Agribusiness Systems

Food and Agricultural Literacy Curriculum-Explore what Confucius meant when he said, ?Find a job that you love and you?ll never work a day in your life? in this unit consisting of 11 lessons. Through independent research students will learn about the eight pathways of the Agriculture, Food and Natural Resource (AFNR) career cluster and learn how to turn passion into profit.

Financial planning and management lesson plans and PowerPoints designed to teach aboutÿgoal setting, budgeting, cash flow, credit ratings, loans, interest, investments, taxes and insurance.

People with disabilities rely on assistive technology. Various tools, machinery, and other devices can provide vital assistance with work, mobility, and many other aspects of life. AgrAbility recognizes the immense potential for rural youth to excel individually and contribute to their communities. Teach your students about assistive technology. In addition to increasing awareness, it may have direct impact for them, their families, or others in their communities.

Twelve lessons were developed to assist educators in teaching entrepreneurial concepts. The lesson plans are available below and include all handouts needed for the classroom. The lessons have been developed incorporating National Standards and can be used singularly or as a complete educational experience.

This document serves as a resource to incorporate SAE videos into the classroom. These videos allow students to learn about and develop/enhance their SAE projects. There are a series of choice boards available:six-week, nine-week,by quarter,first-half of the semester and second-half of the semester. Choose the format that best suits your classroom.

This document serves as a resource to agricultural educators and advisors to incorporate quick ways in which to engage students at the beginning of each scheduled time block (i.e. class, FFA meetings, etc.).

The purpose of the SAE Idea Cards is to assist students with coming up with ideas for SAEs. There are 360 SAE ideas in nine different focus areas that can be downloaded or used online. Each career area provides ideas for all six SAE types, which are Entrepreneurship/Ownership, Placement, Research, School-Based Enterprise, Service-Learning and Exploratory.

This resource is a companion to the Official FFA Student Handbook (16th Edition) released in 2017. It provides information to facilitate student learning of FFA material and involvement opportunities. Features of the resource include:

-Designed to make efficient use of classroom time and engage students at a high level. -Contains lesson plans, PowerPoints, activities, worksheets, questions, vocabulary and discussion topics. -Everything you need to teach new students about FFA. -Lesson plans that help cover the highlights of FFA.

This middle school curriculum includes more than 150 free lesson plans-that's a year's worth of introductory agriculture content bundled into one location. These lessons are great for building your students' agricultural literacy and awareness and their appreciation for it.

SAE Idea Cards

This series of four lesson plans were crafted as a resource for educators to use with students to develop a solid foundation around concepts and resources related to proper risk management, including; information about how to use the Risk Management Agency?s website, how to assess risk using a SWOT analysis, as well as how to develop marketing and business plans.