Looking for exciting activities to enhance your current curriculum? 4-H School Enrichment & Out-of-School programs, as delivered through the Nebraska Extension, offer experiential learning programs aligned with the Nebraska State Board of Education Content Area Standards in the areas of English language arts, mathematics, and science. Programs are also offered in social studies and career education.
All programs are designed to enrich your classroom curriculum and are available to teachers in Washington County. See below for a list of current offerings with recommended grade levels and fees. All materials needed for the program are included in the fee.
NOTE: Teachers or staff members must remain in the classroom with students during all programming.
To register for the classes:
- Please review the school enrichment programs and descriptions below.
- To register for a class, click on the program name and fill out the required information.
- After receiving submissions, 4-H Staff will be in contact to schedule classes.
EMBRYOLOGY | $5.00 | 2, 45-Minute Lessons This lesson teaches youth how life develops by observing the process of hatching baby chicks over three weeks. During this lesson, students learn about the makeup of eggs, the difference between store-bought 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 them in the incubator daily. FIRST TIME PHYSICS | $5.00 | 2, 45-Minute Lessons Students can explore activities that investigate sound and light energy. The class will learn how sound can travel and how light rays slow down and can be bent. HANDWASHING | FREE | 1, 45 Minute Lesson Extension staff will use blue light and a special lotion to show students all the germs on their hands. Students will then learn how to wash their hands and check to ensure they clean all the germs. MOBILE SCIENCE LAB | TBD | Field Day The Mobile Science Lab brings science to youth through interactive activities showing them that science is all around them. 4-H STEM CHALLENGE | TBD | Varied Each year 4-H STEM Challenge helps students to learn fundamental STEM skills while they wrestle with the same questions as today’s top scientists and engineers. Educators will provide a kit that walks through activities related to physics, light, engineering, coding, and more. STEM DAYS | TBD | Field Day Students learn about the engineering process through various hands-on activities. FOOD FUN SCHOOL ENRICHMENT KIT | FREE | 4-6 Lessons Students will learn about why food is important for good health, the five food groups, and the five senses. Classrooms are allowed to keep the kit for 4-6 weeks. All materials and lessons are provided for your classrooms. This program is a self-taught curriculum, with the final lesson taught by Jordan. An introductory video may be viewed here. CATCH KIDS CLUB | FREE | Kindergarten
CKC nutrition curriculum is available for grades K-5 and grades 5-8, designed for after-school programs. Lessons focus on MyPlate food groups, physical activity, healthy snacks and beverages, and breakfast. It includes family newsletters, visual aids, handouts, and games.
MARATHON KIDS | FREE
Marathon Kids is a national running program designed to increase youth's physical activity levels and confidence through running or active minutes. Great for in-school (PE, classroom-based) or out-of-school (after/before school programs).
ANIMALS INSIDE & OUT | $10.00 | 3-6, 45-Minute Lessons Students will gain knowledge and understanding of livestock, equine, and companion animals through topics of management, body systems, and careers for understanding how animals work inside and out. Students will be able to experience hands-on learning opportunities to think like a veterinarian as they learn about the various topics to make connections of their knowledge of the animal industry to their lives. FARM IN A GLOVE | $5.00 | 2, 45-Minute LessonFirst Grade
FIRST TIME PHYSICS | $5.00 | 2, 45-Minute Lesson
Students can explore activities that investigate sound and light energy. The class will learn how sound can travel and how light rays slow down and can be bent.
HANDWASHING | FREE | 1, 45-Minute Lesson
Extension staff will use blue light and a special lotion to show students all the germs on their hands. Students will then learn the proper way to wash their hands and check to make sure they clean all the germs
KITCHEN SCIENCE | $15.00 | 1, 90-Minute Lesson
Students get comfortable in the kitchen by exploring the world of chemistry using simple ingredients, food, utensils, and containers.
EMBRYOLOGY | $5.00 | 2, 45-Minute Lessons
This lesson teaches youth how life develops by observing the process of hatching baby chicks over three weeks. During this lesson, students learn about the makeup of eggs, the difference between store-bought 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 them in the incubator daily.
