ABOUT YOU & ME-AGES 5-7

This is a personal development program designed specifically for first graders.

ADVENTURES IN LEARNING

A school age care curriculum discussing personal development, healthy lifestyle, environmental education, plants and animals.

ALL ABOUT ME: DEVELOPING SELF-IMAGE AND SELF-ESTEEM WITH HANDS-ON LEARNING ACTIVITIES

Helps children to develop a positive self-image, a strong sense of self-worth, and to reinforce their understanding of important basic skills. Children will become aware of themselves as individuals, their families, friends, and other people around them.

ALONE AFTER SCHOOL: A SELF-CARE GUIDE FOR LATCHKEY CHILDREN AND THEIR PARENTS

For working parents, this family workbook helps you design a self-care program with your children's health, safety and well-being in mind. Provides tools to judge your children’s readiness for being on their own, reinforce their self-care skills, and help them cope with situations.

AMERICAN PROMISE TEACHING GUIDE

It is divided into nine parts that are the challenges that face any democracy-historically and today. Includes videos and teacher’s guide book.

AMERICA’S YOUTH THE CHALLENGE AND THE OPPORTUNITY

This video focuses on the deep problems our society faces in addressing the issues of today’s children, the strengths of today’s 4H, and what must be done to mobilize this great network to support and help out children. VHS 44 min.

AQUATIC MAESTRO

4-H aquatic science manual-keeping fish alive. The purpose of this 4-H adventure is to set up and maintain a beautiful, successful aquarium.

BUILDING COMMON GROUND

Manual includes: Bringing Up a Group Together, Communicating With a Group, Negotiating and Creative Problem Solving, and Planning For Change.

CAREERS & ME-GRADES K-2

This book discusses self awareness and career awareness.

CAREER AWARENESS BIBLIOGRAPHY

Designed to inform educators and youth development professionals of quality career awareness curricula and reference materials currently available.

CAREER CAPERS - ELEM. & JR. HIGH

15 activities and 16 puzzles are included with guidelines, outlines, and reports.

CAREER WORKBOOK-GRADES 3-5

Includes career awareness activities for reading, math, language arts, and more.

CAT’S CRADLE

A book about a popular children’s game that include activities that can be made with string.

CHILD DEVELOPMENT PROJECT MANUAL

Four units: The Infant, The Toddler, The Preschooler and Middle Childhood. Helps youth understand how children grow physically, mentally, socially and emotionally from infancy through middle childhood. Included is the Sitter program, which teaches important ideas about the job of baby-sitting.

CITIZENSHIP MANUAL

These project books will explain what is good citizenship, and will help youth learn more about themselves, their families, and about their friends.

CITIZENSHIP WASHINGTON FOCUS VIDEO

This program designed for high school students uses a hands-on approach to citizenship education. Through experiential learning, every participant connects to citizenship in a personal action oriented way. VHS 7 min.

CLOVER KIDS: AN EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM FOR 5 TO 7 YEAR-OLDS

Contains activities and suggestions used in the classroom or after school programs. Includes Clowning, Mystery, Magic, Human body, Physical Skills, and Pets.

CLOVERBUDS DISCOVER PROGRAM-AGES 6-8

It’s goals are to build self-esteem through successful experiences; and to help youth become more creative. Included are activity sheets and important planning tips.

COMMUNICATION MADE EASY

A 4H guide to presenting information on communication and how to present information by using various types of media.

COMMUNICATION MANUAL 4H PROJECT BOOKS

Includes: Speak Up Young People, Speak Out With 4H, The Organized Public Speaker, The How and Why of Demonstrations, Handbook on Demonstrations, 4H Judging, and more.

CREATIVE MOMENTS-AGES 4-9

Activities, which encourage your children to develop as individuals in relationship to the world around them. Included are Creative Games, Design Ideas, Discovery Experiments, Challenge Cards and Story Projects.

D.E.C.I.D.E

This manual helps you identify the whole decision making process with a six step model. Define, Examine, Consider, Identify, Decide, and Evaluate.

DEVELOPMENT DURING MIDDLE CHILDHOOD:

AGES 6-12

Describes middle childhood, a period of development often overshadowed by early childhood and adolescence.

DEVELOPMENTALLY APPROPRIATE PRACTICE IN EARLY CHILDHOOD PROGRAMS-AGES BIRTH TO 8 YRS. OLD: EXPANDED EDITION

Guidelines will help people make informed decisions about the education of young children.

DEVELOPMENTALLY APPROPRIATE PRACTICE IN SCHOOL-AGE CHILD CARE PROGRAMS

First part presents principles of developmentally appropriate programming. Second part illustrates the principles with specific practices.

