This site includes 55 videos demonstrating veterinary techniques, introducing veterinary equipment and materials, explaining animal body systems and organs, aiding animal identification, and more.
Material Type: Lecture
Students take notes and read articles about how life changed for humans because of the introduction of agriculture. Students play “MasterMind” using the dates of significant changes in agriculture and complete a worksheet while researching historical events that have impacted agriculture.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson Plan
Overview: This lesson is an exploration of dysfunctional team dynamics, and healthy traits of teams who overcome those negative influences. Over five standard class periods, students will review dysfunctions of a team, watch 45 minutes of the movie Miracle, review healthy functions of a team, watch the remainder of the movie, answer discussion questions, and write a summative essay. By Patrick Lencioni
Material Type: Homework/Assignment, Lesson Plan, Unit of Study
Students will identify nutrient deficiencies in crops to determine plant nutrient requirements for optimum growth. Lesson plan from the New Mexico Animal, Plant, and Soil Science Lesson Plan Library.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Assessment, Diagram/Illustration, Lecture Notes, Lesson Plan
Journey 2050 is a virtual farming app with interactive activities and hands-on lessons that students will use to explore important concepts like: The simple planting of a seed starts a RIPPLE EFFECT that helps farm families, communities, countries and the world. Agriculture is the foundation for life. SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE balances economic, social and environmental factors for long term success. To FEED THE WORLD in 2050, we will need to grow over 60% more food on the same amount of land. Journey 2050 was developed by teachers, industry experts and professional game developers. It takes 7 hours to complete the program developed by Nutrien.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Assessment, Homework/Assignment, Lecture
Students will utilize previously gained knowledge about the impact of land management practices on ecosystems to design, conduct and analyze an experiment to measure biodiversity and/or invertebrate ecosystem role in a field community. They will identify ecosystems that have been heavily and lightly impacted by human activities and make predictions about biodiversity in the area. They will then test and analyze the information gathered and apply what this means about the biodiversity in these ecosystems and the implications this may have on the region.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Assessment, Homework/Assignment
Students engage in hands-on, true-to-life research experiences on air quality topics chosen for personal interest through a unit composed of one lesson and five associated activities. Using a project-based learning approach suitable for secondary science classrooms and low-cost air quality monitors, students gain the background and skills needed to conduct their own air quality research projects. The curriculum provides: 1) an introduction to air quality science, 2) data collection practice, 3) data analysis practice, 4) help planning and conducting a research project and 5) guidance in interpreting data and presenting research in professional poster format. The comprehensive curriculum requires no pre-requisite knowledge of air quality science or engineering. This curriculum takes advantage of low-cost, next-generation, open-source air quality monitors called Pods. These monitors were developed in a mechanical engineering lab at the University of Colorado Boulder and are used for academic research as well as education and outreach. The monitors are made available for use with this curriculum through AQ-IQ Kits that may be rented from the university by teachers. Alternatively, nearly the entire unit, including the student-directed projects, could also be completed without an air quality monitor. For example, students can design research projects that utilize existing air quality data instead of collecting their own, which is highly feasible since much data is publically available. In addition, other low-cost monitors could be used instead of the Pods. Also, the curriculum is intentionally flexible, so that the lesson and its activities can be used individually. See the Other section for details about the Pods and ideas for alternative equipment, usage without air quality monitors, and adjustments to individually teach the lesson and activities.
Material Type: Unit of Study
This series of lessons includes lectures and activities to demonstrate judging the condition of soil for a given area of land, the qualities of that soil, and identifying management actions to correct the condition if needed.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Homework/Assignment, Lecture Notes, Lesson Plan
Show students what forestry and woodland management looks like with this collection of images providing extensive visual examples of regeneration practices, nursery operations, intermediate treatments, and forest products.
Material Type: Diagram/Illustration
Just as humans, wildlife have needs. Wildlife needs a place to live, food and water to eat and drink, and a specific environment. Today, you will be learning about a new wildlife species, where they live, and what they need to survive. You will have five different spots on your Wildlife Habitat Amazing Race. At each spot you will have a task to complete to make a complete wildlife habitat.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
Just as humans, wildlife have needs. Wildlife needs a place to live, food and water to eat and drink, and a specific environment. Today, you will be learning about a new wildlife species, where they live, and what they need to survive. You will have five different spots on your Wildlife Habitat Amazing Race. At each spot you will have a task to complete to make a complete wildlife habitat.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
In this seven-day lesson, students learn the importance of scoring whitetail antlers, demonstrate the scoring process, and compete in an antler-constructing contest.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Assessment, Interactive, Lesson Plan
The students will dissect an owl pellet by removing the bones. They will use the bones to reconstruct the skeletons to help them determine what animals the owl has eaten. The class will compile their results and use their findings to help them construct a food web for the owl.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
The students will simulate different methods used to treat the Eastern Red Cedar, using the Prairie Protector Game.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
The students will analyze the plant composition of four different one meter squares. They will record the number of grasses, forbs/legumes and woody plants in each square. They will also make a list of each species of grasses, forbs/legumes, and woody plants, and determine if the species is native or non-native. If they find a plant they do not know, use the PlantsSnap Plant Identification app.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
This lesson introduces students to the parts of fish (both internal and external), covers adaptations of fish, and assesses student's understanding of the parts of fish.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Assessment, Homework/Assignment, Lesson, Lesson Plan
In this four-day lesson, students will learn the importance of aging whitetail deer, demonstrate the aging process, and complete a lab activity in which assesses their deer aging ability.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Assessment, Homework/Assignment, Lesson, Lesson Plan
This seven-day lesson covers the ins and outs of Nebraska wildlife mammals. During the lesson, students explore wildlife mammals, learn extensive information about each mammal, and are evaluated on their ability to identify each mammal by pelt/hide. The list of wildlife mammals is based on the species identification component of the Nebraska FFA Environmental & Natural Resources competition.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Assessment, Homework/Assignment, Lesson, Lesson Plan
With an understanding of plant anatomy and physiology, students will be able to problem solve to identify plants they see daily. This lesson will walk students through plant physiology and provide some activities that will help students learn the plant structures. Developed by Brent Nollette,
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Diagram/Illustration, Lesson Plan
Students will examine the carbon cycle and examine how cattle grazing grasslands can improve and impact ecological succession. The Sandhills of Nebraska represent the largest sand dune formations in the Western Hemisphere and one of the largest grass-stabilized dune formations in the world. There are approximately 670 native plant species that cover the Sandhills and over 500,000 beef cows call this place home. By Brent Nollette
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Assessment, Diagram/Illustration, Lecture, Lesson Plan
