Record Book Materials
The purpose of 4-H recordkeeping is to teach how to keep records, an important life skill. Recordkeeping is an ongoing process. Keeping records is a great way to document your participation in the 4-H program. You will be able to refer to your information when you apply for 4-H awards, scholarships, and more.
Objectives of keeping records
- To learn how to set goals, how to make plans for action, and how to decide how well you did (evaluation).
- To learn the skills of record keeping and organization to use now and in the future.
- To learn to communicate and summarize.
- To learn responsibility by completing a task.
- To evaluate information that will market personal skills through future resumes and application forms.
Available Forms
Additional items you may include in your records: your fair exhibit write-up, pictures, news clippings, certificates, etc., as they tell the story of your experience in the project area. You may record ribbon placings received for exhibition; however the actual ribbon should be stored in a separate location from your 4-H records.
Tips for keeping records
- Working on your records throughout the year is helpful.
- Records are required for most 4-H award applications.
- You can have records for projects that did not have an exhibit for the fair. Projects are what you enroll in and work on throughout the current 4-H year, while exhibits are one piece of a project that you choose to prepare and take to the county fair.
Example: Project – Food and Nutrition (help prepare meals, help grocery shop, set table, make cookies for bake sale, made chocolate chip cookies for fair exhibit, etc.) Exhibit – Chocolate chip cookies (made to be judged and on display during fair)
Ways to save your records:
- In a tabbed 3 ring binder
- Labeled hanging files
- Files in a computer
- Other ideas
Record Keeping Forms
- General Record Keeping Forms
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- Achieving Goals Help Guide
- Order of Record Book - updated for 2020
- Form Stating What Awards You Are Applying For - NEW and REQUIRED for 2020
- Marshall County Participation Summary
- Marshall County 4H Project Record Book Form updated for 2020
- Bronze Award Evaluation
- Silver Award Evaluation
- Gold Award Evaluation
- Emerald Award Evaluation
- Record Book Template (Excel file)
- List of Awards Received (updated Sept 2021)
- Clover Kids
- Other Recordbook Information
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- Friend of 4-H Award Application
- Project Awarded list by 4-H Member from 2019 4-H Year-updated 12-5-19
- Beef, Meat Goat, Sheep, Swine:
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- Market Animals
- Record Worksheet 4H-228JR
- Project Worksheet 4H-228WS
- Breeding Animals
- Record Worksheet 4H-229JR
- Project Worksheet 4H-229WS
- Dairy/Dairy Goat
- 4H 393 WS Dairy Animal Lifetime Record
- 4H 393A WS Dairy Goat Lifetime Record
- Market Animals
- Horse & Pony
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- 4H 512WS Horse/Pony Worksheet
- Pets
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- See general project form above
- Poultry
- Rabbit