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4-H Natural Resources & Environmental Education

Title Summary Date ID Author(s)
4-H Forestry Projects PDF (3MB) May 1, 2009 420-025
4-H Virtual Forest May 19, 2009
Checklist of Virginia Trees and Their Uses PDF (147KB) May 1, 2009 420-065
City of Hampton 3rd Grade Urban Forestry Project PDF (225KB) May 1, 2009 420-071
City of Hampton 4th Grade Urban Forestry Project PDF (136KB) May 1, 2009 420-072
City of Hampton 5th Grade Urban Forestry Project PDF (633KB) May 1, 2009 420-073
Grading Key - Tree Identification Contest #1 PDF (574KB) May 1, 2009 420-067
How to Plant and Care for a Seedling PDF (117KB) May 1, 2009 390-070
Key to Tree Identification Contest #2 PDF (72KB) May 1, 2009 420-400
Key to Tree Identification Contest #2 PDF (76KB) May 1, 2009 420-401
Leader’s Guide to Tree Planting Projects PDF (800KB) May 1, 2009 420-026
Tree Identification Contest #1 PDF (572KB) May 1, 2009 420-066
Trees In Your Backyard PDF (528KB) May 1, 2009 420-070
Virginia 4-H Forestry Judging Project Book PDF (339KB) May 1, 2009 420-125
Virginia 4-H Pine Seedling Project PDF (1MB) May 1, 2009 420-068
Virginia 4-H School Enrichment: Forestry PDF (2MB)

Extension agents and volunteers should not hesitate to start a program in forestry because of a perceived lack of knowledge. There are forestry professionals in every county, and most realize that attitudes of youth will profoundly affect the future of forestry. The following six lessons were selected because they represent activities that youth enjoy, and they lead to other 4-H projects and activities. All of them match SOLs for the suggested grades.

May 1, 2009 388-802
Virginia Forest Health Project PDF (765KB) May 1, 2009 420-069
Virginia Wildlife Project - Wildlife Foods PDF (7MB) May 1, 2009 390-405
Wood Magic: A wood science curriculum for fourteen-to eighteen-year-olds PDF (10MB) Nov 9, 2009 388-809
Wood Magic: A wood science curriculum for nine to eleven year olds PDF (6MB) Nov 9, 2009 388-807