Gauge your students’ skills and teach them new ones in this fun, introductory woodworking project using found pallet lumber. Valuable for assessing what skills students have, do not have, and how hard students work (tearing apart pallets), while providing planters that can be sold as a fundraiser. Written by Boyd Bowder.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
FlowerSchool is a free video library produced by Floral Design Institute. Education Director Leanne Kesler AIFD demonstrates several innovative floral designs in an easy to learn, step-by-step method.
Material Type: Lecture
This lesson explores the swine industry: locating major physical characteristics, describing common breeds, selection of superior animals, and contrasting production systems and marketing methods of swine and hogs. Adapted from New Mexico Animal, Plant, and Science Lesson Plan Library.
Material Type: Assessment, Diagram/Illustration, Lecture Notes, Lesson Plan
Students determine the necessity of water on plant survival and growth, consider varying needs for water throughout a plant’s growing season, and describe what happens to the plant when water is plentiful and when water is scarce. Lesson plan and activity from Nebraska CASE Soybean Curriculum.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson Plan
Students will explore the steps in conducting scientific investigation in Agriculture and discuss safety precautions that should be followed in conducting agricultural research. 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
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
This lesson plan and complimentary resources describes and classifies common pests, favorable conditions for pests, and the way pests affect plants and cause losses. Students will explain Integrated Pest Management and methods used to control plant pests. 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
This lesson plan explores many ways animals help and support people including providing food, clothing, companionship, and service, as well as secondary benefits like soil conservation and fertility, and stabilizing farm businesses with diversification of risk. Lesson plan from the New Mexico Animal, Plant, and Soil Science Lesson Plan Library.
Material Type: Assessment, Diagram/Illustration, Lecture Notes, Lesson Plan
This lesson plan explores the difference between good and poor quality feedstuffs by learning the functions of feed, identifying feed types and characteristics, and identifying how animals are fed. Lesson plan from the New Mexico Animal, Plant, and Soil Science Lesson Plan Library.
Material Type: Assessment, Diagram/Illustration, 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
This presentation is an introductory lesson on integration of crop-livestock systems in the United States. The lesson includes national Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources Standards, objectives, and a student project. This lesson is intended to be inquiry-based, and as such only foundational information is presented. Students are expected to take the introductory information and find specific information needed to solve the problem posed at the beginning of the presentation. It is expected that at a minimum this lesson will take three 50-minute class periods and could take longer based on teacher preferences.
Material Type: Homework/Assignment, Lecture Notes
