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4-H Materials and Resources in Spanish
Compiled by Ev Simmons Updated 4/05


4-H (Penn State)

Marketing 4-H:

  • S8004S - Letter to 4-H Parents
  • S8010S - Take a Look at Us Now Brochure

4-H Materials:

  • B0980AS - 4-H Plant Fun
  • J0535AS - On My Own and Okay - Youth
  • J0535BS - On My Own and Okay - Parents
  • J0535CS - On My Own and Okay - Leader's Guide

Resources:

  • S2010S - Children and Youth - Their Growth and Development
  • 101S - EFNEP youth materials order number - Food Planner (Spanish)

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4-H (Other Sources)

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Family Living

  • Penn State Cooperative Extension Lebanon County - English/Spanish Family Living Resources, including: Busy Families at Mealtime, Family Talk, Healthy Food Can Be Fun, Good Eating Habits, Facts About Raising Children, and Nine Practical Points for Parents: http://lebanon.extension.psu.edu/Family/SpanishFamily.htm.
  • Food & Nutrition Information Center - Resource List of Current Food and Nutrition Audiovisuals - Hispanic & Spanish Language Resources: http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/pubs/bibs/gen/video01.html#Hispanic.
  • American Dietetic Association - Health Habits for Healthy Kids booklet: http://wellpoint.com/healthy_parenting/index_es.html.
  • USDA Food Safety & Inspection Service - Thermy for Food Service, downloadable and ordering information, including some Spanish items: http://www.fsis.usda.gov/News_&_Events/Thermy_Image_Library/index.asp#foodservice.
  • Food Guide Pyramid for Latinos of Mexican descent. Piramide del dia con el sabor popular mexicano: Guia para la leccion/A Food Guide Pyramid with a Mexican Flavor Lesson Plan. Helzer J., Kaiser L. and Lopez M. Publication 3390 1999. Piramide del dia con el sabor popular mexicano/A Food Guide Pyramid with a Mexican Flavor (poster 21566 and video V97-B) Lopez M. 1997. For purchasing information contact the University of California Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources Communications Service: 1-800-994-8849, E-mail: danrcs@ucdavis.edu.
  • Information available in English, Spanish, Chinese, Vietnamese, Laotian, Khmer (Cambodian), and Russian. Single copy free; multiple copies on a sliding scale. For purchasing information contact Lorraine Matthers: 215-685-5263, E-mail: lorraine.matthews@phila.gov.
    • "Healthy Snack Shopping List" (50 sheets per pad)
    • "I Love Healthy (Yummy) Snacks!" (poster)
    • "Lead Poisoning Prevention Cookbook" (1999)
    • "Let's Get Moving with Healthy Snacks and Play" (brochure and poster, 1999)
    • "Some Questions and Answers About Food" (50 sheets per pad)
  • Penn State Cooperative Extension Franklin County - Nutrition Links Newsletters: http://franklin.extension.psu.edu/Nutrition/NutritionNewsletter.htm#Spanish.
  • US Food & Drug Administration, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nurtition - Fact sheets: http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~mow/sinterna.html.
  • Penn State Cooperative Extension, Better Kid Care Program - Parents Count: http://www.betterkidcare.psu.edu/page10b.html.
  • Penn State NIRC - Search for Spanish; will find links to additional resources, resources to borrow, and downloadable materials like:
    • Combata a BAC! (Spanish) (1998)
      • Partnership for Food Safety Education brochure (in Spanish), describing four tools to fight bacteria: washing hands and surfaces often, avoiding cross-contamination, cooking to proper temperatures, and refrigerating promptly. Spanish-language, full-color flyer. It is a visually appealing, basic introduction to the Food Guide Pyramid. This guide covers prevention principles in children and adolescents, risk and protective factors, preventing drug abuse in the community, and drug abuse prevention programs. Provided are four guides to sports nutrition for high school athletes: Don't Let Your Diet Let You Down, The Pregame Meal Planner, Keeping Energy Levels Up, and Keeping Fluid Levels Up.
    • Washington State Dairy Council - 1-800-470-1222
      • Pyramid Sticker Activity Master, Teaches the Food Guide Pyramid, serving sizes, and includes a diet history and nutrition quiz - Item #DC32M, $.25 each.
      • Pyramid Stickers - Item #DC32, $3.00/pkg of 100 stickers.
      • Growing Up Healthy, Colorful brochure offers parents practical tips for healthy eating for toddlers 18 months to 3 years - Item #DC525, $.20 each.
    • NEAT Solutions - 1-888-577-6328
      • Five Senses, Expressive real life children and their cartoon character friends. Illustrate the five senses, 27” x 34” display poster - Item #T-8012, $8.99.
      • Mis Cinco Sentidos (My Five Senses), Sight, smell, taste, hearing, and touch – our senses teach us about our world. Soft cover, 32 pages, for ages 3-6 - Item #HC-4450SP, $5.95.
      • The Magic School Bus Explains the Human Body, 40-page, soft cover, story book for ages 4-8 - Item #SB-0258SP, $3.50.
      • Hola, Doctor (Hello Doctor), Rookie Reader Level A story of a young boy’s trip to the doctor - Item #Cp-7092, $4.95.
  • Penn State Food Safety - Information on "Control of Listeria Monocytogenes in Small Meat and Poultry Establishments," video and booklet: http://foodsafety.cas.psu.edu/listeria_video.html.

