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ANIMAL SCIENCE SERIES – BEEF – GRADES 3-9
                                                                                                                                     Includes Bite into Beef, On the Mooove, Leading the Charge, and Beef Group Activity Guide. Each guide includes an achievement program to provide challenging activities, a way to expand project experiences beyond the animal, and a means to recognize youth for what they have accomplished.
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ANIMAL SCIENCE SERIES – CAT – GRADES 3-9
                                                                                                                                     Manual includes Purrr-fect Pals, Climbing Up, Cat Connections and Cat Group Activity Guide.   Want to learn about cats? This manual can help you! Includes lots of activities to help youth learn about cats and how to care for them.
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ANIMAL SCIENCE SERIES – DAIRY – GRADES 3-9
                                                                                                                                     This series contains: Dig into Dairy, Moooving Ahead, Leading the Way, and a Dairy Group Activity Guide. This project activity guide is for boys and girls who may or may not have a dairy animal of their own. The important thing is that they want to learn.
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ANIMAL SCIENCE SERIES – DOG – GRADES 3-9
                                                                                                                                     Manual includes Wriggles 'n' Wags, Bounding Ahead, Pointing the way, and Dog Group Activity Guide. An excellent way to learn all about dogs and gain life skills too!
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ANIMAL SCIENCE SERIES - FARM ANIMALS – GRADES 1-3
                                                                                                                                     Consists of Exploring Farm Animals: Helper's Group Activity Guide for Youth 6 to 8 Years Old. Through experiential (active) learning activities related to animal agriculture 1st to 3rd graders will develop life skills. In other words, youth learn skills that help them get through life as well as specific information about animals
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ANIMAL SCIENCE SERIES – GOAT – GRADES 3-9
                                                                                                                                     Manual includes Getting your Goat, Stepping Out, Showing the Way, and Goat Group Activity Guide.  Excellent activities that help to develop important life skills.
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ANIMAL SCIENCE SERIES – HORSE – SKILL LEVEL; BEGINNER, INTERMEDIATE AND ADVANCED
                                                                                                                                   Manual includes: Horsing Around, Galloping Ahead, Blazing the Way, and Horse Group Activity Guide. This project activity guide is for boys and girls who may or may not have a horse or pony of their own. The important thing is that they want to learn about horses.
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ANIMAL SCIENCE SERIES – PETS – SKILL LEVEL; BEGINNER, INTERMEDIATE AND ADVANCED
                                                                                                                                   Manual contains: Pet Pals, Scurrying Ahead, Scaling the Heights, and Pet Group Activity Guide. Included are learning-by-doing activities that can be adapted to the family, the classroom, 4-H project groups, clubs or other groups
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ANIMAL SCIENCE SERIES – POULTRY – SKILL LEVEL; BEGINNER, INTERMEDIATE AND ADVANCED
                                                                                                                                   This manual contains four separate project books: Poultry Group Activity Guide, Scratching the Surface, Testing your Wings, and Flocking Together. Each of these guides includes an achievement program to encourage youth to learn more about poultry while developing important life skills.
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ANIMAL SCIENCE SERIES – RABBIT
                                                                                                                                   These project activity guides are created for youth to learn about rabbits. Included are: Hop to It! A Jump Ahead! Leaps and Bounds: A Leadership Guide and Rabbit and Group Activity Guide.
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ANIMAL SCIENCE SERIES – SHEEP – GRADES 3-9
                                                                                                                                   Series includes: Lambs, Rams and You, Shear Delight, Leading the Flock and Sheep Group Activity Guide. The three youth guides in the sheep series are designed for beginner, intermediate and advanced learners respectively.
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ANIMAL SCIENCE SERIES – SWINE – SKILL LEVEL; BEGINNER, INTERMEDIATE AND ADVANCED
                                                                                                                                   Series contains: Squeal Appeal, Hamming It Up, Going whole Hog, and Swine Group Activity Guide. Each activity in this guide includes a description of the activity, a description of the life skill to be emphasized, follow-up questions, suggestions for additional activities, and helpful information. Activities are designed so that young person has an opportunity to learn by doing, before being told or shown how.
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ANIMAL WELFARE AND RIGHTS
                                                                                                                                   This 2-hour video discusses animal welfare and animal rights. Examples of proper animal care are shown and suggestions are given by 4-Her's currently caring for animals. VHS video. Time: 120:00
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AQUATIC MAESTRO – GRADES 3-12
                                                                                                                                        A tropical fish kit.  Includes 3 units, unit I: Keeping Fish Alive -Teaches the basics of home aquarium management. Unit II: Special Aquarium Set-ups - Shows how aquariums can be adapted to meet the needs of specific fish. Unit III: Live Plants in the Aquarium: Discusses selection, cultivation and propagation of live plants in the home aquarium.  9 VHS videos.
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BACTERIA KIT
                                                                                                                                        Use our petri dishes to create a bacteria farm.  Children can take samples from their environment and even their own bodies!  Children will have fun and learn while they watch bacteria grow.
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BENEFICIAL INSECTS
                                                                                                                                        Display of insects with descriptions.
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BUGS AND OTHER INSECTS
                                                                                                                                        Uses nonfiction materials that provides a variety of activities.
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BUGS DON'T BUG US
                                                                                                                                        This video gives you a bug's eye view on bugs. Helps children to see the beauty in insects. Amazing photography that takes the ickyness out of insects! VHS Video Time: 20 min.
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BUTTERFLY GARDEN KIT
                                                                                                                                        Help your students raise live butterflies and release them into the natural environment.   Students will get to observe changes in the growth and reproduction of live butterflies.     The big challenge is to keep them alive. Kit includes an easy-to assemble 12 square-inch butterfly garden box, a feeding kit, fascinating facts, a redemption for live caterpillars and instructions.
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COTURNIX QUAIL
                                                                                                                                        This book is about the anatomy and histology of the Coterie Quail.
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DOG TRAINING PROJECTS 4 YOUTH
                                                                                                                                        Discusses training and competition approaches in obedience, conformation, showmanship, and tracking.  Teaches techniques, grooming and problem solving.  A basis for any type of dog training project for children.
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EMBRYOLOGY FOR YOUTH
                                                                                                                                        Teaches youth about the beginnings of life.  Embryology is the scientific study of the formation, early growth and development of living organisms.  Includes fertile eggs, incubator, turner, brooder, and teachers guide.
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ENTOMOLOGY – GRADES 3-12
                                                                                                                                       

