Virginia Agriculture in the Classroom provides educators and students with information, lesson plans, activities, and state contacts to increase agricultural literacy.
National Agriculture in the Classroom offers lesson plans, virtual field trips, and teacher resources to bring educational standards to life, with agriculture, in K-12 classrooms.
Kids Marketplace is a financial simulation adapted for elementary children. Students receive a job and a monthly income in play money and decide how to spend it at the animal shelter, fun station, grocery store, bank, and other expense stations. Students are encouraged to save a portion of their income and contribute some to charity. Youth travel between stations like furniture, pets, groceries, entertainment, and housing, where they must make economic decisions and stay on budget! This program helps youth to see the difference between needs and wants and budgeting to help prepare them for the future.
A month-long project where young people will use an incubator with the goal of successfully incubating avian embryos (growing inside fertile eggs) through the hatching process. This project can teach basic biology and life science to students, as the young people eagerly look forward to hatching chicks. Kits cost $20 and include all materials, including at least one lesson from the 4-H Agent.
The 4-H Natural Resources and Environmental Education program offers many different projects in wildlife, forestry, fishing, outdoor adventure, and environmental education. Through these projects, you learn to think critically about the natural world and sustainable living.