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Home

  • Penn State University, College of Ag Sciences Publications: http://pubs.cas.psu.edu:
    • UI321 or http://pubs.cas.psu.edu/freepubs/pdfs/ui321.pdf - Debugging Your Home
    • UI291 Household Hazardous Waste: Paint—Spanish Version (1993)
    • UI292 Household Hazardous Waste: Car Care Items—Spanish Version (1993)
    • UI293 Household Hazardous Waste: Household Cleaners—Spanish Version (1993)
    • UI294 Household Hazardous Waste: What Is Household Hazardous Waste?—Spanish Version (1993)
    • UI320 Alternative Household Cleaning Solutions—Spanish Version (1995)
    • UI301 The Fudge-It Budget—Spanish Version (1994)
    • UI307 Managing Resources: Cleaning Your Gas Stove—Spanish Version (1995)
    • UI308 Managing Resources: Cleaning Your Refrigerator—Spanish Version (1995)
    • UI309 Managing Resources: Cleaning the Bathroom—Spanish Version (1995)
    • UI310 Managing Resources: Cleaning Your Electric Stove—Spanish Version (1995)
    • UI311 Managing Resources: Cleaning Dishes—Spanish Version (1995)
    • UI318 Managing Resources: Rent-to-Own Shopping—Spanish Version (1995)

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Other Curricula

  • Extension en Espanol - Uncovering Local Assets, the Foundation for Building Stronger Communities, PowerPoint: http://extensionenespanol.net/pubinfo.cfm?pubid=166.
  • Penn State Cooperative Extension Lebanon County - Links to English/Spanish Emergency Preparedness Resources: http://lebanon.extension.psu.edu/Community/SpanishDisPrep.htm:
    • UI312 - Sharing a Home with the Elderly (Spanish version, 1994)
    • UI313 - How a Mature Adult Helps His Aging Parents (Spanish version, 1994)
    • UI314 - How to Keep Young at Any Age (Spanish version, 1994)
    • UI315 - In-Home Care of Persons Suffering from Intellectual Loss, Dementia, or Alzheimer's Disease (Spanish version, 1994)
    • UI316 - Alcoholism in the Elderly (Spanish version, 1994)

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Links

  • Alabama Cooperative Extension System - has over 400 research-based publications in Spanish and a list of topics and titles in English with links to the Spanish text publications and Web sites. Topics include: Children & Youth, Civil Rights & Affirmative Action, Consumer Affairs, Family Affairs, Housing, Nutrition & Health, Urban Agriculture, Non-traditional Agriculture, and Pets. These publications have been reviewed for cultural appropriateness, accurateness of translation, and importance to the Hispanic population. Links to more than 1,300 research-based publications in Spanish, and a link to an English-friendly version of the site (English titles of the Spanish text publications): http://www.aces.edu/urban/spanishindex.html.
  • CYFERnet - Search over 150 Spanish language resources: http://www.cyfernet.org/.
  • Penn State Cooperative Extension - Links to Spanish publications from California, Texas, Oregon, Florida, Wisconsin and Penn State Cooperative Extension, from Patreese Ingram, Associate Professor, Agricultural and Extension Education Department: http://agexted.cas.psu.edu/FCS/pi/OnLineDiversityResources.html#Spanish.
  • Leading Object Media and Cooperative Extension Service, New Mexico State University - For sale and free resources: Videos, Software, Web Sites, Educational, some in Spanish: http://www.leadingobject.com.
  • Healthfinder - Your guide to reliable health information: http://www.healthfinder.gov/espanol/.
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