Youth Science Education

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The workshops are highly interactive and seek to link research with practice.  The Youth Science Education program offers:

• Workshops delivered within your community
• Research based information
• Interactive activities and practical tips
• Resources
• On-going technical assistance

Curricula in the Youth Science Education program use the experiential learning model, where young people have an opportunity to participate in fun, engaging activities that promote learning and understanding through hands-on/minds-on activities.  Several curricula have loaner teaching kits available.  Teaching kits can be picked up at the UCCE Office and are available for 30 days at a time.  Renters need to replace consumable products (paper cups, straws, baking soda, etc.). 

Participation in the Youth Science Education program is available on a variety of levels:

Program Sites (PS) are cooperative ventures between your facility and the University of California Cooperative Extension’s Youth Development Program.  By designating your facility as a program site, your staff and clientele will be provided with curriculum, on-going training, support, resources, evaluation tools and possible grant support in order to sustain your program.

Curriculum Training (CT) provides your staff with six to twelve hours of hands-on training to develop the skills necessary to successfully implement a curriculum at your site.

Staff In-services (SI) are two to six hour professional development experiences that provide your staff with practical tools and resources to serve clientele at your facility.

Program Visits (PV) are one-time 1 to 3 hour visits to conduct a lesson with the clientele at your facility.

 Sample Programs and Workshops

SCIENCE

In-Touch Science Series:
Age/Grade Level: Ages 8 to 11 years
Training Fee: $30.00 per participant
Curriculum Cost: $13.00 per unit, plus shipping and sales tax
Cornell Cooperative Extension (1995)

In-Touch Science is a hands-on program that helps children communicate what they observe and learn in science, build their understanding of science connections between two fields of study, and helps students recognize science concepts in daily experiences.  Units available:

• Kitchen Science 
• Fibers and Animals  
• Chemistry and Environment 
• Foods and Fabrics 
• Plants and Engineering

Y.E.S.: Youth Experiences in Science
Age/Grade Level: Ages 5 to 8 years and Teens
Utilizes teens as teachers
Loaner teaching kit available
Training Fee: $30.00 per participant
Curriculum Cost: $75.00, plus shipping
University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources (2001)
http://anrcatalog.ucdavis.edu/4HYouthDevelopment/3404A.aspx

The YES project offers planned, thematically linked, science education experiences geared to the needs of children.  The curriculum integrates cross-age teaching and inquiry-based activities with cooperative learning.  It focuses on scientific thinking processes and features the learning cycle model of instruction.  The curriculum was developed to be used by teen teachers who are trained to lead the curriculum for children five to eight.  Units include:

• Snail Trails
• Bubble Magic
• Collections
• Kitchen Science
• Wonderful Worms
• Wee-Cyclo-Saur-Us
• CLUE – Children Looking Undercover for Energy

SERIES: Science Education and Resources for Informal Settings
Age/Grade Level: Ages 9 to 11 years and Teens
Utilizes teens as teachers
Loaner teaching kit available
Training Fee: $30.00 per participant
Curriculum Cost: $75.00
University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources
http://ucce.ucdavis.edu/files/filelibrary/5180/5785.pdf
http://clubs.ca4h.org/sanluisobispo/
http://ucce.ucdavis.edu/files/filelibrary/5180/5784.pdf

Discovery Science is a great way to develop scientific thinking skills in children while they have fun.  The 4-H SERIES curriculum introduces inquiry-based science by using teens as teachers, and provides a wide variety of activities to keep kids thinking.  Units include:

• Beyond Duck, Cover and Hold – Earthquakes
• Chemicals ‘R Us
• From Rivers to Ridges: Watershed Exploration
• It Came From Planted Earth
• Oak Woodland Wildlife Habitat
• Recycle/Reuse
• Sciencing with Snails
• What’s Bugging You?

