Bring your students to a sale barn auction inside your classroom! Whether the sale barn is in your town or an hour away, this lesson can help students think like a cattle feeder - using math to determine how to bid and when they should bid on cattle that are at the sale barn.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Assessment, Interactive, Lesson Plan, Simulation
In this lesson, students will taste soymilk and make a smoothie from soymilk with additives. They will observe how soymilk is made as well as discuss the definition of milk.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
In this lesson, students will estimate the yield of soybeans. With that yield, they will determine what food products or other products can be made from one acre of soybeans.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
After reviewing the many products that can be made from corn and soybeans, students will create biodegradable plastic using corn and soybean ingredients. These ingredients are as simple as cornstarch and vegetable (soybean) oil! Source: https://grownextgen.org/media/pages/curriculum/meet-the-bean/fun-and-games-with-soybeans/7e281dd28b-1565628888/biodegradable-soy-plastic.pdf
Material Type: Activity/Lab
Students will compare and contrast different types of feed milling. Students will demonstrate different types of feed milling by using cereal.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
Food product development can include many different parts and ideas. In this lesson, students will create and market a kind of popcorn.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
Can your students identify food aromas? In this lesson, students will have an opportunity to sniff and identify up to 32 aromas. This is part of the Food Science CDE in FFA as well!
Material Type: Activity/Lab
From the Laurentian Outdoor Survival curriculum, this can be a multiple day lesson for Natural Resources or Wildlife Management class. Students discuss ways to survive and signals to be rescued.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Student Guide, Unit of Study
A large part of CDEs is identification. In this lesson, students help make the quiz slides and then have a weekly quiz on plants. This can be used for animal breeds, veterinary science tools and parasites as well!
Material Type: Assessment
This course is designed to strengthen students' personal and group leadership skills. Topics such as public speaking, effective communication, human relations, parliamentary law, and group dynamics are covered. Also covered is the development of Programs of Activity, and Service-Learning projects, including student development, chapter development, and community development. ** References to Common Core Standards are included as the first slide in each lesson's PowerPoint**
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Assessment, Lesson Plan
Students will spend weeks observing seeds prepared for germination in five ways: control (no prep), sulphuric acid soak, hot water soak, filing/sanding seed coat, and cracking seed coat with a blow from a hammer. By Aaron Magnuson, Branson High School
Material Type: Activity/Lab
This lesson presents an overview of Natural Resources. Learners then complete a poster identifying and classifying Natural Resources. This represents a portion of the Introduction to Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources (AFNR) series in Nebraska middle and high school agricultural education.
Material Type: Assessment, Homework/Assignment, Lecture, Lesson Plan
Students choose one of sixteen agriculture- or FFA-related learning activities from the grid for use during a day when the regular classroom teacher is absent.
Material Type: Assessment, Homework/Assignment
Students will write a daily response to an agriculture news story and make connections to thier community and predict the impact of the event on the agriculture industry. Reading current agriculture news will help students be more informed consumers while also helping them to connect content learned in agriculture class to real-world events and applications. Written by Taryn Dameron.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
Students will summarize an article on an agricultural topic and reflect on what surprised or interested them, and name other keywords/topics for future research they found in the article.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
Assigning students particular roles can be an effective way to organize groups and simulate job site communication. Assigning a ‘foreman’ for groups in an agriculture education classroom helps to distribute responsibility among group members and ensures accountability for all students’ participation. As students practice assuming greater responsibility, they can develop new skills. Designed by Donald Fowler.
Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy
