No Bones About It package (Grades 5-8)
is six lessons on DVD and CD designed to inspire early teens to become lifelong consumers of calcium-rich foods. Personnel at eight universities created the lessons, which meet national academic standards for grades 5-8. Specifically, the lessons meet Science Content Standards A, B, C, F, and G and Health Standards 1 through 7. This package contains a 60-page facilitator's guide, master copies of 24 handouts, one DVD and six CDs that contain games that reinforce the information presented in the interactive portion. Extra copies of the CD (item number CD-CFS-741) in packages of 25 are available for $40, plus shipping. Another option for nonprofit, educational institutions is to order the site license for the games, which costs $50 and is item number CFS-741-ES.

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Geology 1(Grades 3-5) helps youth learn about rocks, fossils, and minerals. In this project, students keep records of their rock-collecting, develop an understanding of Earth science, and present results of their work to others. This manual was created with help from the Indiana Geological Survey, Indiana University. Each manual comes with a removable, full-color bookmark that shows 15 common rocks often found by first-time collectors. See the specific standards (PDF file) met by this curriculum.

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Geology 2 (Grades 6-8) helps youth learn more about rocks, fossils, and minerals. This manual also includes information about glaciers and Indiana geology. Students will keep records of their rock-collecting, develop an understanding of Earth science, and present results of their work to others. This manual was created with help from the Indiana Geological Survey, Indiana University.  See the specific Indiana Academic Science Standards this curriculum meets (PDF file) met by this curriculum.

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Geology 3(Grades 9-12)
builds on experiences youth had in Geology 1 and 2. Youth will continue to go on field trips and to collect and study specimens of rocks, fossils, and minerals. They will begin to specialize in one area as they continue collecting. They also teach others through action demonstrations. See the specific standards (PDF file) met by this curriculum.

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Geology Helper’s Guidewas created for parents and adult leaders, who are helping children with the 4-H Geology curriculum. The manual includes answers to puzzles and questions posed in the three student Geology manuals. 

Fifty Trees of Indiana CD (Grades 4-12) includes an interactive tool to identify trees, plus lots of color photos of tree forms, leaves, flowers, fruit, bark, twigs, and buds. The CD also has background information about tree families and communities, pop-up glossary definitions, and lesson plans. See the specific standards addressed by this curriculum. A 64-page black and white booklet with the same title, but without the lesson plans, costs $3.
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Plant Propagation CD contains hundreds of photos, 52 videos of propagation techniques, and almost 50 detailed graphics and animations. In addition, there are 32 quizzes. Check out our Web preview of the course. See the specific standards addressed by this curriculum.

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Indiana 4-H Child Development Curriculum consists of four age-appropriate activity guides for youth, plus a Web-only leader's guide (Child Development Leader's Guide: Building Today's Youth for a Bright Future 4-H-977-W ). The curriculum helps young people learn about child development, health and safety, food and nutrition, discipline, and families and careers. It also teaches life skills: planning and organizing, processing information, solving problems, achieving goals, learning to learn, and critical thinking.

Level A: Building a Bright Beginning (Grades 3-4) (Focus: children birth to age 3)
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Level B: Building Blocks of Learning (Grades 5-6) (Focus: children ages 3-6)
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Level C: Building a Strong Foundation (Grades 7, 8, 9) (Focus: children ages 6-12)
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Level D: Building Relationships Toward a Brighter Tomorrow (Grades 10, 11, 12) (Focus: youth, families, and communities working together)
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Exploring the Food Pyramid with Professor Popcorn CD (Grades 1-6)
is an extensive rewrite of a popular curriculum that was last revised in 2002. This 2006 version takes into account the introduction of MyPyramid and the 2005 revisions in the Dietary Guidelines for Americans. It also focuses on the four Fight BAC Rules and being physically active. The CD provides five lessons for each grade. Each lesson includes a lesson plan, an abundance of visuals, handouts, recipes, and evaluation forms. Click here for a sample lesson. See the specific standards addressed by this curriculum.
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Fishing 1: Take the Bait (Grades 3-5) Youth have fun playing a fish, tying knots, casting to a target, rigging various lines, selecting tackle, identifying where the fish are, using different baits and lures, identifying fish, cooking fish and identifying internal and external fish parts. See specific standards (PDF format) met by this curriculum.

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Fishing 2: Reel in the Fun
(Grades 6-8) Youth locate fishing information on the Web, cast using a spinning rod and fly rod and bait casting reel, practice responsible citizenship, research fishing regulations, decorate a lure, sew a fly wallet, tie an artificial fly, and test a water sample. See specific standards (PDF format) met by this curriculum.

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Fishing 3: Cast into the Future (Grades 9-12) You develop leadership skills as well as their fishing skills as you take a friend fishing, demonstrate how to disassemble and reassemble a fishing reel, design and conduct a sportfishing skillathon, make artificial flies, designs and crafts a lure, customize tackle, builds and uses a kick net, responds to ethical situations and interviews a professional fisherman. See specific standards (PDF format) met by this curriculum.

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4-H Wildlife Level A (Grades 3-4)
was written for youth who enjoy wildlife and for anyone who wants to learn more about Indiana wildlife. This first manual (Level A) features 12 common species as it introduces some important, general wildlife concepts. See specific standards (PDF format) met by this curriculum.

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4-H Wildlife Level B (Grades 5-6) introduces basic wildlife concepts including habitats, migration, the food web, species loss, population, and adaptations. See specific standards (PDF format) met by this curriculum.

