Horse Diseases Grade Level: 9th - 12thSubject: Animal ScienceDuration: 3 daysDOK Level:  2SAMR Level:  Substitution Indiana Standard: AS-3.3 Identify common diseases, parasites and physiological disorders that affect animals AS-3.4 Explain the health risk of zoonotic diseases to humans and their historical significance and future implications Objective: The students will research and write a report explaining one horse disease and one horse parasite with no more than 10 grammatical errors.Procedure: Show the video Horse & Human Crossover DiseasesHold a class discussion about zoonotic diseases and if they are familiar of any other diseases like thisHave them write a short description of a zoonotic disease in their notebookHand out and explain the Horse Disease Project guidelinesUse google classroom to manage the submission of the project and progress checks.Have the students claim their disease and parasites picked for their reports under the comments of the google classroom assignment. Day 2 Have students review each other's work and make suggestionsDay 3 Have the students prepare and present a summary of their findingsProduct or Assessment: The students will be graded on the feedback they give their peers, written report, and the verbal summary. 

This introductory lesson presents an overview of the horse industry including classification, breeds, colors, tack, and history of horses used in the United States. This represents a portion of the Introduction to Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources (AFNR) series in Nebraska middle and high school agricultural education.

The bare minimum to complete an assignment on Open Educational Resources.  My apologies for the poor quality of this resource. 

How can you collaborate with partner/s to design a garden that grows ingredients for a pizza? Your design will be specific to the conditions of the Maine community where you live, and you will have several important decisions to make about its location. Will the garden be indoors, outdoors, virtual, or a combination?

Your partner/s can be friends, family, classmates, community members, or you can choose to work alone. Using a Google Slides Template that you copy and download, you will document your pizza garden designs. Your final garden design will be shared using a slideshow, video, or photograph format, with an audience that you choose -- You Tube, your local School Board, Google Classroom and a favorite teacher, Google Sites, social media, family and friends, or create your own hashtag.

Research will help you decide what the best growing situations are for your Pizza Garden plants and your environment. You will explore various designs and then, based on your new learning, you will design a garden that represents your thinking behind the choices you made. Finally, you will use the method that works best for you and share your Pizza Garden design with others.

Again, all of this work can be done collaboratively, with partners, or by you independently.

So, what is the best design for a pizza garden in Maine? It's up to YOU!

Part of the Fast Plants website, the "Grow" section offers complete instructions for preparing to grow, planting, tending, pollinating, and harvesting Wisconsin Fast Plants seeds. Instructions include text descriptions, photos, videos, and PDF instructions that can be downloaded, including a shopping list for buying your own planting mix and fertilizer. Whether you are looking to DIY your Fast Plants' lighting and growing systems or looking for links to purchase materials, this up-to-date resources is the right place to start.

Just like manure, compost can improve your garden soil and make your vegetables or flowers grow stronger and healthier. Here’s how you and your family can make some compost.

This video is provided by Wisconsin Fast Plants and demonstrates how to plant Fast Plants seeds using the Bottle Growing System. The video gives an overview of the materials necessary to grow with this method, and also provides step-by-step instructions guiding the process. This recording runs for 04:21 minutes in length. Additional videos about planting with Fast Plants are available to view separately.

This video is provided by Wisconsin Fast Plants and demonstrates how to plant Fast Plants seeds using the Deli Container Growing System. The video gives an overview of the materials necessary to grow plants with this method, and also provides step-by-step instructions guiding the process. This recording runs for 02:47 minutes in length. Additional videos about planting with Fast Plants are available to view separately.

This video is provided by Wisconsin Fast Plants, and demonstrates how to plant Fast Plant seeds using a quad-planter and wicking reservoir system. The video gives an overview of the materials necessary to grow plants with this method, and also provides step-by-step instructions guiding the process. The use of quads in this growing method is teacher-friendly, and enables collaboration between students. This recording runs for 03:07 minutes in length. Additional videos about planting with Fast Plants are available to view separately.

Fourth in a series of videos from Khan Academy and 23andMe that introduces human prehistory, this video describes how agriculture changed human societies and genetics throughout the world.

This video features Katharine Hayhoe presenting a lively discussion of impacts that the Midwestern US is experiencing due to climate change. It steps through evidence for how climate change is affecting agriculture, tourism, drought and flood, water cycles and freshwater availability, the spread of invasive species and disease, as well as other topics.

This Summary for teachers is inspired by the IPCC's Special Report on Climate Change and Land.

This resource is a teacher-friendly version of the Summary for Policymakers of the IPCC report. Useful infographics and ideas for short class activities are provided, as well a glossary and a list of educational resources.

This activity guides students through an ‘idea storm’ where they practice identifying a pain point, or opportunity, in the context of exploring business ownership, entrepreneurship, and Supervised Agricultural Experiences as part of agricultural education.  Developed by Engler Entrepreneurship Program, University of Nebraska - Lincoln

A large part of CDEs is identification. In this lesson, students help make the quiz slides and then have a weekly quiz on plants. This can be used for animal breeds, veterinary science tools and parasites as well!

Students will identify nutrient deficiencies in crops to determine plant nutrient requirements for optimum growth. Lesson plan from the New Mexico Animal, Plant, and Soil Science Lesson Plan Library.

In this lesson, students will be asked to determine what is wrong with a patient that is displaying symptoms of rabies.  Then the students will be asked what causes sickness in animals.  Then they will research the causes of illness and disease in animals with the Go Get It e-Moment.  A discussion about how to prevent illness and disease will lead to an understanding of biosecurity.  The students will then use what they have learned to complete a health plan for an animal in their lives.NE.AFNR.HS.28.5.a or NE.AFNR.HS.29.3.b

STUDENT LEARNING OBJECTIVE: Students will be able to analyze the environmental, economic, and social impacts of raising livestock and cultivating soybeans in diversified agricultural systems.MEASURABLE ACHIEVEMENT GOAL: Students will create a comparative brochure that illustrates the impacts of livestock raising and soybean cultivation on the environment, economy, and society. The brochure should include at least three impacts for each category (environmental, economic, social) for both livestock and soybeans, supported by relevant data or examples.

This lesson presents an overview of the seven areas of Plant Systems:  plant science, crop science, soil science, pomology, olericulture, floriculture, and landscaping and nursery.  Learners then complete a career report over one career from Plant Systems.

The various infographics show one application of marketing and communications on the topic of agriculture. Here, the United States Department of Agriculture compiled data and designed it graphically to share about agriculture, its impacts on communities, and consumer education.

This presentation is an introductory lesson on integration of crop-livestock systems in the United States. The lesson includes national Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources Standards, objectives, and a student project. This lesson is intended to be inquiry-based, and as such only foundational information is presented. Students are expected to take the introductory information and find specific information needed to solve the problem posed at the beginning of the presentation. It is expected that at a minimum this lesson will take three 50-minute class periods and could take longer based on teacher preferences.