Bubbles
Age/Grade Level: Ages 9 to 11 years
Loaner teaching kit available
Training Fee: $30.00 per participant
Curriculum Cost: $9.95, plus shipping and sales tax
Education Development Center / Explore It Series
http://www.kelvin.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=652278

Floating giant bubbles (3 feet in diameter), small bubble domes on a table top, and soap film in frames are the means for children to observe some of the more obvious properties of soap    bubbles (such as their round shapes) as well as subtle properties (such as surface tension).

Soda Science
Age/Grade Level: Ages 9 to 11 years
Loaner teaching kit available
Training Fee: $30.00 per participant
Curriculum Cost: $9.95, plus shipping and sales tax
Education Development Center / Explore It Series
http://www.kelvin.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=652285

Children can make up their own soda recipes in a systematic way while practicing in a concrete manner the mathematical operations of ratio and proportion.  Then, they analyze a real soda to compare how the relative proportions of ingredients in the commercial version compares with theirs.

Cake Chemistry
Age/Grade Level: Ages 9 to 11 years
Loaner teaching kit available
Training Fee: $30.00 per participant
Curriculum Cost: $9.95, plus shipping and sales tax
Education Development Center / Explore It Series
http://www.kelvin.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=652279

What are the ingredients in a recipe that cause a cake to rise? Is the same gas produced when using baking powder, baking soda, or yeast? These are questions children pursue in this exploration while, at the same time, they get to eat their experiments and gain some sense of the chemical properties of materials.

Sinking and Floating
Age/Grade Level: Ages 9 to 11 years
Loaner teaching kit available
Training Fee: $30.00 per participant
Curriculum Cost: $9.95, plus shipping and sales tax
Education Development Center / Explore It Series
http://www.kelvin.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=652283

Children explore the buoyancy of common objects and make boats from a variety of materials, gaining a sense of the relative contribution of the material and its shape in determining whether it will sink or float. They repeat their experiments with salt water and other solutions to see how the type of liquid makes a difference in how things float. 

Crime Lab Chemistry
Age/Grade Level: 4 to 8 grade
Loaner teaching kit available
Training Fee: $30.00 per participant
Curriculum Cost: $16.00, plus shipping and sales tax
University of California Lawrence Hall of Science / Great Explorations in Math and Science (GEMS)

Recently updated and expanded, in this forensic science primer student detectives use paper chromatography to investigate solubility, pigments, and separation of mixtures. New activities provide opportunities to explore and understand scientific models.

Fingerprinting
Age/Grade Level: 4 to 8 grade
Loaner teaching kit available
Training Fee: $30.00 per participant
Curriculum Cost: $13.50, plus shipping and sales taxUniversity of California Lawrence Hall of Science / Great Explorations in Math and Science

Students explore the characteristics of fingerprints in these “fingers-on” activities, devising their own classification categories and applying their skills to solve a “crime.” (The technique uses pencil and tape, not ink.)

Dry Ice Investigations
Age/Grade Level: 6 to 8 grade
Loaner teaching kit available
Training Fee: $30.00 per participant
Curriculum Cost: $21.00, plus shipping and sales tax
University of California Lawrence Hall of Science / Great Explorations in Math and Science

The intriguing behavior of dry ice ushers students into understandings of inquiry and essential concepts of matter, gases, and chemistry. Provides compelling experience in scientific investigation while introducing the particulate theory of matter, phase change, the nature of gases, and the history of science.

Oobleck: What Do Scientists Do?
Age/Grade Level: 4 to 8 grade
Loaner teaching kit available
Training Fee: $30.00 per participant
Curriculum Cost: $10.50, plus shipping and sales tax
University of California Lawrence Hall of Science / Great Explorations in Math and Science

In this immensely popular unit, the strangely behaving substance called Oobleck provides students authentic insight into real-world scientific inquiry. Students are totally engaged in observation, hands-on investigation, a scientific convention, and spacecraft design.

Tools of the Trade II: Inspiring Young Minds to be SET Ready for Life
Age/Grade Level: Staff Development
Training Fee: $30.00 per participant
Curriculum Cost: $20.00, plus shipping and sales tax
University of California (2009)

Tools of the Trade II is a staff development module that uses a train the trainer approach to deliver a comprehensive 21-hour training for afterschool program frontline staff and youth workers in incorporating science, engineering and technology (SET) into afterschool programming.

