Students will understand the role agriculture plays in determining the wealth of a nation, document the role agriculture played in American history, and describe the impact environmental and agricultural systems will have on the future world population.

This lecture with slides introduces the functions of ruminant animals, parts and processes of the ruminant digestive system, and details the first two components of the digestive system of ruminant animals. Created by: Arelene Barrett, Dennis Bratton, Mariah Gumphry, Haley Vrazel

This lesson presents students with information regarding the differences between ruminant and monogastric digestive systems. The project portion of this lesson allows students to work in small groups and get creative to demonstrate their knowledge of these two digestive systems. 

These guides give an overview of Supervised Agricultural Experiences (SAEs), explain how SAEs work, and provide SAE options, implementation tips and appendices, including leaning plans, career plan templates, supervision plans and more.

This is a compilation of SAE for All resources, including informational materials and videos and teacher created resources.  Many more additional resources can be found at https://saeforall.org/educator-resources/

Bring your students to a sale barn auction inside your classroom! Whether the sale barn is in your town or an hour away, this lesson can help students think like a cattle feeder - using math to determine how to bid and when they should bid on cattle that are at the sale barn.

Course imparts information about the care and management of domesticated animals. Animal nutrition, health, reproduction, genetics, facilities, and marketing are all possible topics; Study of anatomy and physiology of livestock and other domesticated animals. Examination of developmental stages and analysis of feed ration for different parts of an animal's life cycle. Identification of environmental factors that affect an animal's performance, and recognition of animal behaviors to facilitate working with animals safely.

In this seven-day lesson, students learn the importance of scoring whitetail antlers, demonstrate the scoring process, and compete in an antler-constructing contest.

Students will spend weeks observing seeds prepared for germination in five ways:  control (no prep), sulphuric acid soak, hot water soak, filing/sanding seed coat, and cracking seed coat with a blow from a hammer.  By Aaron Magnuson, Branson High School

An activity to help students understand the basic process of how soybeans are sold (upon delivery) to a grain elevator.

The purpose of the 1G destructive bend test is to assess the student's ability to create a structurally sound material.

The purpose of this lesson will be to strike an arc with a shielded metal arc welder.  Students will practice creating an arc.

This lesson will help students become more proficient at creating a weld bead in the flat position.

Show students what forestry and woodland management looks like with this collection of images providing extensive visual examples of regeneration practices, nursery operations, intermediate treatments, and forest products.

This lesson introduces principles of small animal health care with research to identify and describe common diseases or parasites, symptoms and causes, treatment, and prevention.

This illustration can be printed by each student to organize every bold in a Briggs and Stratton 6.5HP motor, Model #121400.  Designed by Tyler Schmidt.

In this lesson, students will learn about the safety hazards associated with the small engines shop. Students will learn how to avoid those safety hazards to operate the safest learning environment.

A Small Gas Engines interactive notebook to help prepare students for the Briggs & Stratton Master Service Technician Exam 1. By Troy White

The students will analyze soil samples and determine the percentages of sand, silt and clay in each sample.  The students will also conduct a soil analysis to determine the pH and the amount of nitrogen, potassium and phosphorus in each sample.

This Lesson will examine the definition of Soil using written and video references.  The lesson will also demonstrate how to identify different soil types by examining the texture of different soil samples.  The lab portion will allow students to collect, evaluate and determine soil texture and type using the hands-on ribbon method.  The lesson is meant to be conducted over a period of two to three days depending on class period length.