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Agriscience Exploration and Orientation
This course is intended as an eighth grade offering that focuses on developing student awareness and providing opportunities for students to assess their interests as related to agricultural education. Much of the content focuses on the seven pathways available to students who enroll in high school agricultural education courses. Content also includes the meaning and role of agricultural education, the importance and nature of the agricultural industry, the role of food production and processing, relationships of agriculture to natural resources and the environment, and the strong undergirding of science in the study of agriculture. Personal development, FFA, and supervised experience will also be initiated.
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Kurt Murray
(405) 743-5489
kmurr@okcareertech.org
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Unit AEO1: The agricultural industry (9 hours)
Benchmark AEO1-1: Students will discuss the meaning, history, and importance of the agricultural industry, including production agriculture and agribusiness.
Benchmark AEO1-2: Students will explain the nature of agricultural explorations and orientation.
Benchmark AEO1-3: Students will list and discuss the seven career pathways of agriculture study.
Benchmark AEO1-4: Students will identify careers in the pathways of agriculture study and describe the nature of the work and educational needs for career entry.
Unit AEO2: Agricultural education (5 hours)
Benchmark AEO2-1: Students will explain the purpose of agricultural education.
Benchmark AEO2-2: Students will name and describe the components of agricultural education: instruction, supervised experience, and FFA.
Benchmark AEO2-3: Students will discuss the courses, facilities, and unique features of the local agricultural education program.
Unit AEO3: Agriculture and natural resources (16 hours)
Benchmark AEO3-1: Students will discuss the role of the agricultural industry in meeting human needs for food, clothing, and shelter.
Benchmark AEO3-2: Students will list major historical events that have changed how food and other agricultural products are produced.
Benchmark AEO3-3: Students will describe the importance of agriculture in Oklahoma, the United States, and the world.
Benchmark AEO3-4: Students will explain the importance and kinds of natural resources.
Benchmark AEO3-5: Students will discuss relationships between agriculture and natural resources.
Unit AEO4: Safety in agriculture (9 hours)
Benchmark AEO4-1: Students will explain the meaning of safety and list general safety rules.
Benchmark AEO4-2: Students will discuss the meaning of hazard and name where hazards are found in agriculture, including the school laboratory facilities.
Benchmark AEO4-3: Students will identify common personal protective equipment (ppe) and demonstrate how it is used to promote safety.
Benchmark AEO4-4: Students will discuss the importance of safety in agricultural occupations
Unit AEO5: Production agriculture (13 hours)
Benchmark AEO5-1: Students will name production agriculture enterprises in Oklahoma and discuss the scope of each.
Benchmark AEO5-2: Students will identify major animal species and discuss production characteristics.
Benchmark AEO5-3: Students will identify major crop species and discuss production practices.
Benchmark AEO5-4: Students will explain the meaning and role of agricultural mechanization in production agriculture.
Unit AEO6: Food and fiber products (15 hours)
Benchmark AEO6-1: Students will name important food products and classify each as to animal or plant origin.
Benchmark AEO6-2: Students will discuss steps in marketing various food products from the farm to the consumer.
Benchmark AEO6-3: Students will identify ways food is processed and preserved.
Benchmark AEO6-4: Students will explain the meaning of food safety and name ways food may become unsafe.
Benchmark AEO6-5: Students will name important fiber products and classify each as to origin.
Benchmark AEO6-6: Students will explain procedures in marketing fiber products from the farm to the consumer.
Benchmark AEO6-7: Students will name agencies and organizations that oversee food and fiber marketing and discuss the roles of each.
Unit AEO7: Life goals (9 hours)
Benchmark AEO7-1: Students will define goal and discuss the importance of goal setting.
Benchmark AEO7-2: Students will write their personal goals in education and career.
Benchmark AEO7-3: Students will write ways and means for achieving their goals.
Benchmark AEO7-4: Students will discuss the meaning and importance of developing a positive self-concept.
Unit AEO8: Supervised experience (7 hours)
Benchmark AEO8-1: Students will discuss the meaning and importance of supervised experience.
Benchmark AEO8-2: Students will name the kinds of supervised experience and discuss the meaning of each, with emphasis on exploratory supervised experience.
Benchmark AEO8-3: Students will prepare a supervised experience training plan.
Benchmark AEO8-4: Students will discuss the importance of records and keep appropriate records of their supervised experience.
Benchmark AEO8-5: Students will use mathematics calculations in planning and assessing supervised experience.
Unit AEO9: FFA (9 hours)
Benchmark AEO9-1: Students will explain the purposes of the FFA and its role in agricultural education.
Benchmark AEO9-2: Students will list and discuss the benefits of FFA membership.
Benchmark AEO9-3: Students will explain organization of the local FFA chapter, including officers and advisor.
Benchmark AEO9-4: Students will identify opportunities for participation and advancement in the FFA.
Benchmark AEO9-5: Students will name examples of Career Development Events.
Unit AEO10: Science and technology in agriculture (16 hours)
Benchmark AEO10-1: Students will explain how science is related to agriculture.
Benchmark AEO10-2: Students will discuss life and physical science applications in agriculture and explore examples.
Benchmark AEO10-3: Students will discuss the importance of mathematics in agriculture and perform sample agricultural calculations.
Benchmark AEO10-4: Students will identify applications of technology in agriculture, including those used in precision agriculture.
Unit AEO11: Agricultural mechanics (12 hours)
Benchmark AEO11-1: Students will describe the meaning and scope of agricultural mechanics.
Benchmark AEO11-2: Students will identify the major power tools and equipment in an agricultural mechanics laboratory.
Benchmark AEO11-3: Students will name common hand tools and explain their use.
Benchmark AEO11-4: Students will use measuring devices to determine the dimensions of wood products.
Benchmark AEO11-5: Students will use mathematical formulas to perform various agricultural mechanics calculations such as area, volume, and cost.
Agricultural Education I: Core – CTTC
http://www.okcareertech.org/testing/Skills%20Standards/Agriculture_Career_Cluster.htmAgricultural Education I: Core – CTTC
http://www.okcareertech.org/testing/Skills%20Standards/Agriculture_Career_Cluster.htmEighth Grade Agricultural Careers Orientation – CIMC
FFA: Learn, Grow, Become—CIMC
Forestry, Soils and FFA ALA - CIMC
Middle School Agriscience Lesson Plan Library CD-ROM, Center for Agricultural and Environmental Research and Training (CAERT) 2007
Agriscience Lesson Plan Library CD-ROM
Agriscience Dictionary with searchable CD-ROM, Nerren and Donahue; Delmar Publishing – 2000
Agriscience Explorations, 3rd Edition, Morgan, Lee, Wilson; Prentice Hall Interstate – 2004