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Soil Solutions

Third Grade 4-H School Enrichment Curriculum Correlated to the third grade science objectives with the Common Core and NC Essential Standards. Eight engaging lessons can be utilized by teachers or volunteers working in schools to enrich student’s conceptual understanding in the area of plant and soils.

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Strawberries in Schools

Growing a strawberry garden at your school provides students with a hands-on space to explore the life cycle of a plant and an understanding of cultivating food. Explore ideas on how to grow strawberries in an annual production system and browse a few lessons by expert teachers for possibilities of what to learn from the garden.

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Busy World of Bees

This curriculum is crafted to engage youth in celebrating bees and their pollinator allies and build an understanding of the benefits that bees and other pollinators provide to humans, as well as the fact that all bees need our help to do their work. Youth will also explore the diversity and differences within habitats and garner further understanding of what honey bees, native bees and other pollinators need to grow and thrive.

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Hive Helpers

Every spring and summer, youth and adults alike enjoy sweet-smelling flowers and listening to the buzzing sound that comes from the rapidly beating wings of busy bees. Through a series of seven lessons and multiple experiential activities, youth will learn how critical bees are to our agricultural industry and native ecosystems. 

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Winged Wonders

Follow the wondrous transformation of the caterpillar of a painted lady butterfly into a chrysalis to the emergence of a fancy, flighted adult butterfly! Winged Wonders is a hands-on exploration of animal life cycles through the lens of raising live butterflies. Youth explore the parts of an insect, habitat, life cycle and grow an appreciation and understanding of the role of insects as part of our ecosystems.

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Soil to Seed

‘Soil to Seed: Protecting Water Quality through Soil Erosion and Sediment Control’ is a curriculum that engages young people in actively identifying water quality issues impacted by soil erosion and sedimentation within their community using an experiential learning approach. The curriculum has been designed to weave together environmental education objectives with interactive lessons on soil erosion that utilize the surrounding school campus as a situated learning environment.

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Vermicomposting

The 4-H Vermicomposting program offers fifth-grade students an opportunity to explore a micro-community. This community contains producers, consumers, and decomposers (as all communities do), and students are encouraged to reflect upon their learning as they achieve mastery of the concepts.

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Bug Out

Bug out is a second grade 4-H school enrichment curriculum that focuses on insects and their life cycles. Learn to raise bugs in a bottle, mealworms and other hands-on investigations that build an appreciation and interest in insects!

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Junior Master Gardener

The Junior Master Gardener Program is a national 4-H curriculum that brims with numerous fun, hands-on activities that can be utilized in a number of ways. From earning a JMG certification, to use in after-school activities, or implemented by schools, JMG offers a variety of engaging lessons for youth in gardening.

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Other Gardening/Farming Curriculum

Many other state Cooperative Extensions, non-profits, schools and other community-based groups have developed a wealth of resources to support youth garden programming.

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More Soils Curriculum

This is a collection of assorted curriculum (with good information!) and other resources that may be useful in your exploration of soils!

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4-H Agriculture & Natural Resources

4-H provides nationally reviewed curriculum as great starting point for explorations in agriculture, natural resources, gardening and entomology.

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