DREAM CATCHER’S ACTIVITY SHEETS-CAREER AWARENESS

This book contains 75 activities for intermediate grades to enhance and expand the concepts to integrate the activities into your lessons plans.

DREAM CATCHER’S TEACHER’S GUIDE-INTERMEDIATE GRADES

Develop career and educational awareness. Written to support the student book Dream Catchers. To encourage young people to explore their skills & the world of work.

EXPLORING 4-H-GRADES K-6

For children in after school type program setting includes: l) Science & Technology. 2) Life & Leisure Skills. 3) Animals Around Us. 4) Energy Conservation. 5) Foods & Nutrition. 6) Natural Resources Biology.

FACILITATORS' GUIDE

Created to help the 4-H After School Program facilitators be more successful in their individual program teachings. Includes eleven “in service” sessions for training staff and other reproducible forms and overheads.

A FINE MOUSE BAND: A CHILDREN’S BOOK

Winsome mouse characters work and play together and tenderly illustrate real feelings and situations from young children’s everyday lives.

FOCUS ON YOUR FUTURE

This curriculum manual increases awareness of career possibilities in food and agricultural sciences.

FOUR-H ADVENTURE CLUB

Fosters life skills development in children. Defines life skills as self-confidence, social interaction with other children and adults, decision- making and growth in subject matter knowledge and physical development.

FOUR-H: AN AMERICAN IDEA

This book has 190 noteworthy dates, events, and actions that contributed to 4H history.

FOUR-H AFTERSCHOOL PROGRAM MANUAL

Helps youth professionals implement creative after school activities into programs. Focus on foods and nutrition, solar energy, natural resources and animals-horses, dogs, and cavies.

FOUR-H AFTERSCHOOL PROGRAM CURRICULUM MANUAL

Experiences on traits, attitudes and values in young people. Includes 4-H Philosophy Toward Learning and Theories, Designing Educational Curriculum: Science Exploration and Technology, Life and Leisure Skills, Animals Around Us, Exploration and Conservation, Foods and Nutrition, and Natural Resources and Ecology.

FOUR-H MORE THAN YOU EVER IMAGINED

A 4-H public service announcement and an informational video of the national 4-H Council. 8 min.

GOOD TIMES WITH CHILD CARE

Offers suggestions and provides tips on how you can help a child grow and develop to their greatest potential.

GREAT GAMES TO PLAY WITH GROUPS: A LEADER'S GUIDE

Games for primary-school children, teenagers, mixed-age groups, quiet games, active games, games for 2 people or for 40, traditional American games, and games from other nations.

HOW TO MAKE MEETINGS WORK

A book designed to help you to stop wasting time and get things done at meetings.

HOW TO WORK WITH SCHOOL AGE CHILDREN AND LOVE THEM

Talks about “The Clubhouse”, which can be described as a philosophy of helping children grow up, but actually is so much more. Author explains her ideas on how to work with love and school aged children.

IN CHARGE

A complete handbook for kids with working parents. Discusses how to be prepared for anything when you’re home alone like coping with medical emergencies, dealing with plumbing, blackouts, fire and other household disasters, making house rules and schedules, fixing 30-minute meals, etc.

AN INTRODUCTION YOUTH VOLUNTEERS AS RESOURCES

Manual that discusses how to define youth issues, that the staff must believe in volunteers, empowerment for life skills, role of adult mentors, description of life skills, a co-created outcome, importance of administrative support.

AN INTRODUCTION TO BOARDS, COUNCILS AND COMMITTEES

Manual that discusses terms, focus of BBC’s within volunteers for the future, and the volunteer system framework.

KEYS TO QUALITY YOUTH DEVELOPMENT

Discusses eight keys to quality youth development: Premise, Building a Foundation, Selecting Outcomes, Identifying Practices, How it Works, Things to Think About, Words of Wisdom, and Questions for Youth.

KIDSCOPE-AGES 9-12

Children will learn how to cope when they are home alone. Information covered is important to children’s’ safety and development. Includes activity book and teachers manual.

KID'S TEAM! AGES 8-14

Tools to empower kids to look at their time, plan and discuss how to use it during a day when their schools are not in session. Their self-esteem will rise as they work toward and accomplish the goals they set forth.

LEADERSHIP AND PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT

Manual includes: Leadership Skills for Success, Working With Young People in Self Determined Projects, Your Key to Personal Development, and Teen Leaders.

LEADING THE FUTURE TRAINER’S MANUAL

The purpose of this manual is to enable you as a community leader, to enhance your life with a deeper sense of purpose, and to empower those in your families and communities to do the same.

