4-H School Enrichment Proposals
Harlan and Furnas Counties
2025-2026
SECOND GRADE
Foundational Program:
AgCiting Science
5 Lessons | 45-60 minutes | Agriculture, Science, Language Arts
Youth will discover the science behind agriculture, its products, and its relationship to students. This program includes topics of beef production, dairy production, popcorn, natural resources, lifecycle, and learning from the farm-to-table process. Identified by Nebraska 4-H as a core program for all 2nd and 3rd-grade students.
Other Offerings:
Embryology
3 | 45 Min Session | Agriculture Literacy
This lesson teaches youth how life develops by observing the hatching of baby chicks over three weeks. During the lesson, students learn about the makeup of eggs, the difference between stored eggs and fertilized eggs, and the process of hatching chicks. Students assume responsibility for the eggs as if they were the mother hen and rotate the eggs in the incubator daily.
Emotional Ruler
2 | 30-Min Sessions | Healthy Living, Language Arts
This program investigates feelings and aims to increase young students’ emotional intelligence by using interactive activities to teach children how to recognize, understand, and label when experiencing difficult emotions. It then provides an opportunity to practice strategies for expressing and regulating feelings safely and appropriately.
Think Your Drink
1 | 30 Min Session | Healthy Living
Many people drink soda and other sugary drinks throughout the day. These drinks don’t add any nutritional value to our diets. Over consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages is a national health concern, and we need to start the conversation about what drinks will help us live healthy lives. This hands-on activity will let kids visually see how much sugar is in their drinks and allow them to try some more nutritious options.
Purple Ribbon Kids
4 Lessons | 30 minutes | Personal Development, Language Arts
Four lessons were designed around leadership opportunities for mastery, generosity, inclusion, and belonging. Students will participate in hands-on personal development opportunities through the power of storytelling.
Kitchen Science
1 | 45 Min Session | Science
This lesson will show you the different kinds of experiments that can happen with ingredients or supplies you have in your kitchen.
Lifecycle of a Ladybug
4 | 40 Min Sessions | Science
The lifecycle of a ladybug allows students to witness the lifecycle of ladybugs as they watch them mature from larvae to adult ladybugs. Daytime temperatures must be above 55 degrees when you release your ladybugs.
Lifecycle of a Butterfly
4 | 40 Min Session | Science
The lifecycle of a butterfly allows students to observe butterflies transform from caterpillars to chrysalides to butterflies with their own butterfly observation habitat. This project requires four weeks to complete, and daytime temperatures are above 55 and less than 85 degrees.
Making Cents of It
1 lesson | 30 minutes | Personal Development, Math
Youth experience hands-on on difference between different money figures to explore the difference between real and counterfeit money. Within the Making Cents of Curriculum, there is multiple resources on financial literacy. If you are looking for specific hands-on learning examples on financial literacy, we would love to help build a lesson just for your classroom!