ENGINERING

Balls and Tracks
Age/Grade Level: Ages 9 to 11 years
Loaner teaching kit available
Training Fee: $30.00 per participant
Curriculum Cost: $9.95, plus shipping and sales tax
Education Development Center / Design It Series
http://www.kelvin.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=651666           

Using flexible pipe insulation, marbles, and a few other simple materials, students take on the challenges of recreating small-scale models of amusement park rides and sporting events, such as the ski jump.

Pinball Games
Age/Grade Level: Ages 9 to 11 years
Loaner teaching kit available
Training Fee: $30.00 per participant
Curriculum Cost: $9.95, plus shipping and sales tax
Education Development Center / Design It Series
http://www.kelvin.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=651660

Build pinball games complete with bumpers, traps, flippers and plungers. Students assign their own numbers to their traps and decide where they should be, and test different methods of launching the ball.

Trebuchets
Age/Grade Level: Ages 9 to 11 years
Loaner teaching kit available
Training Fee: $30.00 per participant
Curriculum Cost: $9.95, plus shipping and sales tax
Education Development Center / Design It Series
http://www.kelvin.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=651667

Start with a working design of an ancient throwing machine similar to catapults & slingshots.  The challenge is to improve on the design by testing and adjusting the different parts of this device.

Gliders
Age/Grade Level: Ages 9 to 11 years
Loaner teaching kit available
Training Fee: $30.00 per participant
Curriculum Cost: $9.95, plus shipping and sales tax
Education Development Center / Design It Series
http://www.kelvin.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=651661

Construct simple airplanes from paper. After testing their own designs for tails, bodies and of the variables.        

Rubber Band-Powered Cars
Age/Grade Level: Ages 9 to 11 years
Loaner teaching kit available
Training Fee: $30.00 per participant
Curriculum Cost: $9.95, plus shipping and sales tax
Education Development Center / Design It Series
http://www.kelvin.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=651663

Using cardboard, dowels, plastic plates, and rubber bands, students can build their own cars, and learn in a direct way the engineering concept of optimization by testing different sized rubber bands and different diameter plates as wheels.

String Telephones
Age/Grade Level: Ages 9 to 11 years
Loaner teaching kit available
Training Fee: $30.00 per participant
Curriculum Cost: $9.95, plus shipping and sales tax
Education Development Center / Design It Series
http://www.kelvin.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=651817

Using paper cups & string, discover principles that govern the simplest form of a string telephone. Refine this model with other materials & get messages to go around corners.

Straw Rockets
Age/Grade Level: Ages 9 to 11 years
Loaner teaching kit available
Training Fee: $30.00 per participant
Curriculum Cost: $9.95, plus shipping and sales tax
Education Development Center / Design It Series
http://www.kelvin.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=651816

Launch the outer straw like a toy rocket by blowing. By using a sandwich bag propulsion system, students test different kinds of fins while trying to refine their toy rockets so that they will hit targets consistently.

Spinning Toys
Age/Grade Level: Ages 9 to 11 years
Loaner teaching kit available
Training Fee: $30.00 per participant
Curriculum Cost: $9.95, plus shipping and sales tax
Education Development Center / Design It Series
http://www.kelvin.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=651815

Plates, dowels, rubber washers, and tuna fish cans become homemade tops and yo-yos.  Uncover the principles of balance and spin to make long spinning tops and regular or “sleeper” yo-yos.

Wiring a House
Age/Grade Level: Ages 9 to 11 years
Loaner teaching kit available
Training Fee: $30.00 per participant
Curriculum Cost: $9.95, plus shipping and sales tax
Education Development Center / Explore It Series
http://www.kelvin.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=652286

Children discover some of the principle of practical wiring and electrical circuitry by installing lights and switches in the rooms of a cardboard house. Children follow electrical “pathways” within their circuits to explain why some light bulbs shine brightly while others are dim.