LEADING THE WAY

Curriculum on how to build a workforce preparation effort in your community.

MAGIC SCHOOL BUS

Series of videos that discuss topics ranging from: exploring outer space, exploring gardens, what makes the weather, etc.

MANAGEMENT MANUAL

Topics such as child care needs, designing a program, business operations, managing a program, discipline, developmental needs of school-age children, snacks, and scheduling are discussed.

MATH TALK-20 VIDEOS

Covers a range of topics that include: explore scale and ratio, thinking about large numbers, exploring probability, using graphs, conducting surveys, making triangles, measuring perimeter and area, playing with positive and negative numbers, estimating, interpreting statistics, understanding averages, exploring factors and multiples, etc.

MATH TALK: AN INTRODUCTION FOR TEACHERS

This video and workbook introduced teachers to the Math Talk program. Math Talk is produced by the Children’s Television Workshop (CTW).

MATH TALK TEACHER’S GUIDE

Use this activity and curriculum guide to accompany the Math Talk tapes. Includes reproducible pages to accompany activities and for students.

MORE NEW GAMES!... AND PLAYFUL IDEAS FROM THE NEW GAMES FOUNDATION

Rules for 60 New Games for two or 200 people. New approaches to participation and winning, essays on games inventing and adaptation, and a capsule version of a New Games Training.

MY OWN FUN: CREATIVE LEARNING ACTIVITIES FOR HOME AND SCHOOL, AGES 7-12.

Topics include Crayon and Paint, Paper craft, Pastes and Putties, Sea and Land, Name Games, Outdoor Games, Games from Other Countries, Board Games and Timers, and more!

NATIONAL 4H RECOGNITION MODEL TRAINING MANUAL

Provides a framework to develop a creative, effective, and balanced recognition program that supports the development of life skills.

THE NEW GAMES BOOK: PLAY HARD, PLAY FAIR, NOBODY HURT-60 NEW GAMES

Games for 2-200 people that is descriptively illustrated with 250 photographs. Includes everything you want to know about New Games- how they came to be, how to playfully referee them, and how to create your own New Games tournament.

THE NEW YOUTH CHALLENGE: A MODEL FOR WORKING WITH OLDER CHILDREN IN SCHOOL-AGE CHILD CARE

Opportunities to make a real difference in someone's life. But to be effective in our new role it is necessary to develop an integrated approach to youth care. Stresses that we must be able to see clearly and our methods must be systematic and visionary.

NEWSPAPER FUN

How many activities can you do using the newspaper? There are 40 different activities that you can do with them using the newspaper in this book.

NO TIME TO WASTE: AN ACTION AGENDA FOR SCHOOL AGE CHILD CARE

Addresses the scarcity of affordable, quality programs for children during the out-of-school hours. It believes that latchkey children are considered a normal thing and that there is no time to waste to remedy the situation.

OFF TO ADVENTURE-GRADES K-3

24 Guided activities that offers young children the opportunity to explore and learn about their world in a positive environment.

ON MY OWN

This book has more than 125 activities to prepare children to take care of themselves when parents aren’t home before and after school.

PARENT TRICKS-OF-THE TRADE

Busy, harried parents-experienced and inexperienced- will find in this book hundreds of time and money-saving solutions to common problems of raising children.

PARENTS & KIDS TOGETHER

A book of creative ideas and learning activities to help you more fully share the time you have together. Make your daily routines an enriching and enjoyable experiences for your child.

PATHFINDER

Activities in this book will help you identify jobs that interest you and will help you with career and educational planning.

PORTRAIT OF YOUNG ADOLESCENTS IN THE 1990S: IMPLICATIONS FOR PROMOTING HEALTHY GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT

Focuses on positive possibilities, trends and forces affecting young adolescents, policies and programs, and making a difference.

PREPARING FOR PROSPARITY

A program on how your community can create a 21^st century workforce.

PRIME TIME TOGETHER WITH KIDS

Offers creative ideas, activities, games and projects for adults to do with their children. These activities build relationships and foster self-esteem and creativity.

PUBLIC SCHOOLS AND SCHOOL-AGE CHILD CARE: MAKING IT HAPPEN!

Intended to help communities and school districts to develop school-age child care programs. Includes Section 1: Program Initiation, Section II: Program Administration and Section III: Program Implementation.

QUALITY CRITERIA FOR SCHOOL-AGE CHILD CARE PROGRAMS

Identify characteristics of high-quality programs. Offered as recommendations in program planning, assessment, and improvement activities. Can be useful in developing model legislation and requirements for accreditation, certification, and licensing.