MOBILE SCIENCE LAB | TBD | Varied
The Mobile Science Lab brings science to youth through interactive activities showing them that science is all around them.
4-H STEM CHALLENGE | TBD | Varied
Each year 4-H STEM Challenge helps students to learn fundamental STEM skills while they wrestle with the same questions as today’s top scientists and engineers. Educators will provide a kit that walks through activities related to physics, light, engineering, coding, and more.
STEM DAYS | TBD | Field Day
Students learn about the engineering process through a variety of hands-on activities.
TEC BOX | $10.00 | 4, 45-Minute Lessons
Tinker. Explore. Create. Box was developed to introduce youth to the idea of entrepreneurship, encourage active listening that leads to empathy, and creative problem solving, and focus on non-technical aspects of entrepreneurship.
HEALTHY ME ENRICHMENT KIT | FREE | 4-6 Lessons
Students will learn about why their bodies need food, how bodies use their food, and how to plan healthy meals and healthy snacking. Classrooms are allowed to keep the kit for 4-6 weeks. All materials and lessons are provided for your classrooms. This program is a self-taught curriculum, with the final lesson taught by Jordan. An introductory video may be viewed here.
CATCH KIDS CLUB | FREE |
CKC nutrition curriculum is available for grades K-5 and 5-8, designed for after-school programs. Lessons focus on MyPlate food groups, physical activity, healthy snacks and beverages, and breakfast. It includes family newsletters, visual aids, handouts, and games.
MARATHON KIDS | FREE
Marathon Kids is a national running program designed to increase youth's physical activity levels and confidence through running or active minutes. Great for in-school (PE, classroom-based) or out-of-school (after/before school programs).
ANIMALS INSIDE & OUT | $10.00 | 3-6, 45-Minute Lessons Students will gain knowledge and understanding of livestock, equine, and companion animals through topics of management, body systems, and careers for understanding how animals work inside and out. Students will be able to experience hands-on learning opportunities to think like a veterinarian as they learn about the various topics to make connections of their knowledge of the animal industry to their lives. EMBRYOLOGY | $5.00 | 2, 45-Minute Lessons This lesson teaches youth how life develops by observing the process of hatching baby chicks over three weeks. During this lesson, students learn about the makeup of eggs, the difference between store-bought 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 them in the incubator daily. FARM IN A GLOVE | $5.00 | 2, 45-Minute LessonSecond Grade
DISSECTION: OWL PELLETS | $15.00 | 1, 45-Minute Lesson
Explore the world of animal predator/prey relationships by dissecting owl vomit (owl pellets). Students will learn about the life cycle of animals in the food chain, as well as how food gets broken down during digestion in owls and in humans.
FIRST TIME PHYSICS | $5.00 | 2, 45-Minute Lesson
Students can explore activities that investigate sound and light energy. The class will learn how sound can travel and how light rays slow down and can be bent.
HANDWASHING | FREE | 1, 45-Minute Lesson
Extension staff will use blue light and a special lotion to show students all the germs on their hands. Students will then learn the proper way to wash their hands and check to make sure they clean all the germs
KITCHEN SCIENCE | $15.00 | 1, 90-Minute Lesson
Students get comfortable in the kitchen by exploring the world of chemistry using simple ingredients, food, utensils, and containers.
MOBILE SCIENCE LAB | TBD | Varied
The Mobile Science Lab brings science to youth through interactive activities showing them that science is all around them.
4-H STEM CHALLENGE | FREE | Varied
Each year 4-H STEM Challenge helps students to learn fundamental STEM skills while they wrestle with the same questions as today’s top scientists and engineers. Educators will provide a kit that walks through activities related to physics, light, engineering, coding, and more.
STEM DAYS | TBD | Field Day
Students learn about the engineering process through a variety of hands-on activities.
TEC BOX | $10.00 | 4, 45-Minute Lessons
Tinker. Explore. Create. Box was developed to introduce youth to the idea of entrepreneurship, encourage active listening that leads to empathy, creative problem solving, and focus on non-technical aspects of entrepreneurship.
