Learners will identify sources of air pollution, explain the greenhouse effect, and detail procedures for improving and maintaining air quality. 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: Homework/Assignment, Lesson Plan, Student Guide
This lesson presents an overview of Wildlife Management. Learners will identify characteristics of wildlife, relationships between wildlife, identify approved practices in wildlife management and research a wildlife animal. 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, Student Guide
This lesson plan was created by Jennifer Pritchett as part of the 2020 Nebraska CTE-Beginning Teachers Institute. The attached lesson plan is designed for students in grades 7-12 as a introduction to a service learning project. This lesson plan can also be used in classes such as Sociology, Introduction to Education, Ethics, Leadership, etc. Students will learn the meanings of values and rank their top 5 values in a hands on or virtual format. The culminating project is collaboration on a Google Slides presentation with the rest of the class.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson Plan, Teaching/Learning Strategy
This editable project and event planning worksheet asks questions clarifying purpose and intent, associated tasks, and responsible parties to create a successful outcome. This tool was developed for Nebraska FFA by Nebraska Department of Education and Nebraska Career Education in collaboration with SkillsUSA, developer of The POWERR formula learning resource.Cover photo by Glenn Carstens-Peters on Unsplash
Material Type: Activity/Lab
This is a resource guide for the FFA chapter advisor that wants to help their officers grow in their leadership ability, make their FFA chapter student led and student run, have a competent, capable chapter officer team every year, and be the Advisor of the chapter and not the person responsible for every aspect of the chapter's operation. Mpower is made possible through the generous support of Bayer CropScience as a special project of the National FFA Foundation.
Material Type: Unit of Study
In this activity, students will explore 12 different career development events through a station activity. The purpose of this activity is for students to explore different educational and personal growth opportunities within agricultural education / FFA.Students will have 5 minutes to complete 5 general knowledge questions and 5 questions as a part of a practicum activity. Contests included in this lesson include: Agriscience (2022 theme), Agronomy, Ag Sales, Ag Mech & Tech, Environmental & Natural Resources, Farm & Agribusiness Management, Floriculture, Food Science, Livestock Management, Meat Evaluation, Nursery Landsdape, Vet Science.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
Overview: Presented in five consecutive standard-period classes, students will think critically about an experience in their lives that have made a lasting, positive impact for which they are grateful. Students will write and hone rough drafts, give and solicit peer review and teacher critique, and develop a three-minute oral presentation of the final draft to their class. Lesson by Jarvis L. Reed.
Material Type: Homework/Assignment, Lesson Plan
Overview: A dozen Nebraska Ag teachers contribute to a thread asking about all aspects of successful livestock labs in other towns. They discuss town/city relationship and regulations, animals, enclosures, unforeseen successes and speed bumps, etc.
Material Type: Data Set
Find certificates, invitations, scripts and more for FFA Chapter Banquet.
Material Type: Data Set
This is a compilation of FFA Officer Election resources: applications, recommendation letter templates, interview questions, ballot, and contracts. Also included are notes and sample constitutions from chapters who have successfully restructured officers to President, Secretary, and multiple Vice Presidents, foregoing traditional role titles.
Material Type: Data Set
This collection of study guides presents thoughtful questions to accompany students’ viewing of popular feature films portraying characters’ struggles and triumphs. The fourteen films are: When the Game Stands Tall, The Rookie, Temple Grandin, Hoosiers, Secretariat, Soul Surfer, Radio, Remember the Titans, Rudy, Dreamer, October Sky, The Pistol – Birth of a Legend, Miracle on Ice, and Iron Will.
Material Type: Student Guide
This FFA Chapter Leadership Training document introduces the concept of bias awareness in a presentation prepared for the Omaha Bryan FFA chapter in the 2010s. Shown in the presentation are makeup of FFA students by race & ethnicity, approaching the topic with intent for all to grow in awareness and provide a more welcoming environment to anyone, student testimonials (names removed). Adapted from a presentation by Tyler Schindler and Taylor Wilton-Cooper, Omaha Bryan High School
Material Type: Reading
Rangelands are one of Nebraska’s most important and valuable natural resources: forage for livestock, habitat for wildlife, protection to soil from erosion, filters runoff water, and recharges groundwater. This unit will prepare students with a better understanding of rangeland ecosystems to prepare them for better management decision making. Unit by Kortni Burnett, Nebraska Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources Educator
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Assessment, Diagram/Illustration, Homework/Assignment, Lecture, Lecture Notes, Lesson Plan, Student Guide
The National FFA Convention is an exciting, multi-day event packed with competitions, tours, presentations, workshops, and gatherings. This is a compilation of documents to aid in planning and managing your chapter’s participation in the convention including samples of information letters to guardians, student applications, reflection, and student schedules.
Material Type: Student Guide
Overview of saturated fats, unsaturated fats, and trans fats.
Material Type: Lesson
How can you tell if harmful bacteria are in your food or water that might make you sick? What you eat or drink can be contaminated with bacteria, viruses, parasites and toxins—pathogens that can be harmful or even fatal. Students learn which contaminants have the greatest health risks and how they enter the food supply. While food supply contaminants can be identified from cultures grown in labs, bioengineers are creating technologies to make the detection of contaminated food quicker, easier and more effective.
Material Type: Lesson
In this introduction to biotechnology's use in agriculture, learners will discuss history of the topic, model the fermentation process, and extract DNA in a lab activity.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson Plan
This lesson presents an overview of the Food Science Industry. Learners will learn about proper nutrition, create informational flyers on food-borne pathogenic organisms, and create their very own food product label.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson Plan
This lesson presents an overview of the major food commodity groups, different operations, and careers within the food industry.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Homework/Assignment, Lecture Notes, Lesson Plan
This task was developed by high school and postsecondary mathematics and agriculture sciences educators, and validated by content experts in the Common Core State Standards in mathematics and the National Career Clusters Knowledge & Skills Statements. It was developed with the purpose of demonstrating how the Common Core and CTE Knowledge & Skills Statements can be integrated into classroom learning - and to provide classroom teachers with a truly authentic task for either mathematics or CTE courses.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson Plan
