Educator Resources

2024 Spring-Summer New Horizons Teaching Guide-Appendix 5- Wired for Growth

This North Clackamas FFA member developed a creative, high-tech solution to produce more feed for the campus farm.

2024 Spring-Summer New Horizons Teaching Guide-Appendix 6- Hands-On Education

Bristol County Agricultural High School students prepare for career success by learning to do and doing to learn every day.

2024 Spring-Summer New Horizons Teaching Guide-Appendix 7- Vocabulary Activity

Choose ten words from the list to create a short story. After completing the story, choose one vocabulary word to illustrate

Kristyn Bauer- Ag Education SAE

Through Kristyn Bauer’s SAE, she helps others experience chicken egg incubation and hatching.

Lane Drewery – Farm & Research Associate SAE

Learn about Lane Drewery’s agricultural research SAE. Explore what happens at the agricultural research company he works at and then discover the agricultural research sites in your own state from land-grant universities.

Mitch Hopkins – Fiber & Oil Crop Production SAE

Learn about Mitch Hopkins’s fiber and oil crop production SAE. Research a variety of topics focused on cotton by completing a choice board.

Trace Ward – Quail Management SAE

Learn about Trace Ward’s SAE in hatching and raising quail. Then, learn more about one of the five most common types of quail in the United States.

Caleb Wilkerson – Tractor Restoration SAE

Caleb Wilkerson’s SAE is tractor restoration. Students will watch a video on the process Caleb went through to restore a 1948 tractor and then will brainstorm and consider what items they could restore or repurpose in their own lives for a potential SAE.

Payden Criswell – Catawba Worm Farming SAE

Joe Lindberg – Minnow Trapping SAE

Follow Joe Lindberg as he explains his minnow trapping SAE. Then dive deep into the various aspects of the aquaculture and fishery industries and careers within those industries.

Nick Wulfekule – Outdoor Recreation SAE

Nick Wulfekuhle has used two different SAEs to continue to expand his knowledge and skills. Encourage your students to do the same with the activities in this lesson.

Kylie Skadberg- Meat Processing SAE

Meat processing is a unique SAE and career path. In this lesson, learn how Kylie Skadberg got started in her SAE. We will then learn what part of the animal different cuts of beef, pork and lamb come from. Finally, we will explore the everyday products we use that come from animal products.

Jackson Brossart- Fishing Lure SAE

Jackson Brossart’s SAE has taught him how to take a hobby and turn it into an SAE. Learn how you can take a hobby and turn it into an SAE and, ultimately, a future career.

Eric Moen- Wildlife Production and Management SAE

Eric Moen’s SAE combines his passions of wildlife, trapping and educating others. Learn more about how Eric uses dermestid beetles to clean wildlife skulls and educate students in his school.

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AgExplorer Video Activity

This is a general activity to be used with any of the videos in the AgExplorer video center.

The Agriculture Career Matchmaker

Introduce agriculture careers to students by giving them the role of a career matchmaker, making career recommendations based on a given profile. Students will also explore and define characteristics they are looking for in a future career.

Sense of Belonging Celebration Lesson

97th National FFA Convention Implementation Guide

2024 Fall-Winter New Horizons Teaching Guide

In this guide, you will find activities for six articles in the fall 2024 issue of FFA New Horizons. Worksheet answer keys can be found at the end of the activity worksheet. The activities are aligned to educational standards. (See each activity for the specific standards.)

2024 Fall-Winter New Horizons Teaching Guide-Appendix 1- Conversations Spark Community Change

Minnesota FFA members helped pass legislation to provide grant funding for after-school programming in their state.

2024 Fall-Winter New Horizons Teaching Guide-Appendix 2- On The Record: Gordie Gasch

This retired agricultural education teacher and FFA advisor participated in a monumental movement to make FFA a place for all.

2024 Fall-Winter New Horizons Teaching Guide-Appendix 3- Finding Focus in FFA

Lubbock-Cooper FFA alumni and twins Faith and Caleb Snapp refuse to let vision impairment limit their dreams.

2024 Fall-Winter New Horizons Teaching Guide-Appendix 4- Starting from Scratch

As a recently chartered chapter, Weeping Water FFA launched Limestone Coffee Co., a student-run business venture, to raise funds and help members gain valuable skills.

2024 Fall-Winter New Horizons Teaching Guide-Appendix 5- This SAE Popped Off

A kernel of an idea led this National Trail FFA member to a creative (and delicious!) supervised agricultural experience.