The final two steps provide activities or questions for youth to help summarize what they have experienced. It enables them to generalize what they have learned to other examples and situations. Develop questions that will ask the students how the experience related to their own lives. Youth connect the subject matter and life skill discussion to the larger world. Develop questions that ask the students how they could apply what they learned to a similar or different situation.
Youth use the new subject matter and life skill experiences in other parts of their lives.
Asking open-ended questions along the way helps challenge youth to think. This also provides opportunities to evaluate their experience and progress. You will notice, that many of these questions are developed for you in the 4-H Science Discovery Series. However, you may develop others based on your group's interests, or the reasons for which you are using the lesson. Written by Keith G. Diem, Ph.D., Educational Design Specialist, Rutgers Cooperative Extension, based on national and NJ 4-H curriculum guidelines.