Agricultural Education Archives

Agribility-Cultivating Accessible Agriculture

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.

By Larry Downes|2018-08-13T16:00:24-04:00August 13th, 2018|

SAE Video Choice Boards

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.

By Larry Downes|2018-08-22T16:23:17-04:00August 13th, 2018|

Bell Ringers for the Agricultural Science 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.).

By Larry Downes|2022-09-06T15:41:05-04:00August 13th, 2018|

SAE Idea Cards

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.

By Larry Downes|2018-08-23T15:50:28-04:00August 13th, 2018|

Student Handbook

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.

By Larry Downes|2018-09-12T07:22:21-04:00August 13th, 2018|

Middle School Food and Agricultural Literacy Curriculum

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.

By Larry Downes|2018-09-11T16:13:40-04:00August 13th, 2018|

SAE Idea Cards-Agricultural Communication and Education

SAE Idea Cards

By Larry Downes|2018-08-13T16:08:26-04:00August 13th, 2018|