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This Youth, Community, and Therapeutic Gardening Chapter from the Extension Gardener Handbook helps volunteers understand how these types of gardens can be sucessful and the steps needed to be an effective mentor.

• Youth Project
• Therapeutic Garden
• Accessibility
• Community Garden

This appendix is part of the Extension Gardener Handbook and gives users to the tools to implement a youth, community, or therapeutic garden.

• Gardening
• Harvesting
• Youth Project
• Therapeutic Garden
• Extension Gardener Handbook
• Community
• Community Gardening
• Youth
• Community Garden
• School Garden
• Partnership
• Food In School

This educational resource for children aged 13-15 explains basic rules for being a good sportsman while hunting or fishing on another’s property.

• Wildlife
• Youth Project
• 4-H
• Fishing
• Hunting
• Outdoor Recreation

This publication offers information on youth showmanship of meat goats.

• Youth Project
• Meat Goat

This educational resource for children aged 13-15 explains how to properly handle, store, dress and prepare wild game or fish.

• Deer
• Youth Project
• 4-H
• Fishing
• Hunting

This educational resource for children aged 9-12 explains how to build, place and monitor a suitable nesting structure for mourning doves.

• Wildlife
• Youth Project
• 4-H
• Bird
• Mourning Dove

This factsheet offers information on showing meat goats for youth aged 5-6.

• Youth Project
• Meat Goat

This educational resource for children aged 9-12 explains how to identify a wide variety of animal tracks.

• Wildlife
• Youth Project
• 4-H
• Outdoor Recreation

This educational resource for children aged 13-15 explains how to keep detailed records of butterfly observations and recommends which plants would be most beneficial to local butterflies.

• Wildlife
• Butterfly
• Youth Project
• 4-H
• Entomology
• Insect

This educational resource for children aged 9-12 offers information about turtles and their role in nature.

• Wildlife
• Youth Project
• 4-H
• Turtle
• Reptile
• Herpetology

This educational resource for children aged 13-15 explains how to recognize and record wild turkey vocalizations; then give an oral presentation discussing how turkeys communicate.

• Wildlife
• Turkey
• Youth Project
• 4-H
• Bird

This educational resource for children aged 13-15 explains how to observe urban wildlife, record information and use findings to develop a wildlife habitat improvement plan.

• Wildlife
• Youth Project
• 4-H

This educational resource for children aged 9-12 explains the different types of baits and lures and their effectiveness in attracting fish.

• Youth Project
• 4-H
• Fishing
• Fishing Bait

This educational resource for children aged 13-15 explains how to plant food plots and manipulate the seed bank to improve food resources for white-tailed deer and other wildlife species.

• Wildlife
• Youth Project
• 4-H

This educational resource for children aged 13-15 explains how to collect and identify stream insects and other tiny invertebrates in a group outing.

• Insects
• Youth Project
• 4-H
• Invertebrate

This educational resource for children aged 9-12 explains which bodies of water are suitable for amphibian growth and development.

• Amphibian
• Youth Project
• 4-H

This educational resource for children aged 13-15 explains how to build a model of a wetland and its functions or map how stormwater flows between their neighborhoods and the ocean.

• Youth Project
• 4-H
• Estuary

This educational resource for children aged 9-12 explores the nesting and feeding requirements of birds and explains how to build nesting boxes.

• Wildlife
• Youth Project
• 4-H
• Bird

This educational resource for children aged 9-12 explains how to identify and locate household materials to recycle in the construction of archery equipment.

• Youth Project
• 4-H
• Archery

This educational resource for children aged 13-15 explains the physical and technical skills expected of entry-level wildlife and fishery biologists and/or law enforcement officers, and explains how to evaluate personal abilities along with educational and vocational needs and opportunities.

• Wildlife
• Youth Project
• 4-H
• Career
• Career Pathway

This educational resource for children aged 9-12 explains characteristics of lizards that distinguish them from other animals.

• Wildlife
• Youth Project
• 4-H
• Herpetology
• Lizard

This educational resource for children aged 9-12 explains how to identify snakes and their behavior in nature.

• Wildlife
• Youth Project
• 4-H
• Snake
• Reptile
• Herpetology

This educational resource for children aged 13-15 explains how to collect used materials, construct and strategically place nest boxes for wood ducks.

• Wildlife
• Youth Project
• 4-H
• Wood Duck
• Duck
• Bird

This educational resource for children aged 9-12 explores studying beaver biology and behavior through inquiry-based learning strategies.

• Wildlife
• Beaver
• Youth Project
• 4-H

This educational resource for children aged 13-15 explains how to identify nuisance wildlife situations and make recommendations for minimizing damage.

• Wildlife
• Youth Project
• 4-H

This factsheet offers information on showing sheep for youth aged 7-8.

• Youth Project
• Sheep

This educational resource for children aged 13-15 explains how to collect information on fish populations and evaluate it to determine management recommendations for ponds.

• Youth Project
• 4-H
• Fishing
• Pond Management
• Pond

This educational resource for children aged 9-12 explores food preferences in animals through inquiry-based learning strategies.

• Animal
• Youth Project
• 4-H
• Animal Husbandry