Posts Tagged: 4-H Sustainable You! Summer Camp

4-H Sustainable You! Summer Camp

Day 2-Land The day begins with journaling and a farm nature walk. Along the way, campers encounter evidence or indicators that animals use and call the farm home. Today is about understanding the importance of open space, natural resources and...

Land day farm nature walk

Farm nature walk

Evidence of life on the farm

Recycle Reuse Reduce

Waste watcher trash tracker updated each day

Learning about worm composting

Worm bin assembly line

Worms and more worms

Hands-on learning at its best

Worm bins to take home

Today's harvest, kale

2019 4-H Sustainable You! Summer Camp

UC HAREC began hosting 4-H Sustainable You! Summer Camp in 2014. Since then, the education staff has trained other UC Research and Extension Center (RECS) staff to deliver this curriculum created by Dr. Roslyn Brain of Utah State University. Similar...

tie dye activity

tie dyed camp shirts

Pondering the journal questions of the day

Planting seeds to grow indoor plants that can provide oxygen in our home environments

REC Educators Gather at Hansen

Education Specialists representing state wide Research and Extension Centers System (RECS) sites gathered February 15-16 at Hansen. This second annual meeting was an opportunity to meet new staff, share best practices, and participate in professional...

Dr. Steven Worker delivers an Introduction to Science Education for youth

Stacey Wills, Farm Smart Manager, Desert REC participates in hands-on acitivity during workshop

Greg Ira, California Naturalist Program Coordinator and Ali Stefancich, CES II Sierra Foothill REC participate in activities

Ali Stefancich presents Sierra Foothills REC education outreach best pracitices

Shanna Abatti, 4-H Program Representative demonstrates Sustainble You! Summer Camp air quality activity

Sustainble You! Summer Camp at Rio del Mar School

Rio School District, in Oxnard, is a welcomed new partner. This year, Rio added the 4-H Sustainable You! Summer Camp curriculum to their district-wide Summer Science Camp that serves over 200 students K-6th grade and runs for the next three weeks. The...

Gena Mathwin, Rio School District, delivering the 4-H Sustainable You! Summer Camp program, demonstrates how to build a worm bin

Daily journaling is a very important part of the learning process

Building a worm bin requires use of math skills

building a worm bin to take home

Red wiggler worms

Adding worms to each bin

Building a class sized worm bin

Sustainable You! Summer Camp 2016

Today, campers study Land. The average person generates 4.3 pounds of waste daily. Campers follow a piece of trash from curb-side to landfill and discuss reduce, reuse, recycle and responsibility we all share in caring for the earth. Day 2: Land  

Land journal questions

Appreciating the beauty of the earth from space

Campers practice throughout the week to reduce waste by recycling and composting

Heading out on safari

HAREC Safari-exploring the farm while looking for signs of animals living in the farm habitat. Lesson adapted from Project Learning Tree-Schoolyard Safari

Visiting the worm compost

Investigating a compost worm

Campers create their own compost worm bin to take home.

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