MYPLATE PARY SCHOOL ENRICHMENT KIT | FREE | 4-6 Lessons
Students will learn why they need food, how digestion works, and how to make healthy food choices. Classrooms are allowed to keep the kit for 4-6 weeks. All materials and lessons are provided for your classrooms. This program is a self-taught curriculum, with the final lesson taught by Jordan. An introductory video may be viewed here.
CATCH KIDS CLUB | FREE |
CKC nutrition curriculum is available for grades K-5 and 5-8, designed for after-school programs. Lessons focus on MyPlate food groups, physical activity, healthy snacks and beverages, and breakfast. It includes family newsletters, visual aids, handouts, and games.
MARATHON KIDS | FREE
Marathon Kids is a national running program designed to increase youth's physical activity levels and confidence through running or active minutes. Great for in-school (PE, classroom-based) or out-of-school (after/before school programs).
AG IN THE CLASSROOM KIT | $15.00 | Asynchronous Extension staff with providing you and your students with portable kits that help students to understand Nebraska’s largest industry – agriculture better. Kits include activities in the areas of crop production and livestock production. The kit allows teachers can teach at their own pace. AG LITERACY FESTIVAL | FREE | FIELD TRIP Agriculture is Nebraska's #1 industry, which means we’re all affected by it either directly or indirectly. Through this event, students will learn more about various areas of agriculture, including ag technology, beef, dairy, hogs, crops, ag by-products, and ag careers. ANIMALS INSIDE & OUT | $10.00 | 3-6, 45-Minute Lessons Students will gain knowledge and understanding of livestock, equine, and companion animals through topics of management, body systems, and careers for understanding how animals work inside and out. Students will be able to experience hands-on learning opportunities to think like a veterinarian as they learn about the various topics to make connections of their knowledge of the animal industry to their lives. FARM IN A GLOVE | $5.00 | 2, 45-Minute Lesson BRIDGES AND STRUCTURES | $15.00 | 3, 45-Minute Lessons DISSECTION: OWL PELLETS | $15.00 | 1, 45-Minute Lesson Explore the world of animal predator/prey relationships by dissecting owl vomit (owl pellets). Students will learn about the life cycle of animals in the food chain as well as how food gets broken down during digestion in owls and in humans. EMBRYOLOGY | $5.00 | 2, 45-Minute Lessons This lesson teaches youth how life develops by observing the process of hatching baby chicks over three weeks. During this lesson, students learn about the makeup of eggs, the difference between store-bought 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 them in the incubator daily. FIRST TIME PHYSICS | $5.00 | 2, 45-Minute Lesson Students can explore activities that investigate sound and light energy. The class will learn how sound can travel and how light rays slow down and can be bent. KITCHEN SCIENCE | $15.00 | 1, 90-Minute Lesson Students get comfortable in the kitchen by exploring the world of chemistry using simple ingredients, food, utensils, and containers. MOBILE SCIENCE LAB | TBD | Varied The Mobile Science Lab brings science to youth through interactive activities showing them that science is all around them. 4-H STEM CHALLENGE | FREE | Varied Each year 4-H STEM Challenge helps students to learn fundamental STEM skills while they wrestle with the same questions as today’s top scientists and engineers. Educators will provide a kit that walks through activities related to physics, light, engineering, coding, and more. STEM DAYS | TBD | Field Day Students learn about the engineering process through a variety of hands-on activities. ENGAGED U: MINDFUL MOVEMENT | $5.00 | 4, 45-Minute Lessons 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. TEC BOX | $10.00 | 4, 45-Minute Lessons Tinker. Explore. Create. Box was developed to introduce youth to the idea of entrepreneurship, encourage active listening that leads to empathy, and creative problem solving, and focus on non-technical aspects of entrepreneurship. LET'S EAT SMART SCHOOL ENRICHMENT KIT | FREE | 4-6 Lessons Students will learn about nutrients, food labels, balanced diets, and food safety. Classrooms are allowed to keep the kit for 4-6 weeks. All materials and lessons are provided for your classrooms. This program is a self-taught curriculum, with the final lesson taught by Jordan. An introductory video may be viewed here. CATCH KIDS CLUB | FREE CKC nutrition curriculum is available for grades K-5 and 5-8, designed for after-school programs. Lessons focus on MyPlate food groups, physical activity, healthy snacks and beverages, and breakfast. It includes family newsletters, visual aids, handouts, and games. CHOOSE HEALTH: FOOD, FUN, AND FITNESS (CHFFF) | FREE MARATHON KIDS | FREE Marathon Kids is a national running program designed to increase youth's physical activity levels and confidence through running or active minutes. Great for in-school (PE, classroom-based) or out-of-school (after/before school programs). Third Grade
