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.

This is a template for Nebraska Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources contributors for use in creating OER content. 

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.

Nassella seeds germinated in water to observe germination process. Photo credit: Fernando Agudelo-Silva

The National FFA Convention is an exciting, multi-day event packed with competitions, tours, presentations, workshops, and gatherings.  This is a compilation of documents to aid in planning and managing your chapter’s participation in the convention including samples of information letters to guardians, student applications, reflection, and student schedules.

In this activity students read articles or excerpts of books to explore the topic of sustainability in terms of food webs, roles of plants, animals, fungi, and bacteria and their own food choices. Students continue their exploration of these kingdoms with a visit to a farmers' market and a grocery store to compare locally grown foods and grocery store selections.

(Note: this resource was added to OER Commons as part of a batch upload of over 2,200 records. If you notice an issue with the quality of the metadata, please let us know by using the 'report' button and we will flag it for consideration.)

Career videos show the types of work in which individuals employed in a career field, cluster or pathway are engaged. Nebraska Career Education, in cooperation with the Nebraska Departments of Labor and Economic Development, offers an array of virtual career tours of Nebraska-based businesses and industries. Discussion guides for the teacher and viewing guides for students have been developed for each career tour. These virtual industry tours provide a unique opportunity to get a glimpse inside Nebraska-based industries without leaving the classroom. Interviews, tours of the business environment and “pop-up” information and statistics on job markets, salaries, and educational requirements are part of each career cluster’s videos.

Established with the aid of a Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE) grant, this project was created to offer insight into what sustainability within agriculture actually looks like. Spread across eastern Nebraska, ten different farming operations are featured across the twenty different videos. Each farmer was interviewed by a high school student from a nearby school about what their operation does, how and why they choose to manage it in a certain way, and what makes it sustainable as well as what would make it more sustainable.

Video link and accompanying worksheet with answer key.  Nebraska ranks #1 in both irrigated acres and groundwater abundance in the U.S. Water is the lifeblood of the state. This program, produced in cooperation with the Nebraska State Irrigation Association, explores the relationships between groundwater and surface water, the different ways in which we use it, and how we work together to manage water for future generations.

This seven-day lesson covers the ins and outs of Nebraska wildlife mammals. During the lesson, students explore wildlife mammals, learn extensive information about each mammal, and are evaluated on their ability to identify each mammal by pelt/hide. The list of wildlife mammals is based on the species identification component of the Nebraska FFA Environmental & Natural Resources competition.

This resource provides a set of narrated animations demonstrating the normal and toxic actions within the axon and/or synapse of neurons. A brief overview of the neuron structure and neuron-to-neuron communication is presented first. Next, axon normal functions and synapse normal functions are presented in small segments. Each set of normal functions are followed by the associated toxic actions (pyrethroid toxicity of the axon, organophosphate toxicity and neonicotinoid toxicity of the synapse, and DDT toxicity occurring in both the axon and the synapse). The interface allows the user to compare and contrast the normal functions with those with toxic actions.

One important sector of the Food Industry is new product development.  At the conclusion of a basic food science unit, students will have the opportunity to develop their own new food products and consider how they will market their items to consumers.

This resource was created by Dylan Huber, in collaboration with Dawn DeTurk, Hannah Blomstedt, and Julie Albrecht, as part of ESU2's Integrating the Arts project. This project is a four year initiative focused on integrating arts into the core curriculum through teacher education, practice, and coaching.