Healthy Living Curriculum
Gila County 4-H Curriculum Library
- Search the lists below to find a curriculum that's right for you.
- Complete the Curriculum Library Reservation Form.
- Staff will contact you within 5 business days to complete the reservation process.
- Pick up your kit at the UArizona Cooperative Extension office at 5515 S. Apache Ave., Suite 600, Globe AZ, 85501. Please contact staff BEFORE picking up your reserved materials.
Available Curriculum
Kit: Fitness Club – Help kids learn about fitness and how they can incorporate it into their daily lives. The six lessons include: Fitness Basics, Aerobic-Cardiovascular Endurance, Muscle Strength, Flexibility & Balance and two lessons of open physical fitness activities.
Backpacking 1: Hiking Trails – This curriculum covers shelter selection, Leave No Trace camping skills, outdoor cooking and environmental awareness and appreciation when hiking. For reference, this is Level 1 of 3 in the backpacking series.
Backpacking 2: Camping Adventures – This curriculum focuses on hiking for a day. Learn about clothing needs, packing a daypack, reading topographic maps, and orienteering skills.
Backpacking 3: Backpacking Expedition – This curriculum focuses on being on the trail for extended periods of time. It includes clothing needs; tent setup; using backcountry stoves; basic nutrition; menu planning for multi-day hikes; personal hygiene & basic first aid as content areas.
Bicycle 1: Bicycling for Fun – Beginning riders learn the essentials for getting started safely and successfully. There are 15 activities on topics such as wearing protective equipment, fitting a helmet, identifying bike parts, choosing & fitting a bike, braking, identifying traffic signs, locating road hazards, and planning a bicycle trip.
Bicycle 2: Wheels in Motion – This is the Helper's Guide to the Bicycle Series. The activities in the Helper's Guide are designed for group learning and may be used at any time with the Level 1 or Level 2 books. Groups will organize group rides, practice bicycle skills, and play fun bicycle games.
Bicycle Helpers Guide – Youth learn advanced skills as they explore their surroundings. There are 15 activities on topics such as shopping for a bike, performing specialized repairs, maintenance activities, shifting gears, riding a bike safely at night or in bad weather, learning about good nutrition for cyclists, and becoming involved in advocacy for bicycling.
Health Rocks! Healthy Life Series Beginning Level – Health Rocks! is a 4-H Healthy Living program with the goal of bringing youth, families and communities together to reduce tobacco, alcohol, e-cigarette/vaping, and drug use. Through the power of youth/adult partnerships, Health Rocks! instills in youth participants confidence and communication skills necessary to develop the internal strength to resist risky behaviors.
Health Rocks! Healthy Life Series Intermediate Level – Health Rocks! is a 4-H Healthy Living program with the goal of bringing youth, families and communities together to reduce tobacco, alcohol, e-cigarette/vaping, and drug use. This curriculum guide is for ages 12-14.
Outdoor Adventures Group Helpers Guide – This guide enables helpers to facilitate the teaching of the Outdoor Adventures curriculum. Utilizing the experiential learning model, the guide targets technical, organizational, problem solving, safety and communication skills.
Sport Fishing: Take the Bait – Youth have fun tying knots, casting to a target, rigging various lines, selecting tackle, identifying where fish are, using different baits & lures, identifying fish, and identifying internal & external fish parts.
Sport Fishing: Cast into the Future – Youth develop their leadership and fishing skills as they take a friend fishing, demonstrate how to disassemble and reassemble a fishing reel, design and conduct a sportfishing skillathon, make artificial flies, design and craft a lure, customize tackle, build and use a kick net, respond to ethical situations, and interview a professional fisherman.
Sport Fishing: Curriculum: Reel in the Fun – In this guide, youth cast using a spinning rod & fly rod & bait casting reel, practice responsible citizenship, research fishing regulations, decorate a lure, sew a fly wallet, tie an artificial fly & test a water sample.
Sport Fishing: Helpers Guide – This is a guide for the group helper looking for activities that will involve the entire group and even the parents, this guide is an excellent resource. Accompanies the Sports Fishing Curriculum.