Energy (Group Projects)

In the 4-H Energy Group Projects, you will learn:

• about wise and wasteful energy consumption;
• about a variety of energy sources, forms, and uses; and
• skills such as decision-making, getting along with others, self-responsibility, planning and organizing, and improving your knowledge of general science and technology.

Energy Encounters (For Youth Ages 8-10)

This curriculum was designed to help you develop a personal environmental ethic and enable you to identify an individual’s impact on energy consumption and availability. Lesson topics include: energy sources, conservation, the environment, and solar and electric energy. Produced by Florida 4-H.

Leader and Member Manuals
Energy Encounters - Leader         EGL21 
Energy Encounters – Member      EGM11

Energizing Your Future: Economics and Environment (For Youth Ages 5-18)

This guide will help you and your leaders understand the interactions between energy choices, economics, and
environmental impacts.  Available through National 4-H.

Leader Manual
Energizing Your Future: Economics & Environment      ES1009

Energy Links (For Youth Ages 8-10)

Energy Links uses stories, follow-up questions, and hands-on experiments to demonstrate the presence of and uses of energy. Starting from the days of mastodons and tribal communities up to the present era of technology, this innovative curriculum encourages youth to learn about and compare energy uses of the past to modern day uses. Some fun activities that youth will enjoy are learning how to build a turbine, generate electricity and make a burglar alarm. The stories about different cultures all have a current theme - energy. Using science, math, history, geography and language arts, Energy Links presents in-depth, comprehensive learning opportunities for youth. Produced by North Carolina State 4-H.

Leader Manual
Energy Links (North Carolina State)      NCSU1 

COMING SOON!
S.A.V.E. - Students Achieving Viable Energy
(For Youth Ages 11-18)

This curriculum is designed to teach junior and senior high school youth understand the basics of energy while exploring the interactions between and impacts of energy sources, forms, users, and the environment.  Coming soon from Florida 4-H.

Leader and Member Manuals
S.A.V.E. – Students Achieving Viable Energy

Suggested Supplemental Materials:

General Publications

Cycling Back to Nature:  Food Production and Pesticides
This activity guide is for 4-H members of all ages. This curriculum provides children the chance to use critical thinking skills and the new knowledge gained to debate issues of agriculture production and pesticide use. Available through National 4-H Council.

Protective Coloration as an Adaptation for Survival
This Florida 4-H Environmental Education Activity, grades 2-10, teaches 4-H'ers the basic concepts of: individuals and populations, mutations, camouflage, natural selection, morphological adaptations, evolution, and prey and predator relationships. Special activities and concepts are included in this project for grades 8-10.

Owl Prowl Night Hike
This Florida Environmental Education Activity, grades 1-12, teaches 4-H'ers the basic concepts of; predator, prey, adaptations, and territorialism. 

 

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