4-H School Enrichment Proposals
Harlan and Furnas Counties
2025-2026
FIFTH GRADE
Foundational Program:
Smart Cents
5 | 45-60 Min Sessions | Math, Personal Development
Smart Cents helps youth develop financial skills and habits to set them up for long-term success. Students become real-world consumers as they gain insight into how they perceive money while making personal financial plans and decisions.
Other Offerings:
Animals Inside & Out
3-6 | 45 Min Sessions | Agriculture Literacy
Students will gain knowledge and understanding of livestock, equine, and companion animals through topics of management, body systems, and careers, which will help them understand how animals work inside and out. They will also be able to experience hands-on learning opportunities and think like veterinarians as they learn about various topics, making connections between their knowledge of the animal industry and their lives.
Embryology
2-3 | 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.
AgCiting Science
6-10 | 30 Min Sessions | Agriculture Literacy
Youth will discover the science behind agriculture and its products. With a variety of lesson choices, you can develop lessons to fit your classroom needs. Lessons include topics of Nebraska Agriculture Commodities, which include beef production, dairy production, popcorn, natural resources, and how our food gets from farm to table.
Entrepreneurship + Ag
Varied
Youth will begin by establishing the basics of entrepreneurship by exploring mindsets and skills, creating a prototype, receiving feedback, and learning the art of creating and delivering a pitch. Youth will experience hands-on learning with a group by creating a business model, understanding the power of ‘yet’ and providing positive feedback to their peers.
TEC Box
4 | 45 Min Session | Entre
Tinker. Explore. Create. Box was developed to introduce youth to entrepreneurship, encourage active listening that leads to empathy and creative problem-solving, and focus on non-technical aspects of entrepreneurship.
Engaged U: Mindful Movement
4 | 45 Min Session | Healthy Living
Students will learn strategies that will support them to be more self-aware and enhance their social-emotional learning through movement, mindfulness practices, and team-building activities.
Leadership Summit
4-6 | 45 Min Sessions | Personal Development
Students will see the world differently and learn to be more effective leaders and team members. Leadership Discovery and Personality Trait Assessment sessions and engaging leadership development activities will help students learn interpersonal skills.
Bridges and Structures
3 | 45 Min Session | Science
Introduce your students to the exciting engineering career as they develop technical design abilities. Challenge your students to design a structure to meet a specific need. Students work cooperatively to build a structure and evaluate their design.
CSI: DNA
1 | 90 Min Session | Science
Students will construct DNA and discover how DNA sequencing aids investigators in solving crimes. They will also extract their DNA and see it with their own eyes.
Kitchen Science
1 | 90 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.
Microbiology
2 | 45 Min Sessions | Science
Gain a crash course in microbiology and learn about different types of salmonella and E. Coli in the environment and food. Students will also learn about good bacteria and yeasts that make up our food.
Water Jamboree
Field Day | Science
A day at Harlan County Lake, youth will explore hands-on learning in agriculture, wildlife, conservation, STEM, and much more! This field trip is offered through a partnership of many entities. To learn more, visit https://www.tribasinnrd.org/water-jamboree.
Healthy Habits
Field Day | Healthy Living
Healthy Habits educates 5th & 6th-grade students about making healthy and safe decisions in their daily lives. Through this program, youth gain knowledge and practice skills in preparing healthy meals, develop healthy and safe decision-making skills & increase their ability to make healthy life choices.