Agriculture Survey
Course Syllabus (PDF)
Credit: 1
Prerequisite: Open to all students
Purpose: Provide students with a broad overview of agriculture through experiences both inside and outside of the classroom, in the shop, outdoors, or in the school greenhouse. Students will gain insight into the many areas of career opportunities in agriculture. Students also have the opportunity to join FFA.
Content: Course includes plant identification, agricultural marketing and economics, shop project, dairy, livestock, horses, small animals, horticulture, dairy products, and aquaculture.
Animal Science
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Credit: 1
Prerequisite: Open to students in grades 10-12
Purpose: Provide students with basic knowledge of animals and the use of animals in agriculture. Students will develop skills in understanding the biological functions of animals and factors determining efficiencies and qualities.
Content: This class will acquaint students with the biological functions of animals. This class will cover body parts and structure before delving internally into nutrition, digestion, reproduction and body systems. It will also cover diseases, treatment, and genetics. It has an ongoing laboratory utilizing Coturnix Quail and the aquaculture.
Soil Science
Course Syllabus (PDF)
Credit: 1/2 Offered Second Semester
Prerequisite: Open to students in grades 10-12
Purpose: Acquaint students with skills necessary for horticulture and crop production. Familiarize students with principles of plant growth, reproduction, factors involved in formation of soils, elements essential for high production, fertilizers, and management practices.
Content: The course topics include soil traits, soil conservation, use of fertilizer, land management, soil development, soil chemistry and structure, and career opportunities. Hydroponics are also experimented with.
Fish and Wildlife Conservation
Course Syllabus (PDF)
Credit: 1/2 Offered 1st Semester every other year
Prerequisite: Open to students in grades 11-12
Purpose: It motivates students to explore their own value systems and beliefs and begin to understand the wildlife, forest, and fish resources we have at this time. Putting the knowledge to work, students will be able to make decisions in the future regarding these areas.
Content: The course offers a study of predators, hoofed animals, marine animals, as well as studying endangered animals. The students will learn about habitat, carrying capacity, and the role of the wildlife.
Introductory Horticulture
Course Syllabus (PDF)
Course Syllabus
Credit: 1/2 Offered 1st Semester
Prerequisite: Open to students in grades 11-12
Purpose: Acquaint students with various career opportunities in the horticultural fields. Propagation techniques, soil mediums, and plant varieties will be discussed.
Content: Through work in the greenhouse and classroom, students will develop knowledge and skills of basic plant growth and reproduction. The entire spectrum of horticulture will be covered: flowers to fruits, vegetables to lawns. Students will have hands-on experience propagating poinsettias and other holiday plants. Tissue culture, cuttings, and holiday wreaths will also be done in this course.
Ornamental Horticulture
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Credit: 1/2 Offered Second Semester
Prerequisite: Successful completion of Introductory Horticulture
Purpose: To develop skills and knowledge needed in the horticultural field. Students will be provided with many hands-on activities.
Content: Students will study flowering crops in the classroom such as annuals, biennials, and perennial, as well as vegetable crops. Fertilizers, growing mediums and containers will also be discussed. This will be reinforced with extensive hands-on experience in the greenhouse.
Landscape Management
Course Syllabus (PDF)
Credit: 1/2 Offered Second Semester
Prerequisite: Successful completion of Introductory Horticulture.
Purpose: Provide information and activities for students interested in the area of turf and landscape management. Due to the large number of jobs available in our community and the surrounding area, students with knowledge of these principles will be more employable. In FFA this is becoming a popular SAE with students.
Content: Students will propagate flowers in the greenhouse as well as study identification and use them in the landscape. Shrub and tree identification as well as use in he landscape will be covered. Students will also design landscape as well as plant areas around the school when the weather warms in the spring.
Biotechnology
Course Syllabus (PDF)
(taught over distance learning network)
Credit: 1/2 Offered First Semester
Prerequisite: Open to students in grades 11-12
Purpose: To give students a chance to look into the future and learn about occupations that will be available to them. The class will also assist students in making decisions in the future about bio-engineered foods and products.
Content: Students will be involved through hands-on activities with practices such as tissue culturing, electrophoresis, DNA mapping, cloning, etc. Students will learn and understand theories and applications.
Marketing and Management
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Credit: 1
Prerequisite: Open to seniors. To take the class for three credits the student must have taken and passed Employability Skills or be taking it concurrently as a first semester senior and been enrolled in Ag classes for at least five semesters.
Purpose: To develop an understanding of the American market place, managing skills, and understand commodities and the futures market.
Content: Through activities and projects, students will study the consumer and producer and how the supply and demand exists. Students will also be involved in commodity futures activities and visit the Chicago Board of Trade. Students will manage a production operation both financially and production based on a computer simulation.
Environmental Conservation
Course Syllabus (PDF)
Credit: Offered 1st Semester every other year
Prerequisite: Open to students in grades 11-12
Purpose: To increase the knowledge in students on one of today's hottest topics. Students will be encouraged to make decisions based not only on their values, but looking at an enlightened picture of the individual. Students will also discover career areas in this field.
Content: Students will study the impact of various problems affecting the earth and its habitants. Visits will be made to waste facilities and government offices.
Aquaculture
Course Syllabus (PDF)
Credit: 1/2 Offered 2nd Semester
Prerequisite: Open to students in grades 11-12
Purpose: Aquaculture is an exciting new field in agriculture. Students will learn why it will be so important in the future and develop background knowledge in the production and cultivation of the many species involved.
Content: Utilizing tanks we have as a laboratory, students will be involved with the propagation and production of such species as trout, catfish, prawn, bait fish and tropical fish. Students will apply water chemistry and feeding principles as well as running studies on growth.
Selection and Evaluation of Livestock
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Credit: 1/2 Offered 2nd Semester
Prerequisite: Open to students in grades 10-12
Purpose: This class will provide students with an interest in livestock the opportunity to learn what the livestock industry is striving for. The students will learn body parts of the animals and their importance in evaluation.
Content: Through multi-media presentations as well as live classes the students will select superior animals and give both written and oral reasons for doing so. The students will also learn about the end product of the meat industry. The animals that will be covered will include dairy, beef, swine, sheep, horses, goats, and poultry if time permits.
Leadership
Course Syllabus (PDF)
Credit: 1/2 Offered 1st Semester
Prerequisite: Open to students in grades 10-12
Purpose: This course will enable students to develop leadership skills through public speaking and team building exercises.
Content: Students will participate in parliamentary procedure and learn how to successfully conduct a meeting. Conceptual skills will be enhanced through problem solving, decision making, and goal setting exercises. The course will conclude with a career exploration, a transition to work unit concentrating on writing resumes, and interviewing.
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