2.3 Technology Tool Belt
This is Lesson 3 (“Technology Tool Belt”) from the Grow Your PALS Program Guide, part of the National FFA Mentoring Program’s Technology unit. Through hands-on activities using the Agri-Food Chain (e.g., wheat-to-bread and cotton-to-blue-jeans), mentees identify the benefits of technology and match different technologies to the segments of the agricultural industry that use them. The lesson includes an interest approach, e-Moment teaching strategies, application options, and an evaluation with answer key.
At a glance
- Learning objectives
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- Describe examples of the benefits from technology.
- Differentiate between technologies used by different segments of the agricultural industry.
- Time required
- Instruction time for this lesson: 50 minutes.
- Materials
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- wheat (actual wheat or included picture)
- loaf of Bread (actual bread or included picture)
- cotton (real cotton or included picture)
- blue jeans (actual jeans or included picture)
- flip chart paper
- markers
- scrap paper — 1 sheet per student
- long strips of paper: approximately 3 inches by 40 inches — 1 per student
- technology arrows — 1 set per group
- masking tape
- Unit
- Technology
- Lesson Type
- Large Group
- Precepts
- F. Continuous Improvement; F4. Adapt to emerging technologies
- Key Terms
- technology, agriculturalist