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4-H Wildlife Level C (Grades 7-9)
includes wildlife concepts with a focus on interactions between species. Topics include habitat (requirements, succession, layering, corridors), population dynamics, carrying capacity, reproduction rates, and critical life stages. Career exploration is also encouraged in this manual. See specific standards (PDF format) met by this curriculum.

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4-H Wildlife Level D  (Grades 10-12) helps youth learn about wildlife through directed self-study based on their interests. This manual also includes information about wildlife management and careers. See specific standards (PDF format) met by this curriculum.

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More materials for students
Check out a 2.2 megabyte PDF file that lists dozens of Purdue Extension materials designed for kids from kindergarten through high school. Materials range from coloring books to interactive CDs and DVDs, and most are priced at less than $10.


Indiana Agricultural Literacy Curriculum CD (Grade 4) includes 40 lesson plans organized into eight units that present major segments of the agricultural industry. The curriculum includes lesson plans, including full-color handouts and exercises to do in class. See the specific standards addressed by this curriculm.

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Exploring the Great Lakes, Teacher's Edition is a CD-ROM tutorial that teaches middle school and high school students about the Great Lakes. One segment of the CD-ROM describes hot topics and issues, including loss of habitat, beach closures, exotic species, fish communities, eutrophication, and toxins in the environment. The teacher's version of the CD-ROM includes printable worksheets and answer sheets. There is also a student version. See the specific standards addressed by this curriculum.

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Snakes of the Midwest CD
(Grades 3-6)
will help your students identify the snakes found in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio, and Wisconsin. It contains information on identification, distribution and status, and ecology and behavior. The material contains lesson plans, crossword puzzles, and other games. See the specific standards addressed by this curriculum.

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Also see the books Salamanders of Indiana and Turtles of Indiana.

Indiana Farmland: Fight or Flight? Preserving Indiana's Agricultural Heritage DVD (High School Students)
Indiana 's heritage is deeply rooted in agriculture, and the state ranks second to Illinois in the percentage of land considered prime farmland. However, urban sprawl is fragmenting, farmland at an alarming rate. The goals of this DVD are to raise awareness of the issue, to explore the value of preserving farmland, and to present farmland protection program options. Activities include a worksheet, students complete while watching the video. See the specific standards addressed by this curriculum.

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4-H Aquatic Science (Grades 3-12)
is a hands-on project that teaches 4-Hers how to raise and care for fish. The project includes information for raising goldfish and tropical fish. This project can be used for one child or as a classroom enrichment project. Record sheets are included to initiate good data collection practices. See specific standards addressed for Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9, Grade 10, Grade 11, and Grade 12. All are in PDF format.

4-H-447-W, no charge, Web-only  PDF download

Entomology 1: Creepy Crawlies (Grades 3-5)
If the study of insects is your calling, this project is for you. Each part of this manual is full of exciting facts, experiments, and art work that make learning interesting and valuable. You can learn how to make an insect collection, where to look for insects and how to identify and classify insects as you practice learning to learn, critical thinking, and decision making. See specific standards (PDF format) addressed by this curriculum.

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Entomology 2: What's
Bugging You? (Grades 6-8) With activities like Bugs on Canvas, Designer Bugs, How Sweet It Is, Bobby Buggy Bumpers and Peek-A-Bug, every experience is a new adventure. You’ll develop communication skills, identify insects to order, design insects, complete an insect collection table, plan an insect collection trip, rear meal worms, explore insect legs and collect insects with an extractor. See specific standards (PDF format) addressed by this curriculum.

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Entomology 3: Dragons, Houses, and Other Flies (Grades 9-12) Youth keep an insect journal, determine the effect of food on mealworm larvae production, test ant food preferences, conduct honey bee learning experiments, organize an insect club, use an insect key, plan a butterfly garden, record insect observations, identify insect mouth types, rear mosquitoes and make a spider web display. See specific standards (PDF format) addressed by this curriculum.

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Forestry 1: Follow the
Path (Grades 3-5) Youth explore different types of trees and tree parts, characteristics of different forests, what forests need to grow and thrive and the different products people get from trees and forests. See specific standards (PDF format) addressed by this curriculum.

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Forestry 2: Reach for the Canopy (Grades 9-12) Youth take a closer look at the inner-workings of trees, explore forest change, learn about forest health concerns and discover the health benefits trees have on people. See specific standards (PDF format) addressed by this curriculum.

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Forestry 3: Explore the
Deep Woods (Grades 9-12) Youth examine and distinguish different types of trees, look at forests on a global scale, learn to care for trees and think about how to conserve forests. See specific standards (PDF format) addressed by this curriculum.

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Weather I: Weather Watchers (Grades 3-4) helps you learn (l) to observe the weather and keep records on the changes in weather; (2) to use simple home-made and inexpensive weather instruments for observing the weather; and (3) about the weather, its effects, and what causes it to change. (Includes map) See specific standards (PDF format) met by this curriculum.

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Weather II: Storm Spotters
(Grades 5-6) is designed to encourage you to take more responsibility for making decisions and establishing your own goals. In this project you will construct or purchase your own equipment, and you will record daily weather information for one month. See specific standards (PDF format) met by this curriculum.

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Weather III: Clouds: Signposts of the Sky (Grades 7-9) explains how clouds form, the various types of clouds, and why it rains. See specific standards (PDF format) met by this curriculum.

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Weather IV: Fronts
& Symbols (Grades 10-12)
is written to acquaint you with the coded language of the meteorologist. See specific standards (PDF format) met by this curriculum.