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The Board of Health Activity

This exercise encourages participants to better understand the multiple dimensions of health and wellness.

BACKGROUND

4-H ON HEALTH

The 4-H Healthy Living Initiative focuses of five domains:

  • physical activity
  • social/emotional health and well-being
  • injury prevention
  • alcohol, tobacco, and drug use prevention
  • healthy eating

4-H defines different dimensions of health in the following ways:

Best Foot Forward: Helping 4-H'ers Create Dynamic Presentations

First Things First

Visual presentations using software such as Microsoft PowerPoint are an important aspect of being a successful 4-H member. Presentations can be helpful as you work through the experiential learning model. Sharing what has happened with others after an activity helps everyone process what is important. It helps you organize your thoughts and encourages you to apply what you have learned. Learning good presentation habits and skills now will help you as you prepare for college and your future career.

Participating in the Mississippi 4-H Cloverleaf Exhibit

The Mississippi 4-H Cloverleaf exhibit allows Mississippi 4-H members ages 8–9 years old explore and share what they have learned in a noncompetitive environment. This means all participants in the Mississippi 4-H Cloverleaf exhibit are recognized for participating and are not competitively ranked.

A Mississippi 4-H Cloverleaf exhibit tells a story to an audience about a 4-H member’s project. These exhibits may be used for teaching at 4-H club meetings, district 4-H project achievement days, or fairs.

4-H Horticulture Handbook

If you like variety, you should love horticulture. In horticulture, we grow some plants for beauty, such as flowers, houseplants, ornamental shrubs, and trees. We also grow plants for food, such as vegetables, fruits, nuts, and herbs. We grow other plants for medicines, such as foxglove and periwinkle. Proper handling of plants requires a great deal of skill. This handbook will help you develop skills and knowledge in horticulture. The first section is for seniors only. The second section is for juniors and seniors.

4-H Forestry Project No.7-Measuring Standing Sawtimber

One of the most important aspects of forestry is growing a crop of trees. However, a crop of trees is measured and sold in a different way than the crops familiar to most of us.

Soybeans are sold by the bushel, and cotton is sold by the pound or bale. Farmers receive a certain amount, depending on markets, for each bushel or pound they sell. Have you ever wondered how a tree farmer measures his crop of trees and how these trees are sold?

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