4-H Civic Education Project

• Get to know the other members in your club and what they like to do for fun
• Participate in your club’s community service project
• Discover the history of your school or community
• Help pick up trash in your local park or town

• Find out the names of your local or state representatives
• Observe a community board meeting like your 4-H council
• Create and carry out a plan to help someone in your community
• Find service learning ideas HERE

• Volunteer to be a tutor or mentor in your school
• Investigate county or city government and learn what they do
• Interview someone from local government like the mayor of your town
• Identify a cause important to you and determine how to make a difference

Assist with or organize a food drive, help a neighbor with a project, set up a local recycling station, design an escape plan for your family in case of a fire, take on a new responsibility at home.

Create a flyer to highlight service work you and your club did throughout the year, participate in your county’s communication arts contest, run for school government.

Become a certified babysitter or become certified in CPR, sell at your local farmer’s market, develop a business.

Volunteer at a retirement home or senior center to teach them how to use technology and avoid scams, create a video promoting 4-H or a service learning project.

LAW (Leadership Awareness Weekend), EYC (Extension Youth Conference), National 4-H Congress, National 4-H Conference, Citizenship Washington Focus, 4-H Ignite.

• Portfolio of your family history
• Display on how a bill becomes a law
• Poster illustrating your service learning project
• Example of a club newsletter you designed
• Display on the different branches of government

Citizenship

• WeConnect: Facilitator Guide (AD201)

Service Learning

• Level 1: Agents of Change (AH101)
• Level 2: Raise Your Voice
• Service Learning Helper’s Guide (AH201)
• My Hands to Larger Service (AH103) - OSU

• Planning for My Project Adventure (PA093)
• ND 4-H Project Plan (PA095)
• ND 4-H Plan of Action (PA096)
• ND 4-H Participation Summary for 11 to 19 year olds (PA098)

• Leadership Awareness Weekend (LAW)
• National 4-H Congress
• National 4-H Conference
• Citizenship Washington Focus

• Ellis Island
• Congress for Kids
• Education World
• Character Counts

Civic Education involves learning what it means to be a good citizen. As citizens of our county, we have many rights. To exercise these rights, we need to understand our responsibilities that go along with them. How would you define rights and responsibilities? Here is a common definition:

Rights – entitlement, privilege or freedoms

Responsibility – our duty to preserve our rights and work for the common good

Here is a great simple video to help you better understand rights and responsibilities: https://youtu.be/FWwEMFSY1r0?si=KIe7fe7iP9ngZCJY

Questions to think about:

• Why is having rights and responsibilities important?

• What is more important: rights or responsibilities?

• What would you do if you don’t agree with a responsibility expected of you?

• Think about rights and responsibilities you have. How can you use your rights and responsibilities to make your community, state, nation and world a better place?