2.14 Did You Know-Exploring Agricultural Careers
This is Lesson 14 (“Did You Know – Exploring Agricultural Careers”) from the Grow Your PALS Program Guide, part of the National FFA Mentoring Program’s Agricultural Awareness unit. In this large-group lesson, mentees play an “Agriculture Bingo” icebreaker, then pair with mentors to research an assigned agricultural career and present a poster and song about it, learning how everyday activities and careers connect to agriculture.
At a glance
- Learning objectives
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- Discover that many of our everyday activities require some form of agriculture.
- Gain an understanding of careers involving the agricultural industry.
- Time required
- Instruction time for this lesson: 50 minutes.
- Materials
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- PALS.14.AS.A – 1 per person
- PALS.14.AS.B – 1 sheet to cut out each career
- poster board – 1 sheet for each PALS pair
- markers, crayons, colored pencils – enough for the entire class
- notebook paper
- writing utensil
- Various agricultural careers' Web materials and magazines
- Unit
- Agricultural Awareness
- Lesson Type
- Large Group
- Precepts
- A. Action — A5. Communicate effectively with others
- Key Terms
- None
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Aligned Standards
National Standards
- NL-ENG.K-12.8Students use a variety of technological and information resources to gather and synthesize information and to create and communicate knowledge.