The Power of Wind
Age/Grade Level: Ages 10 to 13 years
Training Fee: $30.00 per participant
Curriculum Cost: $9.60, plus shipping and sales tax
National 4-H Council (2008)
http://www.4-h.org/resource-library/curriculum/4-h-the-power-of-the-wind/

The Power of the Wind Curriculum is part of the National 4-H Curriculum Collection and is designed for middle school aged youth to learn about the wind and its uses. Youth work with members of a team to design, create, build, and test a wind powered devices and are given opportunities to explore wind as a potential energy source in their community.

TECHNOLOGY

Junk Drawer Robotics
Age/Grade Level: 4 to 8 grade
Training Fee: $30.00 per participant
Curriculum Cost: $10.50, plus shipping and sales tax
National 4-H Council (2010)

This hands-on curriculum features seven teaching sessions to build learner excitement and enthusiasm for robotics as participants learn science, do engineering, and make technology.

Computer Mysteries
Age/Grade Level: Ages 7 to 19 years
Training Fee: $30.00 per participant
Curriculum Cost: Varies, see below
4-H Cooperative Curriculum System (2000)
http://www.4-h.org/resource-library/curriculum/4-h-computer/

This curriculum combines an interactive CD-ROM with web-based activities to teach young people how to interact with computers, use a variety of software, add hardware, and take advantage of information on the Internet.  Units available:

• Level 1: Booting Up: Interacting with Computers (CD-ROM) ($7.00)
• Level 2: Adding On: Hardware and Software Magic. ($3.25)
• Level 3: Reaching Beyond: The Advanced User. ($3.25)
• Helpers Guide. ($3.25) 

TechXcite
Age/Grade Level: Ages 9 to 13 years
Training Fee: $30.00 per participant
Curriculum Cost: Free at website
Duke University Pratt school of Engineering
http://techxcite.pratt.duke.edu/index.php

TechXcite is an after-school engineering curriculum that is being developed at Duke University’s Pratt School of Engineering. This curriculum is being developed as part of a National Science Foundation sponsored program and will be utilized in 4-H supported after-school programs across the country. The TechXcite curriculum offers a rich and vibrant exploration of engineering, mathematics, science and technology and is centered on seven themes. Units available:

• Bionic Arm
• Cooking with the Sun
• The Quest for Speed
• Your TV Remote

 NATURAL RESOURCE EDUCATION

 Project Learning Tree
Age/Grade Level: Grades K to 12
Training Fee: $30.00 per participant
Curriculum Cost: Free with training
Project Wild (1993)
www.plt.org

Project Learning Tree is an award-winning, interdisciplinary environmental education curriculum for educators. Project Learning Tree helps students gain awareness and knowledge of the natural and built environment, their place within it, as well as their responsibility for it.  Available in English and Spanish, Project Learning Tree is also correlated to the California Department of Education subject-based standards.

Project WILD Aquatic
Age/Grade Level: Grades K to 12
Training Fee: $30.00 per participant
Curriculum Cost: Free with training
Project WILD (2000)
www.projectwild.org

Project WILD Aquatic provides learners with opportunities to engage in hands-on learning experiences that demonstrate the importance of aquatic wildlife and its direct relationship to assessing environmental health. Available in English and Spanish, Project WILD Aquatic is also correlated to the California Department of Education subject-based standards.

Project WET
Age/Grade Level: Grades K to 12
Training Fee: $30.00 per participant
Curriculum Cost: Free with training
Project WET (1995)
http://www.projectwet.org/

The goal of Project WET is to facilitate and promote awareness, appreciation, knowledge, and stewardship of water resources.  Through interactive learning opportunities, youth engage in hands-on activities to foster their understanding and appreciation of water resources.  Project WET is also correlated to the California Department of Education subject-based standards.

