Animal Systems

"Raising the Steaks" is a National FFA lesson plan in which students learn about beef production and marketing by exploring a real student's beef entrepreneurship supervised agricultural experience…

"Wild About Animals" is a National FFA Organization lesson plan that introduces students to the exotic animal industry through an animal systems supervised agricultural experience (SAE) profiled in a…

"From Farm to Freezer" is a National FFA lesson plan in which students explore poultry processing and food science by following a real student's supervised agricultural experience (SAE) at a poultry…

Students will leap into the world of raising and showing livestock by learning about a sheep focused ownership/entrepreneurship SAE and explore options for their own version of one FFA member's project.

In this lesson, students will explore how an FFA chapter turned a dairy goat SAE into a successful school-based enterprise by processing and selling by-products from their goats.

Lucy Barney shares the inspiration behind her passion for horses and the daily routines that shaped her award-winning FFA project.

In this guide, you will find activities for eight articles in the fall/winter 2025 issue of FFA New Horizons. Worksheet answer keys can be found at the document. The activities are aligned to educational standards. (See each activity for the specific standards.)

National FFA and SAE for All provide free educator resources for teachers. This document will provide a comprehensive list National FFA educator resources and how they align with each component of a foundational SAE.

Explore these five pathways to see what your future could look like — and how FFA can help you get there.

If you’re planning to start, expand or switch up your supervised agricultural experience (SAE) this year, draw inspiration from these creative FFA members and alums, highlighted by the 2024-25 FFA in the USA reporters.