Category: Curriculum

COVID-19 and UF/IFAS Extension

Posted: March 15, 2020

Updated 03/16/20 As we continue to monitor COVID-19 in Florida, I wanted to take a moment to update our UF/IFAS Extension community about our current status, best practices and next steps. Please call your local UF/IFAS Extension office… Read More

Category: 4-H & Youth, Agribusiness, Agriculture, Camp, Clubs & Volunteers, Coasts & Marine, Community Volunteers, Conservation, Crops, Curriculum, Disaster Preparation, Events, Farm Management, Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Food Safety, Forests, Fruits & Vegetables, Health & Nutrition, Home Landscapes, Home Management, Horticulture, Invasive Species, Lawn, Livestock, Money Matters, Natural Resources, Pests & Disease, Pests & Disease, Professional Development, Recreation, Relationships & Family, SFYL Hot Topic, Turf, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Extension, UF/IFAS Research, UF/IFAS Teaching, Uncategorized, Water, Wildlife, Work & Life

Tags: COVID-19, Featured Hot Topic, Hot Topic

STEM+Agriculture and 4-H!

by Anne Elise Creamer

Posted: July 11, 2017

What is “STEAM”? Science, technology, engineering, agriculture (or art!), and math! It is important that youth have opportunities to engage in these fields, as they instill critical thinking, curiosity, global engagement, and the confidence to change the world… Read More

Category: 4-H & Youth, Agriculture, Camp, Clubs & Volunteers, Curriculum, Natural Resources, Professional Development, UF/IFAS Extension, UF/IFAS Teaching

Tags: 4-H, Agriculture, STEAM, STEM, Youth

Benefits of Trusting Youth as Scientists

by Anne Elise Creamer

Posted: June 30, 2017

A review of Ballard (2017) Growing up in 4-H, I saw myself as a real scientist. I took water quality samples for LakeWatch, informed fellow 4-H youth about deadly amoeba in Florida lakes, and used bug collections to… Read More

Category: 4-H & Youth, Curriculum, UF/IFAS Teaching

Tags: STEM, Youth as scientists