Going Places, Making Choices: Transportation and the Environment
Age/Grade Level: Grades 9 to 12
Training Fee: $30.00 per participant
Curriculum Cost: $20.00, plus shipping and sales tax
National 4-H Council (1995)

This interactive curriculum looks at transportations impact on the environment.  Students encounter real-life challenges and decisions that will be meaningful now and in the future.  Each of the 5 units is packed with factoids, scenarios, activities and subject information.  Units include:

• Cruise Through History
• Energy and Resources
• Sweating Over Climate Changes
• Land Use
• Personal Choice

Closing the Loop: Exploring Integrated Waste Management and Resource Conservation
Age/Grade Level: Grades K to 6
Training Fee: $30.00 per participant
Curriculum Cost: Free with training
California Integrated Waste Management Board (2000)
http://www.ciwmb.ca.gov/schools/Curriculum/CTL/default.htm

Closing the Loop is a curriculum that provides students with a broad exposure to fundamental concepts of integrated waste management in a hands-on/minds-on fashion.  Available in English and Spanish, Closing the Loop is also correlated to the California Department of Education subject-based standards.

Environmental Management Power: Waste Management Curriculum
Age/Grade Level: Grades 4 to 9
Training Fee: $30.00 per participant
Curriculum Cost: $18.50, plus shipping and sales tax
National 4-H Council (1995)
http://www.agls.uidaho.edu/iwrri/empower/

Environmental Management Power uses a process-oriented approach to empower youth to take action on local waste management issues. Youth gather information on waste management concerns and develop creative solutions through role-play opportunities, games and interviewing. Units include:  

• Defining Issues and Actions: Structured activities to develop an understanding of waste management concerns; what makes an issue and how to make a difference.
• Going Local with Issues and Actions: Provides activities to complement a waste management and/or environmental restoration project. This curriculum invites youth to learn about waste management issues and to develop innovative solutions.

Energizing your future with energy, economics and the environment
Age/Grade Level: Grades K to 12
Training Fee: $30.00 per participant
Curriculum Cost: $6.25, plus shipping and sales tax
National 4-H Council (1995)
https://store.extension.iastate.edu/ItemDetail.aspx?ProductID=272

This curriculum helps youth understand the interactions between energy choices, economics, and environmental impacts.

CASEC: California Aquatic Science Education Consortium
Age/Grade Level: Ages 10 to 15 years
Training Fee: $30.00 per participant
Curriculum Cost: $8.50 each
University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources (2001)
http://www.ca4h.org/Projects/SET/EE/CASEC/

Each leader’s guide presents a series of activities designed to engage children in scientific thinking processes and actions as they explore aquatic environments and environmental issues.  Available in English and Spanish. Units available:

• Creek Watchers: Exploring the World of Creeks and Streams - Explores the impact that land use near a creek has on the health of the creek’s flora and fauna.
• Fresh Water Guardians: Defending our Precious Supply - Investigates the effects of water pollutants and purification systems.
• Plastic Eliminators: Protecting California’s Shoreline - Explores the effects of plastic on animal feeding ranges and habitats, identifying and recycling plastics.
• Water Inspectors: Examining H2O - Activities include building water testing kits, measuring water density, and testing water hardness.
• Wetland Protectors: Guarding our Wild and Watery Lands - Uses scavenger hunts and outdoor exploration to learn the flora and fauna of wetlands.

Project Butterfly Wings
Age/Grade Level: Grades 9-13 years
Training Fee: $30.00 per participant
Curriculum Cost: $15.50, plus shipping and sales tax
National 4-H Council (2009)
http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/wings/index.asp

WINGS, Winning Investigative Network for Great Science, is a partnership between 4-H youth and professional scientists. Participating youth are “citizen scientists” who collect data on butterflies to help professional scientists determine the presence or absence of specific butterfly species and the abundance of butterfly species by state and county throughout the country.

GARDEN BASED LEARNING

TWIGS—A Gardening and Nutrition Experience
Age/Grade Level: Grades K to 6
Training Fee: $30.00 per participant
Curriculum Cost: $25.00
University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources (1997)
http://cesanmateo.ucdavis.edu/TWIGs/

The garden is a powerful experiential educational tool that can connect children with science, nutrition, ecological responsibility and community beautification.  Participants become acquainted with 30 gardening and nutrition lessons suitable for in the classroom as well as in the garden.

