1.5 Levels of Membership – Active, Collegiate, Alumni and Honorary
This FFA Basics lesson teaches students to identify the four levels of FFA membership—Active, Collegiate, Alumni, and Honorary—including the requirements and characteristics of each. Students follow a lecture using their handbooks and complete a Mother Goose e-Moment activity rewriting nursery rhymes with the new content, then take a six-question multiple-choice assessment (answer key included).
At a glance
- Learning objectives
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- Identify the four levels of membership.
- Time required
- Activity 1 – 20 min
- Materials
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- The Official FFA Student Handbook – one copy per student
- Writing utensils
- Notebook paper
- Public writing surface
- FFA.OH.1.5.ASSESS – one per student
- FFA.OH.1.5.ASESS.KEY – one per teacher
- Content Outline
- A. Four levels of membership: 1. Active (a middle or high school student, enrolled in agriculture education classes, paid chapter dues); 2. Collegiate (attend a two- or four-year school, enrolled in agriculture education classes OR have continued interest in the future welfare in the agriculture industry, paid chapter dues); 3. Alumni (a past member or one who has never been an active member, provides volunteer hours at the chapter, state and national levels); 4. Honorary (parent or community member who has gone beyond the call of duty, membership is a form of recognition, does not possess voting rights or privileges available to active FFA members)
- Additional Resources
- National FFA Official Manual – https://www.ffa.org/shopffa/pages/index.html; National FFA Web site – www.ffa.org