SAE lesson

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.

Students will explore the benefits of therapeutic gardening by learning about one FFA member's service learning SAE and how they could create their own version.

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.

Lily Carriker’s SAE involves the website she created for a local agribusiness in her community. Students will watch a video on Lily’s agricultural communications SAE, spend time exploring different websites and think about how they would design their own websites.

It is never too early for students to start learning about how their interests and skills can lead to a future career. At Mount Pleasant Middle School in North Carolina, every student has an SAE that aligns with their interests and helps them prepare for their futures. Students will watch a video about middle school SAEs and complete a scavenger hunt using the SAE Idea Cards.

A choice board you can leave for students when you have a substitute teacher in the classroom. All activities are related to SAEs.

This guide includes different one-, three-, and five-day options for curated and cohesive activities to leave for students when you need to be away from your classroom for a varying number of days. The theme of this guide is SAE and all selected activities are related to learning more about and planning for SAEs.

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.

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

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.

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

This fruit production SAE introduces students to the basics of cultivating and managing fruit crops.