Florida 4-H Program Handbook

SECTION 10: 4-H Publication Management

Types of Materials in the Florida 4-H Publication System

Materials often include a leader’s guide, a member’s manual/workbook, and a recordbook.

Volunteer Leader guides are developed to help create a lesson plan for adult volunteers/helpers to lead groups and individuals in 4-H activities centered around a specific project area. They usually contain several levels of activities to be used for different ages of members.

Member manuals/workbooks either allow an individual to work on a project without direct supervision to let the youth participate and experience the material at their own pace or they follow the activities in the leader’s guides designed to be facilitated by an adult in a group project meeting. Regardless, member manuals should present material in a suitable and easily followed format for the specific age of the youth.

Recordbooks are used to teach youth to keep accurate records of their projects and as a personal evaluation of their project and its accomplishments. They allow youth to track the project’s development in each stage and provide others with evidence of project completion.

Supplemental material produced by 4-H includes brochures, videos, and other educational tools such as learning lab or skill-a-thon loan kits. Promotional items, organizational items, and volunteer development items are also included in this category.

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