Advocacy: My Agricultural Story
“My Ag Story” is a quick FFA lesson plan in which students watch the #myAgstory video featuring Tyson CEO Donnie Smith and complete a worksheet about using social media to advocate for agriculture. It teaches students to recognize their responsibility to advocate, identify the communication tools available to them, and develop a concise message to share about agriculture.
At a glance
- Learning objectives
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- Identify ways to advocate with tools they have.
- Understand their responsibility to advocate.
- Develop a concise message.
- Time required
- 30 minutes
- Materials
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- A copy of the "My Ag Story" worksheet for each student.
- Internet access to play the video in real time or embed it in a PowerPoint ahead of time.
- Resources
- FFA.org; Video: Donnie Smith, Tyson CEO: #myAgstory (2014 National FFA Convention) HTTPS://VIMEO.COM/148258748
- This Quick Lesson Plan Would Work Well As
- 1. Class opener; 2. Supplement to ag communications curriculum
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Aligned Standards
AFNR Career Ready Practices
AFNR Performance Element
- CS.01Analyze how issues, trends, technologies and public policies impact systems in the agriculture, food & natural resources career cluster.
Common Core – Math Practices
Common Core – Speaking and Listening
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.9-10.5Make strategic use of digital media (e.g., textual, graphical, audio, visual, and interactive elements) in presentations to enhance understanding of findings, reasoning, and evidence and to add interest.
Common Core – Writing
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.9-10.4Produce clear and coherent writing the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.9-10.6Use technology, including the Internet, to produce, publish, and update individual or shared writing products, taking advantage of technology's capacity to link to other information and to display information flexibility and dynamically.
FFA Precept
- FFA-CS-M.CommunicationEffectively interact with others in personal and professional settings.
- FFA.PL-A.ActionAssume responsibility and take the necessary steps to achieve the desired results, no matter what the goal or task at hand.