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Learning Seed
Learning Seed provides a catalog and web site listing educational videos
and CD- ROMs. Subjects covered include: foods and nutrition; parenting
and children; thinking skills; consumer education, marketing education,
multi-cultural, house and interior design, careers and job skills, clothing
and fabrics. Most videos are less than 30 minutes and cost about $89.
Videos may be previewed.
Contact information: phone 1-800-634-4941 Fax 1-800-998-0854 www.learningseed.com
Michigan State University Extension Out-of-School Time
At this site you will find a list of resources for out-of-school time
programming assembled by MSU 4-H and Family and Consumer Sciences specialists
and agents. There are also useful links for out-of-school time programming..
http://www.msue.msu.edu/cyf/OST
Ohio 4-H Cloverbud Connections Newsletter
This newsletter serves as a major Ohio publication for 4-H volunteers
working with K-2 youth. The newsletter is a collaborative effort with
county and state Extension staff. 4-H professionals write and edit the
quarterly newsletter providing research based articles and activities
for five-to-eight year olds.
http://www.ag.ohio-state.edu/~monr/Cloverbud/clvbud.htm
Spanish Resources for K-2nd Grade:
The adult manual for the Ohio 4-H Cloverbud Program for children K- 2nd
Grade has been translated into Spanish and is present on the World Wide
Web at: http://www.ohio4h.org/cloverbuds/handbook/seriesone/esp/frontpage.htm
The Character Education Task Force of the Programs Committee of NAE4HA
has been working on compiling a list of character education materials
developed by Extension professionals. The site is an alphabetical list
of materials for a variety of ages and settings, by title. Each item on
the list includes a brief description, target age, cost and directions
for ordering. The list includes both juried materials and materials that
have NOT completed that process. The list has been posted on the following
web site: http://www.reeusda.gov/4h/curricul/character-edu.htm
The 4-H Cooperative Curriculum System is a resource for printed materials
(over 150 curriculum products) to support youth development programs K-12.
The web site is http://www.n4hccs.org
Publications from the Search Institute for Out of School Time:
Tag, You’re It! by Kathleen Kimball-Baker, offers
50 ways for older community members to connect with youth. It is a simplistic
representation of the Search Institute’s asset-building concept to
involve adults in the lives of youths, 137 pages. $7.95.
Contact information: www.search-institute.org
More Building Assets Together by Rebecca Grothe, details
130 activities the author has bound effective in helping youth realize
and develop their own potential.
Contact information: www.search-institute.org
Web Sites for Out of School Programs: http://northeast.osu.edu/neurban/outofschool/websites.html
The sites at this link were reviewed and found suitable and also interesting
to youth of various ages.
These sites are useful for out-of-school time programs so that the available
computers can be both fun and educational for the children. The appropriate
age for each site is noted Not all aspects of every site have been reviewed.
This is not an endorsement.
Sites were selected and annotated by:
Joseph H. Konen, District Specialist, Urban Programs, Ohio State University
Extension, Northeast District
1680 Madison Avenue, Wooster, OH 44691-4096
Voice: 330-263-3831 Fax: 330-263-3667 email:konen.2@osu.edu
Web Sites for Out of School Time Programs -- Sites in Spanish:
http://northeast.osu.edu/neurban/outofschool/spasites.html
(see description above) These are different sites that are in Spanish
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