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Health Project

In the 4-H Health projects, you will learn:

• how to use knowledge, skills, and better practices relating to personal health and safety;
• how to increase positive activities that promote physical health and well-being; and
• skills such as decision-making, getting along with others, planning and organizing, and responsibility.

Project Materials - HEALTH
(For Youth Ages 8-13)

You will enjoy the challenge of keeping fit and healthy as you complete the experiential activities in these three guides. Through these activities you will discover the benefits of
being fit, practice making decisions, managing yourselves and speaking with others.

Member and Leader Manuals (Ages 8-13)
HL2 1            First Aid in Action
HL2 2            Staying Healthy
HL2 3            Keeping Fit
HL2 H           Helper's Guide

HEALTH - Level 1 (Ages 8-10)

• First Aid in Action teaches 4-Hers the basics of first aid skills to treat cuts, scrapes, nosebleeds and bee stings. They learn how to respond to someone who is choking or has broken a bone; assemble a first aid kit; and interview members of the medical profession. Available through National 4-H Council.
• Staying Healthy teaches 4-Hers to design their own personal fitness plan and track it using their own fitness file. Through interviews and personal experiences youth discover the benefits to being fit as they practice making decisions, speaking with others and managing themselves. Available through National 4-H Council.

HEALTH - Level 2 (Ages 11-13)

• Keeping Fit teaches 4-Hers how to use the self-assessment tool to identify personal talent areas smarts, explore hygiene, nutrition and physical activities, and share what they discover with a new appreciation of personal interests and talent. Available through National 4-H Council.

HEALTH - Level 3 (Ages 14-18)

• There is no project guide for this level.

Leader/Helper Guide

There is not a separate Helper's Guide for these activities.

 

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