AG IN THE CLASSROOM KIT | $15.00 | Asynchronous Extension staff with providing you and your students with portable kits that help students to understand Nebraska’s largest industry – agriculture better. Kits include activities in the areas of crop production and livestock production. The kit allows teachers can teach at their own pace. ANIMALS INSIDE & OUT | $10.00 | 3-6, 45-Minute Lessons Students will gain knowledge and understanding of livestock, equine, and companion animals through topics of management, body systems, and careers for understanding how animals work inside and out. Students will be able to experience hands-on learning opportunities to think like a veterinarian as they learn about the various topics to make connections of their knowledge of the animal industry to their lives. FARM IN A GLOVE | $5.00 | 2, 45-Minute Lesson BRIDGES AND STRUCTURES | $15.00 | 3, 45-Minute Lessons DISSECTION: OWL PELLETS | $15.00 | 1, 45-Minute Lesson Explore the world of animal predator/prey relationships by dissecting owl vomit (owl pellets). Students will learn about the life cycle of animals in the food chain, as well as how food gets broken down during digestion in owls and in humans. EMBRYOLOGY | $5.00 | 2, 45-Minute Lessons This lesson teaches youth how life develops by observing the process of hatching baby chicks over three weeks. During this lesson, students learn about the makeup of eggs, the difference between store-bought 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 them in the incubator daily. KITCHEN SCIENCE | $15.00 | 1, 90-Minute Lesson Students get comfortable in the kitchen by exploring the world of chemistry using simple ingredients, food, utensils, and containers. MOBILE SCIENCE LAB | TBD | Varied The Mobile Science Lab brings science to youth through interactive activities showing them that science is all around them. 4-H STEM CHALLENGE | FREE | Varied Each year 4-H STEM Challenge helps students to learn fundamental STEM skills while they wrestle with the same questions as today’s top scientists and engineers. Educators will provide a kit that walks through activities related to physics, light, engineering, coding, and more. STEM DAYS | TBD | Field Day Students learn about the engineering process through a variety of hands-on activities. ENGAGED U: MINDFUL MOVEMENT | $5.00 | 4, 45-Minute Lessons 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. TEC BOX | $10.00 | 4, 45-Minute Lessons Tinker. Explore. Create. Box was developed to introduce youth to the idea of entrepreneurship, encourage active listening that leads to empathy, and creative problem solving, and focus on non-technical aspects of entrepreneurship. RATE THE PLATE SCHOOL ENRICHMENT KIT | FREE | 4-6 Lessons Students will learn about nutrients, using MyPlate to make healthy choices, eating a healthy breakfast, and how eating healthy makes them feel good. Classrooms are allowed to keep the kit for 4-6 weeks. All materials and lessons are provided for your classrooms. This program is a self-taught curriculum, with the final lesson taught by Jordan. An introductory video may be viewed here. CATCH KIDS CLUB | FREE CKC nutrition curriculum is available for grades K-5 and 5-8, designed for after-school programs. Lessons focus on MyPlate food groups, physical activity, healthy snacks and beverages, and breakfast. It includes family newsletters, visual aids, handouts, and games. CHOOSE HEALTH: FOOD, FUN, AND FITNESS (CHFFF) | FREE MARATHON KIDS | FREE Marathon Kids is a national running program designed to increase youth's physical activity levels and confidence through running or active minutes. Great for in-school (PE, classroom-based) or out-of-school (after/before school programs). Fourth Grade
