What are the potential uses of soybeans after they have been processed? In this lesson, students will learn about the composition of an average soybean seed and then use soy wax flakes to make their own lip balm. 

Designing livestock facilities involves a lot of knowledge, research, and infering about the animals behaviors as well as human behaviors. In this lesson, students will receive a scenario of livestock that they are not familiar with and using their knowledge as well as research will design and build a model of their facilities.

Students will analyze animals against a standard ideal, and explain the relationship between an animal’s form and function.

Students will be able to use correct terminology for livestock (e.g. bovine, steer, ewe, ram). This lesson is used in exploring agriculture, animal science lesson.  Written by Kathryn Savat.

Resources on local food production, including fruit and vegetable production strategies, pest management, marketing, food safety, horticulture budgets, and regulations.

This is a resource guide for the FFA chapter advisor that wants to help their officers grow in their leadership ability, make their FFA chapter student led and student run, have a competent, capable chapter officer team every year, and be the Advisor of the chapter and not the person responsible for every aspect of the chapter's operation.  Mpower is made possible through the generous support of  Bayer CropScience as a special project of the National FFA Foundation.

Learners will identify sources of air pollution, explain the greenhouse effect, and detail procedures for improving and maintaining air quality. This represents a portion of the Introduction to Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources (AFNR) series in Nebraska middle and high school agricultural education.

The Nature of Geographic Information is an orientation to the properties of geographic data and the practice of distance learning. The purpose of this course is to promote understanding of the Geographic Information Science and Technology (GIS&T) enterprise. GIS&T is the intersection of professions, institutions, and technologies that produce geographic data and render information from it. It is a rapidly growing and evolving field. Learning is a way of life for all GIS&T professionals. With this in mind, I hope that this text may contribute to your lifelong exploration of how geospatial technologies can be used to improve the quality of life-yours and your neighbors', locally and globally, now and in the future.

Pair this activity with lessons on selective breeding. Students will identify desirable genetic traits in apples and use a coin flip to simulate the steps and time involved to breed a new cultivar of apple. (Photo by Tom Paolini on Unsplash.com)

This lesson plan and complimentary resources describes and classifies common pests, favorable conditions for pests, and the way pests affect plants and cause losses. Students will explain Integrated Pest Management and methods used to control plant pests. Lesson plan from the New Mexico Animal, Plant, and Soil Science Lesson Plan Library.

This lesson is set up as project based learning on how to measure metal.  Students will get first hand experience discovering foundational knowledge about tools that measure metal length width and thickness.  Then they will get to practice measuring objects and metal.  

This lesson introduces students to beef, pork, and lamb retail cuts, as well as assesses their ability to correctly identify each retail cut.

This lesson plan explores the difference between good and poor quality feedstuffs by learning the functions of feed, identifying feed types and characteristics, and identifying how animals are fed. Lesson plan from the New Mexico Animal, Plant, and Soil Science Lesson Plan Library.

This lesson includes lectures about meeting the nutritional needs of animals to maintain animal performance, analyze feedstuffs for quality, and determine whether or not a feed ration fulfills a given animal’s nutrient requirements. From New Mexico Animal, Plant, and Soil Science Lesson Plan Library. 

Supervised Agricultural Experiences (SAE) and Record Keeping have long been a crucial and significant component of the three-circle model of a complete agricultural education program. SAE’s and the affiliated records open opportunities for students to experience success in the FFA degree and proficiency award applications. The Agricultural Experience Tracker (AET) serves as a conduit linking student record keeping, activity documentation, SAE visits, SAE photos, and even career exploration into a digital platform which is classroom ready and meets the needs of ALL students in the classroom.

A series of videos will address a broad overview of SAE’s and their associated documents. From these videos, hopefully you will be able to glean some best practices to create a user-designed tool to manage SAE’s, student involvement, and your time investment with your students and programs.

Concise lesson plan template asking for the 'essential question', objectives, interest approach, content/procedure/activity, and closure/check for understanding.  Developed by Matt Kriefels.

When surveyed, 31% of potential job seekers across the state cite lack of training as an obstacle to improving their employment situation. However, many employers throughout the state are willing to upskill and train incoming workers to be proficient at their job duties.

Site provides information for job seekers, including labor market information, occupations in Nebraska, career resources, and emplyee benefits data.

This resource equips Nebraska educators with training and support to author high-quality open educational resources for CTE programs. Our goal is a hub of reliable and attractive materials on relevant program topics that are easily discoverable within aligned Nebraska Career Pathways.  Section One prepares OER authors by setting us up on OER Commons and metatagging for Nebraska CTE.  Section Two compiles resources to clarify Fair and Transformative Use of copyrighted work.  Section Three links to an award-winning and comprehensive OER training.