences and can be used in a variety of settings. Sample missions will be experienced in a hands-on session, including resources from the public television show, SciGirls.
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The Climb: Mastering Self and Aconcagua
Language: English
Author: Dunham, Trudy
Publisher: CYFERnet (2011)
Description: Steve Brown climbs Aconcagua, the highest mountain outside of the Himalayas. Activities support youth planning and training for an outdoor expedition, and the physical realities of such treks. Includes background information and reflection questions on mountaineering traditions, health and measurement.
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