AG IN THE CLASSROOM KIT | $15.00 | Asynchronous Extension staff with providing you and your students with portable kits that help students to understand Nebraska’s largest industry – agriculture better. Kits include activities in the areas of crop production and livestock production. The kit allows teachers can teach at their own pace. ANIMALS INSIDE & OUT | $10.00 | 3-6, 45-Minute Lessons Students will gain knowledge and understanding of livestock, equine, and companion animals through topics of management, body systems, and careers for understanding how animals work inside and out. Students will be able to experience hands-on learning opportunities to think like a veterinarian as they learn about the various topics to make connections of their knowledge of the animal industry to their lives. FARM IN A GLOVE | $5.00 | 2, 45-Minute Lesson BRIDGES AND STRUCTURES | $15.00 | 3, 45-Minute Lessons CSI: DNA | $15.00 | 1, 90-Minute Lesson Students will construct DNA and discover how DNA sequencing aids investigators in solving crimes. Students will get to extract their DNA and see it with their own two eyes. DISSECTION: OWL PELLETS | $15.00 | 1, 45-Minute Lesson Explore the world of animal predator/prey relationships by dissecting owl vomit (owl pellets). Students will learn about the life cycle of animals in the food chain and how food gets broken down during digestion in owls and in humans. EMBRYOLOGY | $10.00 | 2, 45-Minute Lessons This lesson teaches youth how life develops by observing the process of hatching baby chicks over three weeks. During this lesson, students learn about the makeup of eggs, the difference between store-bought 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 them in the incubator daily. KITCHEN SCIENCE | $15.00 | 1, 90-Minute Lesson Students get comfortable in the kitchen by exploring the world of chemistry using simple ingredients, food, utensils, and containers. MICROBIOLOGY | $15.00 | 2, 45-Minute Lessons Gain a crash course in microbiology and learn about different types of salmonella and E. Coli that are present in the environment and in food. Students will also learn about good bacteria and yeasts that make up our food. MOBILE SCIENCE LAB | TBD | Varied The Mobile Science Lab brings science to youth through interactive activities showing them that science is all around them. 4-H STEM CHALLENGE | TBD | Varied Each year 4-H STEM Challenge helps students to learn fundamental STEM skills while they wrestle with the same questions as today’s top scientists and engineers. Educators will provide a kit that walks through activities related to physics, light, engineering, coding, and more. STEM DAYS | TBD | Field Day Students learn about the engineering process through a variety of hands-on activities. ENGAGED U: MINDFUL MOVEMENT | TBD | 4, 45-Minute Lessons 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 | $15.00 | 4-6, 45-Minute Lessons Students will see the world from a new perspective and learn to be more effective leaders, as well as team members. Leadership Discovery and Personality Trait Assessment sessions followed by engaging leadership development activities will help students learn interpersonal skills. SMART CENTS | $15.00 | 4-6, 45-Minute Lessons Smart Cents helps youth develop financial skills and habits that will 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. TEC BOX | $15.00 | 4, 45-Minute Lessons Tinker. Explore. Create. Box was developed to introduce youth to the idea of entrepreneurship, encourage active listening that leads to empathy, and creative problem solving, and focus on non-technical aspects of entrepreneurship. FOOD SCIENCE INVESTIGATOR SCHOOL ENRICHMENT KIT | FREE | 4-6 Lessons Students will learn what nutrients are important, using MyPlate to select healthy foods, food labels and their meanings, and food safety. Classrooms are allowed to keep the kit for 4-6 weeks. All materials and lessons are provided for your classrooms. This program is a self-taught curriculum, with the final lesson taught by Jordan. An introductory video may be viewed here. CATCH KIDS CLUB | FREE CKC nutrition curriculum is available for grades K-5 and 5-8, designed for after-school programs. Lessons focus on MyPlate food groups, physical activity, healthy snacks and beverages, and breakfast. It includes family newsletters, visual aids, handouts, and games. CHOOSE HEALTH: FOOD, FUN, AND FITNESS (CHFFF) | FREE MARATHON KIDS | FREE Marathon Kids is a national running program designed to increase youth's physical activity levels and confidence through running or active minutes. Great for in-school (PE, classroom-based) or out-of-school (after/before school programs). Fifth Grade