Entomology 1-Creepy crawlies-Project activity guide on bugs.  Activities include: Big bug, small bug, Blink, chirp, waggle dance!   To bug or not and antennae alert.

Entomology 2-Whats bugging you? -Project activity guide on bugs.  Activities include: Sights and sounds, pinning and labeling, computer bugs and this or that.

Entomology 3-Dragons, houses and other flies-Project activity guide.  Activities include: Using the scientific method, experiencing leadership, learning to learn, and practicing observation.

Entomology group helpers guide-Helpers guide includes: Learning to learn, relating to others, communicating with others, and leading self and others.

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ENTOMOLOGY MANUAL
                                                                                                                                        Includes: Handbook of the Insect World, The Insect World: 1 & 2, 4-H Insect Study, and Pesticides in your 4-H Project: 1,2 & 3 gives insect descriptions, shows how to pin and mount insects, and explains different stages of growth.
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EVERY TIME EVERY RIDE
                                                                                                                                        This educational video on head injury prevention is a must for all riders, instructors, horse clubs and parents of children who ride. VHS: Video 20 minutes.
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EXPLORE THE WORLD OF SMALL ANIMALS – GRADES K-2
                                                                                                                                        Includes: Health, nutrition and care.  How to develop an appreciation for and understanding of animal well being, to develop an awareness of science, to provide the opportunity for personal development through animals.
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EXPLORING EARTHWORMS WITH ME
                                                                                                                                        Youngsters will learn all about earthworms and understand their positive impacts on the environment. Through hands-on experiments, students will learn where to find earthworms and discover worm reactions to stimuli with varying environmental conditions and lots more! Perfect for teaching about how living things adapt to their environment.
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FISHY SCIENCE – GRADES 3-5
                                                                                                                                        A unique hands-on approach to learning about fish.  The lessons can be used on a stand-alone basis or in sequence as a comprehensive unit of study.
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4-H CHICK HATCHING PROJECT
                                                                                                                                        This project provides opportunities for youth to learn about poultry, how embryos develop, how to care for eggs and the miracle of hatching.  VHS video.  Time: 13:26
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GEE WHIZ IN AGRICULTURE
                                                                                                                                       

Chickens and Piglets and Lambs-This program looks at the pre-and postnatal growth and development and birth of several common species of domestic livestock.  Students will see embryos and learn how they develop inside the uterus of the egg.

