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4-H STEM Adventures is a curriculum of six STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) lesson plans that teach STEM principles and 4-H life skills via a challenge to be solved using low-cost, easy-to-find materials. Each lesson has two tracks: an open-ended exploratory option and a step-by-step guided option. Videos introduce each challenge and provide sample solutions for viewers. These lessons are appropriate for youth ages 8-13 and can be used in the classroom, 4-H club, home, and out-of-school settings. In this challenge, the Youth will build a mini-golf course that includes obstacles. Challenge 5 introduces the STEM concept of the law of reflection and targets the life skill of planning. Authors: Jessica Mellon, and Christine Allred; Title: Challenge 5-Mini Golf Course, 4-H STEM Adventures-Facilitator Guide (EC-14)

4-H STEM Adventures is a curriculum of six STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) lesson plans that teach STEM principles and 4-H life skills via a challenge to be solved using low-cost, easy-to-find materials. Each lesson has two tracks: an open-ended exploratory option and a step-by-step guided option. Videos introduce each challenge and provide sample solutions for viewers. These lessons are appropriate for youth ages 8-13 and can be used in the classroom, 4-H club, home, and out-of-school settings. In this challenge, youth will design and build a catapult that can launch a small projectile. Challenge 6 introduces the STEM concepts of potential and kinetic energy and targets the life skills of record keeping and personal safety. Authors: Jessica Mellon, and Christine Allred; Title: Challenge 3-Catapult, 4-H STEM Adventures-Facilitator Guide (EC-14)

4-H STEM Adventures is a curriculum of six STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) lesson plans that teach STEM principles and 4-H life skills via a challenge to be solved using low-cost, easy-to-find materials. Each lesson has two tracks: an open-ended exploratory option and a step-by-step guided option. Videos introduce each challenge and provide sample solutions for viewers. These lessons are appropriate for youth ages 8-13 and can be used in the classroom, 4-H club, home, and out-of-school settings. In this challenge, youth will build a mobile that balances. Challenge 6 introduces the STEM concept of levers and targets the life skill of problem solving. Authors: Jessica Mellon, and Christine Allred; Title: Challenge 6-Mobile, 4-H STEM Adventures-Facilitator Guide (EC-14)

4-H STEM Adventures is a curriculum of six STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) lesson plans that teach STEM principles and 4-H life skills via a challenge to be solved using low-cost, easy-to-find materials. Each lesson has two tracks: an open-ended exploratory option and a step-by-step guided option. Videos introduce each challenge and provide sample solutions for viewers. These lessons are appropriate for youth ages 8-13 and can be used in the classroom, 4-H club, home, and out-of-school settings. In this challenge, the youth will build a marble roller coaster that moves a marble from top to bottom. Challenge 4 introduces the STEM concepts of potential and kinetic energy and targets the life skill of critical thinking. Authors: Jessica Mellon, and Christine Allred; Title: Challenge 4-Marble Roller Coaster, 4-H STEM Adventures-Facilitator Guide (EC-14)

4-H STEM Adventures is a curriculum of six STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) lesson plans that teach STEM principles and 4-H life skills via a challenge to be solved using low-cost, easy-to-find materials. Each lesson has two tracks: an open-ended exploratory option and a step-by-step guided option. Videos introduce each challenge and provide sample solutions for viewers. These lessons are appropriate for youth ages 8-13 and can be used in the classroom, 4-H club, home, and out-of-school settings. In this challenge, Youth will build a paper tower as tall as they are. Challenge 2 introduces the STEM concept of constraint and targets the life skill of problem solving. Authors: Jessica Mellon, and Christine Allred; Title: Challenge 2-Tall Tower, 4-H STEM Adventures-Facilitator Guide (EC-14)

Feed Our Future is an initiative of the University of Maryland Extension (UME)-Baltimore City that employs a community development approach to meeting the needs and interests of underserved communities within Baltimore City, particularity those located in food deserts. (i) Through community partnerships and collaborations, the UME-Baltimore City Feed Our Future initiative will support and nurture underserved communities in Baltimore City with research-based educational programming that focuses on major issues facing Baltimore City residents, which include: obesity, health, financial literacy, food quality and access, the environment, and positive youth development. (i) The USDA defines a food desert as a “low-access community,” at least 500 people and/or at least 33 percent of the census tract's population must reside more than one mile from a supermarket or large grocery store (for rural census tracts, the distance is more than 10 miles).