SCHOOL
ADVANCEMENT PROGRAM
LEVEL
FOUR: CIVIC ACTION STAGE
A 4-H Wildlife Stewards
Member School must earn AT LEAST 160 points out of a possible 205.
Requirements with a "*" indicate
that this is a mandatory requirement.
EXPECTED TIME TO COMPLETE
LEVEL FIVE: Two years
PLANNING
AND SHARING (80 points)
- Students update the site
plan map with overlays (5 points)
- Students analyze wildlife
monitoring date and create reports, displays and graphs for educating
others (15 points)
- Students submit a written
article about their project to their media (10 points)
- Students prepare and deliver
an oral presentation of what they learned with groups and organizations
outside the school (15 points)
- Students share what they
learned from their project and recommended courses of action to elected
officials (15 points)
- Students serve on community
committees or boards that address community environment issues such
as watershed councils (10 points)
- Students provide assistance
and/or training to a Level One, Two or Three 4-H Wildlife Stewards
Member School (10 points)
MAINTAIN
THE SITE (20 points)
- Maintain the Wildlife
Habitat Site (10 points)
- Teachers continue to use
the habitat site as an outdoor learning laboratory (10 points)
4-H
WILDLIFE STEWARDS HABITAT TEAM (45 points)
- A Wildlife Habitat Annual
Native Plant sale is established to provide maintenance funds for
the project (15 points)
- At the high school level
at least 50% of the habitat team is comprised of students, 25% of
middle school students comprise the habitat team and 10% of elementary
school students comprise the habitat team (15 points)
- Recruit additional parents
or teachers to complete the 4-H Wildlife Stewards Training Course
(15 points)
RECORD
KEEPING (35 points)
- Submit the annual 4-H
Wildlife Stewards In-school Enrollment (5 points)*
- 4-H Wildlife Stewards
submit a record of their volunteer hours to the 4-H Wildlife Stewards
Office (5 points)*
- Students maintain individual
record books or journals of their involvement in the project (10 points)
- Complete a 4-H Wildlife
Stewards Level Four Advancement Program Application (5 points)*
- Student Teams submit exhibits
at the 4-H State Fairs (10 points)
CELEBRATE
SUCCESS (30 points)
- Invite 4-H Wildlife Stewards
staff to a special ceremony to celebrate certification of Level Four
(10 points)*
- Work with 4-H Wildlife
Stewards staff to secure a feature article of your project in the
local media (10 points)
- Maintain the school 4-H
Wildlife Stewards website and/or newspaper (10 points)
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