natural resources

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-This unit, consisting of 28 lessons, plants the seed of discovery by giving an overview of agriculture. Watch your students grow into confident speakers, team builders, and learners as they examine their perceptions of agriculture, their role as consumers and stewards and the science behind it all.

Food and Agricultural Literacy Curriculum-Help your students fine tune their awareness about the issues that impact agriculture. In 18 lessons you?ll explore the instruments that can cause unnecessary frenzy. From exploring the role of the media to the effects of the economy, your students will orchestrate the know-how to become informed advocates for agriculture.

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.

The Drinking Water: Protecting the Source instructional materials will assist teachers who seek to enhance the consciousness of their students about where their drinking water comes from and how sources of drinking water can be protected. The teaching materials are designed to supplement existing instruction in agriculture, food and natural resources courses. The instructional materials are related to water characteristics and contaminants, water regulations, drainage, and reducing the flow of nutrients into groundwater and surface water

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 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