AG IN THE CLASSROOM KIT | $15.00 | Asynchronous Extension staff with providing you and your students with portable kits that help students to understand Nebraska’s largest industry – agriculture better. Kits include activities in the areas of crop production and livestock production. The kit allows teachers can teach at their own pace. ANIMALS INSIDE & OUT | $10.00 | 3-6, 45-Minute Lesssons Students will gain knowledge and understanding of livestock, equine, and companion animals through topics of management, body systems, and careers for understanding how animals work inside and out. Students will be able to experience hands-on learning opportunities to think like a veterinarian as they learn about the various topics to make connections of their knowledge of the animal industry to their lives. HUSKER BEEF LAB | TBD | VARIED BRIDGES AND STRUCTURES | $15.00 | 3, 45-Minute Lessons CSI: DNA | $15.00 | 1, 90-Minute Lesson Students will construct DNA and discover how DNA sequencing aids investigators in solving crimes. Students will get to extract their own DNA and see it with their own two eyes. EMBRYOLOGY | $5.00 | 2, 45-Minute Lessons This lesson teaches youth how life develops by observing the process of hatching baby chicks over three weeks. During this lesson, students learn about the makeup of eggs, the difference between store-bought 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 them in the incubator daily. KITCHEN SCIENCE | $15.00 | 1, 90-Minute Lesson Students get comfortable in the kitchen by exploring the world of chemistry using simple ingredients, food, utensils, and containers. MICROBIOLOGY | $15.00 | 2, 45-Minute Lessons Gain a crash course in microbiology and learn about different types of salmonella and E. Coli that are present in the environment and on food. Students will also learn about good bacteria and yeasts that make up our food. MOBILE SCIENCE LAB | TBD | Varied The Mobile Science Lab brings science to youth through interactive activities showing them that science is all around them. 4-H STEM CHALLENGE | Free | Varied Each year 4-H STEM Challenge helps students to learn fundamental STEM skills while they wrestle with the same questions as today’s top scientists and engineers. Educators will provide a kit that walks through activities related to physics, light, engineering, coding, and more. ENGAGED U: MINDFUL MOVEMENT | $5.00 | 4, 45-Minute Lessons 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 | $5.00 | 4-6, 45-Minute Lessons Students will see the world from a new perspective and learn to be more effective leaders, as well as team members. Leadership Discovery and Personality Trait Assessment sessions followed by engaging in leadership development activities will help students learn interpersonal skills. INVENTURE DAY | TBD | FIELD DAY Youth engage in conversations to develop and evaluate their unique business concepts around a given widget which is used as inspiration for a product or service. Teams more through the INVENTURE factory to complete challenges while learning about product development, target markets, branding, and finance. At the end of the day, teams present their business ideas to local business mentors in a product pitch competition. SMART CENTS | $15.00 | 4-6, 45-Minute Lessons Smart Cents helps youth develop financial skills and habits that will 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. CATCH KIDS CLUB | FREE CKC nutrition curriculum is available for grades K-5 and 5-8, designed for after-school programs. Lessons focus on MyPlate food groups, physical activity, healthy snacks and beverages, and breakfast. It includes family newsletters, visual aids, handouts, and games. CHOOSE HEALTH: FOOD, FUN, AND FITNESS (CHFFF) | FREE MARATHON KIDS | FREE Marathon Kids is a national running program designed to increase youth's physical activity levels and confidence through running or active minutes. Great for in-school (PE, classroom-based) or out-of-school (after/before school programs). Sixth Grade
AG IN THE CLASSROOM KIT | $15.00 | Asynchronous Extension staff with providing you and your students with portable kits that help students to understand Nebraska’s largest industry – agriculture better. Kits include activities in the areas of crop production and livestock production. The kit allows teachers can teach at their own pace. . HUSKER BEEF LAB | TBD | VARIED BRIDGES AND STRUCTURES | $15.00 | 3, 45-Minute Lessons CSI: DNA | $15.00 | 1, 90-Minute Lesson Students will construct DNA and discover how DNA sequencing aids investigators in solving crimes. Students will get to extract their own DNA and see it with their own two eyes. EMBRYOLOGY | $5.00 | 2, 45-Minute Lessons This lesson teaches youth how life develops by observing the process of hatching baby chicks over three weeks. During this lesson, students learn about the makeup of eggs, the difference between store-bought 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 them in the incubator