From Moo To You-Introduces students to the dairy cow, how she produces milk, how milk is processed, and the many products made from milk, and the fact that milk and milk products are nutritious.

How Do You Grow A Fish Sandwich-Introduces students to the concept of aquaculture and hydroponics.   These science-based technologies will be used to explain a closed system in nature.

Now Ear This-Introduces students to the sciences of genetics; agronomy, plant physiology, chemistry, biology and microbiology using corn and corn products as examples.

Water Heroes-Provides students with overview of our water resource and both the positive and negative influences humans can have upon it.

What’s Bugging You-This program focuses on the role of insects in our environment and aspects of insect biology and behavior.

Why Can A Cow Eat Grass-Introduces students to the concepts of anatomy of grass eating animals, species relations in zoological classification, evolution and symbiosis.

Why Do Horses Run So Fast-Focuses on the differences and similarities between human and equine athletes, introduces students to anatomy and physiology via skeletons, x-rays, heart monitors, real-time and slow motion video comparisons, and computerized imaging.

Wood You Take Care Of Me-Introduces students to the concepts of the value of our nation forests, the manufacturing process from raw materials to finished products, and the role of trees in world ecology.

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HEY THAT’S MY HAY
                                                                                                                                        Have you ever wondered what its like to be a cow?  This video discusses the daily activities a cow goes through.
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LADYBUGS – PRESCHOOL TO GRADE 1
                                                                                                                                        Ladybugs teaches science concepts through observation; comparison, discussion, short drama, and role-playing. Math and role-playing are interwoven within these activities. Thirteen 45- to 60-minute sessions.
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1993 LIVESTOCK
                                                                                                                                        This is an international judging contest video.  38 min.
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MICRO-DATA CARD
                                                                                                                                        Credit card sized slides that preserved real specimens and identifies part of these organisms.
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PESTS HAVE ENEMIES TOO
                                                                                                                                        This book was designed to help young scientists become aware of what biological control is and how it can be used to help manage various types of pest organisms that plague humanity.
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REALLY WILD ANIMALS
                                                                                                                                        Series of videotapes covering topics from Adventures in Asia to Dinosaurs.
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SUPER SEASHELLS
                                                                                                                                        Kit includes: 25 different seashells and other sea life specimens, sea life identification photo, 17 activity cards, magnifying glass, and more!!!!
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THE NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION 1992
                                                                                                                                        This kit includes 2 cassette tapes and 123 slides.  “We Care About Oceans” and “We Care About Eagles” are included.
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THE USPC MANUAL OF HORSEMANSHIP
                                                                                                                                        This manual is for youngsters who want to learn to ride and want to meet the USPC’s Standards of Proficiency.  It will show you how to become a careful, thoughtful rider and how to communicate with and understand your pony.
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TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT (TQM) CURRICULUM FOR YOUTH PRODUCERS:  LEADERS GUIDE AND 17 LEARNING ACTIVITIES FOR YOUTH-AGES 9-19
                                                                                                                                        A teaching aid for adults who work with youth involved in livestock projects.  This curriculum includes a 35 minute introductory program, instructions for 17 hands on learning activities, and a series of 20 brief video segments (6 to 9 minutes each) to use with the learning activities.  Kit also includes a manual and a VHS video.
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VITAMIN E FOR BEEF CATTLE
                                                                                                                                        This video focuses on the need of vitamin 8 by beef cattle. It explains the functions of Vitamin 8 and how it affects cattle when it is sufficient and insufficient. Kit contains a manual and a VHS video.
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VITAMIN E FOR SWINE
                                                                                                                                        This video explores the need of Vitamin E in swine. It also explains the functions and need for Vitamin E. Kit contains a manual and a VHS video.
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WELCOME TO THE 4-H ANIMAL SCIENCE ACADEMIC QUADRATHLON
                                                                                                                                        This management guide assists you in carrying out one of the newest concepts in animal science teaching-the Academic Quadrathlon. The goal is to learn more about animals you are unfamiliar with, to make new friends, to utilize teamwork to accomplish a challenge, and to have fun while learning.
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