agribusiness

When I Grow Up-Discover Ag Careers is a resource developed by American Farm Bureau Ferderation. Use this resoruce to explore careers in agriculture, food and natural resources with students in grades 6-8.

Food and Agricultural Literacy Curriculum

Food and Agricultural Literacy Curriculum

Food and Agricultural Literacy Curriculum-Unit Objective: Explore the 8 pathways of the Agriculture, Food and Natural Resource (AFNR) career clusters.

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.

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.

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

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.

SAE Idea Cards