daily. KITCHEN SCIENCE | $15.00 | 1, 90-Minute Lesson Students get comfortable in the kitchen by exploring the world of chemistry using simple ingredients, food, utensils, and containers. MICROBIOLOGY | $15.00 | 2, 45-Minute Lessons Gain a crash course in microbiology and learn about different types of salmonella and E. Coli that are present in the environment and on food. Students will also learn about good bacteria and yeasts that make up our food. MOBILE SCIENCE LAB | TBD | Varied The Mobile Science Lab brings science to youth through interactive activities, showing them that science is all around them. 4-H STEM CHALLENGE | FREE | Varied Each year 4-H STEM Challenge helps students to learn fundamental STEM skills while they wrestle with the same questions as today’s top scientists and engineers. Educators will provide a kit that walks through activities related to physics, light, engineering, coding, and more. ENGAGED U: MINDFUL MOVEMENT | $5.00 | 4, 45-Minute Lessons 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 | $5.00 | 4-6, 45-Minute Lessons Students will see the world from a new perspective and learn to be more effective leaders, as well as team members. Leadership Discovery and Personality Trait Assessment sessions followed by engaging leadership development activities will help students learn interpersonal skills. INVENTURE DAY | $5.00 | FIELD DAY Youth engage in conversations to develop and evaluate their unique business concepts around a given widget which is used as inspiration for a product or service. Teams more through the INVENTURE factory to complete challenges while learning about product development, target markets, branding, and finance. At the end of the day, teams present their business ideas to local business mentors in a product pitch competition. SMART CENTS | $15.00 | 4-6, 45-Minute Lessons Smart Cents helps youth develop financial skills and habits that will 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. CATCH KIDS CLUB | FREE CKC nutrition curriculum is available for grades K-5 and grades 5-8, designed for after-school programs. Lessons focus on MyPlate food groups, physical activity, healthy snacks and beverages, and breakfast. It includes family newsletters, visual aids, handouts, and games. MARATHON KIDS | FREE Marathon Kids is a national running program designed to increase youth's physical activity levels and confidence through running or active minutes. Great for in-school (PE, classroom-based) or out-of-school (after/before school programs). Junior High
HUSKER BEEF LAB | TBD | VARIED EMBRYOLOGY | $5.00 | 2, 45-Minute Lessons This lesson teaches youth how life develops by observing the process of hatching baby chicks over three weeks. During this lesson, students learn about the makeup of eggs, the difference between store-bought 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 them in the incubator daily. MICROBIOLOGY | $15.00 | 2, 45-Minute Lessons Gain a crash course in microbiology and learn about different types of salmonella and E. Coli that are present in the environment and in food. Students will also learn about good bacteria and yeasts that make up our food. MOBILE SCIENCE LAB | TBD | Varied The Mobile Science Lab brings science to youth through interactive activities, showing them that science is all around them. 4-H STEM CHALLENGE | FREE | Varied Each year 4-H STEM Challenge helps students to learn fundamental STEM skills while they wrestle with the same questions as today’s top scientists and engineers. Educators will provide a kit that walks through activities related to physics, light, engineering, coding, and more. CONNECTION THE DOTS | TBD | FIELD DAY Interactive career exploration simulation program designed to help students learn more about careers of interest. Students explore how to connect the dots from early high school through postsecondary education and training to the workplace. Participants will learn about networking, work readiness skills, and complete personality inventories. Pairs well with Resume & Interview Prep Program. Offered to 9 & 10 grades. RESUME & INTERVIEW PREP |FREE | 2, 45-Minute Lessons Extension staff work with students to prepare them for the “real world”. Students will evaluate and learn about proper interview techniques, building their resumes, and making a good first impression with a firm handshake. MARATHON KIDS | FREE Marathon Kids is a national running program designed to increase youth's physical activity levels and confidence through running or active minutes. Great for in-school (PE, classroom-based) or out-of-school (after/before school programs). High School