This five-day lesson introduces students to micrometers, explains how to read and use these tools, and assesses students' abilities to demonstrate proper micrometer usage and reading.
This lesson is designed to familiarize new students with a bench grinder. Students will learn the key PPE, parts, and then demonstrate how to use it.
This lesson is designed to familiarize new students with an angle grinder. Students will learn the key PPE, parts, and then demonstrate how to use it.
This lesson is designed to familiarize new students with a piece of equipment they will use weekly if not daily in the welding lab. Students will learn the key parts and features of a band saw and finally demonstrate how to use it.
Gauge your students’ skills and teach them new ones in this fun, introductory woodworking project using found pallet lumber. Valuable for assessing what skills students have, do not have, and how hard students work (tearing apart pallets), while providing planters that can be sold as a fundraiser. Written by Boyd Bowder.
This site includes 55 videos demonstrating veterinary techniques, introducing veterinary equipment and materials, explaining animal body systems and organs, aiding animal identification, and more.
This series of resources includes a lecture and activities to define what makes a plant a weed, classify weeds according to life cycles and as monocotyledons or dicotyledons, compare morphological characteristics and functions of different types of leaves, and identify local major weeds.
Geographic information systems (GIS) are important technology that allows rapid study and use of spatial information. GIS have become increasingly prevalent in industry and the consumer/internet world in the last 20 years. Historically, the basis of GIS was in mapping, and so it is important to understand the basis of maps and how to use them as well as why they are different from GIS. In this lesson, students learn the value of maps, how to use maps, and the basic components of a GIS. They are also introduced to numerous GIS applications.
This lesson presents an overview of careers in the Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources (AFNR) field. Learners then complete a career report over one career in the AFNR Field.
Students in this lesson will investigate the different aspects of agronomy through different videos and puzzles. They will define what agronomy is, provide examples of the industry and describe what agronomic sciences entail.
Food labels help consumers make purchasing decisions at the grocery store and provide information about what is inside the container. A food label initially helps sell the product to the consumer and gives the consumer information about the product identity, quality, nutrition, and relevant health and safety information.
This presentation has 70 slides and speaker notes are included in the PowerPoint file.
A brief lesson on the power of the soybean and some different uses that come from soybeans.
This lesson presents an overview of Wildlife Management. Learners will identify characteristics of wildlife, relationships between wildlife, identify approved practices in wildlife management and research a wildlife animal. This represents a portion of the Introduction to Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources (AFNR) series in Nebraska middle and high school agricultural education.
What is the difference between a food web, a food chain, and a food pyramid? This lesson discusses each of these and has the students create their own! Have students research wildlife in different states across the country: what they eat, where they sleep, and where they live.
Just as humans, wildlife have needs. Wildlife needs a place to live, food and water to eat and drink, and a specific environment. Today, you will be learning about a new wildlife species, where they live, and what they need to survive. You will have five different spots on your Wildlife Habitat Amazing Race. At each spot you will have a task to complete to make a complete wildlife habitat.
Just as humans, wildlife have needs. Wildlife needs a place to live, food and water to eat and drink, and a specific environment. Today, you will be learning about a new wildlife species, where they live, and what they need to survive. You will have five different spots on your Wildlife Habitat Amazing Race. At each spot you will have a task to complete to make a complete wildlife habitat.
In this set of lessons, students will be introduced to shop safety. The lessons focus on overall shop safety, how to prevent accidents and where important items in the shop are located. This lesson does not cover specific safety for material handling, equipment or tools as those will be covered later in the course.
eGRO University - Electronic Grower Resources
A series of video lectures and tutorials on a wide variety of topics, a resource of over sixty full-length presentations!
This lesson explains the way pH can influence nutrient uptake and absorption in plants, and includes a lab activity to test soil samples. Lesson and activity from Nebraska CASE Soybean Curriculum.