Junior Master Gardener: Health and Nutrition from the Garden
Age Grade Level: Grades 3 to 12
Training Fee: $30.00 per participant
Curriculum Cost: $28.50, plus shipping and sales tax
Texas A&M University (2001)
http://jmgkids.us/

Growing fruits and vegetables in a home or community garden can provide an environment where health, nutrition, food safety and decision-making skills can be taught.  The Junior Master Gardener: Health and Nutrition from the Garden curriculum can be used to teach and reinforce these lessons and skills.  The Junior Master Gardener: Health and Nutrition from the Garden curriculum is correlated to the California Department of Education subject-based standards.

Junior Master Gardener
Age/Grade Level: Grades 3 to 8
Training Fee: $30.00 per participant
Curriculum Cost: Varies, see below, plus shipping and sales tax
Texas A&M University
http://www.jmgkids.us/index.cfm?did=2036§ionID=2017

The Junior Master Gardener program is for youth of all ages which uses fun activities to teach horticulture and environmental science concepts.  Children can get involved in exploring their world through meaningful activities that encourage leadership development, personal pride and responsibility, and community involvement.  Older youth are trained to become mentors for younger children participating in the program.  Youth involved in the program develop critical thinking skills, and the ability to identify community concerns and take action to address them through individual group projects. The Junior Master Gardener curriculum is correlated to the California Department of Education subject-based standards. Units available:

• Level I: Grades 3 – 5 (1999),  Student book in English ($20.00)
• Level I: Grades 3 – 5 (1999),  Student book in Spanish ($20.00)
• Level I: Grades 3 – 5 (1999),  Leader Guide ($38.00)
• Level II: Grades 6 – 8 (2002), Student/Leader Guide ($29.50)

Cycling Back to Nature
Age/Grade Level: Grades 4 to 8
Training Fee: $30.00 per participant
Curriculum Cost: $5.00 per unit, plus shipping and sales tax
National 4-H Council (1995)

This two-unit curriculum provides learners with opportunities to explore relationships between pesticides and food production as well as soil and soil enhancement through composting.  Units available:

• Food Production and Pesticides
• Soils Alive: From Tiny Rocks to Compost

Primary Planters
Age/Grade Level: Ages 5 to 8
Training Fee: $30.00 per participant
Curriculum Cost: $10.00
University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources (1998)

This curriculum provides children with opportunities to utilize the garden as a tool to develop education, recreation, social and interpersonal skills.  Twenty-four activities are organized around parts of plants, essential elements for plant growth and plant propagation factors.

Children’s Gardens: A Field Guide for Teachers, Parents and Volunteers
Age/Grade Level: Adult Resource Guide
Training Fee: $30.00 per participant
Curriculum Cost: $10.00
University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources (1991)

This illustrated guide was designed to help children experience the excitement of planting a seed, watching it grow, and harvesting its fruit.  Covers all aspects of gardening: site preparation, garden tools and their use, selecting seeds, identifying and controlling pests safely, and harvesting garden produce. 

How to Begin a School Garden
Age/Grade Level: Adult Resource Guide
Training Fee: $30.00 per participant
Curriculum Cost: $50.00 (Script, audio tape and 53 slides)
University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources (1998)

Step-by-step ideas and suggestions on how to develop, plan and implement a school garden program.  Explore the relationship between nature and the community in a non-form setting.  

A School Garden Curriculum
Age/Grade Level: Adult Resource Guide
Training Fee: $30.00 per participant
Curriculum Cost: $67.00 (Script, audiotape and 74 slides)
University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources (1998)

Use the vegetable garden as a nature laboratory to show children the relationship between the community and the environment in this 12-week program. 

Eating Healthy from Farm to Fork…Promoting School Wellness
Age/Grade Level: K-2
Training Fee: $30.00 per participant
Curriculum Cost: $25.00 per module (3 modules by grade level)
University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources (2008)
University of California, Placer County Cooperative Extension, 11477 E Avenue, Auburn, CA 95603, Phone (530) 889-7350, FAX (530) 889-7397

Eating Healthy from Farm to Fork…Promoting School Wellness is a nutrition education curriculum that makes the connection between local food systems, garden-based learning, school food service and the establishment of healthy habits. The comprehensive materials integrate nutrition education into grade-appropriate lessons that are specifically designed around the California Department of Education’s Nutrition Competencies for California Children and directly correlated to the core subjects of the California Content Standards.

Additional Resources can be found at:

• http://www.ca4h.org/Projects/SET/
• http://oklahoma4h.okstate.edu/scitech/
• http://nys4h.cce.cornell.edu/about%20us/Pages/SETToolkit.aspx

 
Youth Science Education Publications:

Schmitt-McQuitty, L. S. (2003). “Ask Lynn”: Science Appreciation. Between the Furrows.     November. Volume 27. Issue 11. Santa Cruz County Farm Bureau.

Schmitt-McQuitty, L. S. (2003). Teens Implementing Hands-on Science.  UC Delivers.  http://ucanr.org/delivers/impactview.cfm?impactnum=286

Schmitt-McQuitty, L. S. (2004). “Ask Lynn”: Worm Hotels. Between the Furrows. August.    Volume 28. Issue 8. Santa Cruz County Farm Bureau.

Schmitt-McQuitty, L. S. (2006). Santa Cruz County Part of National Partnership for Afterschool Science Program.  UC Delivers. http://ucanr.org/delivers/impactview.cfm?impactnum=565

Schmitt-McQuitty, L. S. (2007). “Ask Lynn”: National Partnership for After School Science.    Between the Furrows. June. Volume 31. Issue 6. Santa Cruz County Farm Bureau.

Schmitt-McQuitty, L. S. (2008). Assessing Community Needs to Expand Youth Garden.  UC Delivers.  http://ucanr.org/delivers/impactview.cfm?impactnum=708

Schmitt-McQuitty, L. S. (2008). After School Care Providers Increase Capacity to Deliver Science.  UC Delivers.
http://ucanr.org/delivers/?impact=723&delivers=1

Schmitt-McQuitty, L. S. (2008). “Ask Lynn”: 4-H Science, Engineering and Technology Initiative. Between the Furrows. March. Volume 32. Issue 3. Santa Cruz County Farm Bureau

Schmitt-McQuitty, L.S., (2008). National Partnership for After School Science Collaborator vignette. http://n-pass.edc.org/archives/cat_cbo_vignettes.html

M. Smith, L. Schmitt-McQuitty, R. Mahacek, S. Junge. (2009). Ready, 4-H SET, Go!  UC Delivers. http://ucanr.org/delivers/impactview.cfmimpactnum=726

Schmitt-McQuitty, L. S. (2009). “Ask Lynn”: Science Appreciation. Between the Furrows.  November. Volume 33. Issue 3. Santa Cruz County Farm Bureau.

Smith, M.H., Schmitt-McQuitty, L.S., Mahacek, R.L., Junge, S.K. (2009). Ready, 4-H SET, Go!  UC Delivers. http://ucanr.org/delivers/impactview.cfmimpactnum=726

Junge, S.K., Mahacek, R.L., Schmitt-McQuitty, L.S., Smith, M.H., Worker, S.M. (2009). 4-H SET trains volunteers to engage youth in science activities.  UC Delivers.  http://ucanr.org/delivers/impactview.cfm?impactnum=735

Schmitt-McQuitty, L. S. (2010). “Ask Lynn”: National Youth Science Day. Between the Furrows. September. Volume 34. Issue 9. Santa Cruz County Farm Bureau.

Schmitt-McQuitty, L. S.(2001). Working with Environmental Education Partners and Collaborators. CESYES Website. http://www.uwex.edu/erc/cesyes/eelinks.html