AHS.53 SAE Programs and FFA’s Proficiency Awards
This LifeKnowledge lesson (AHS.53) teaches students about the rewards and honors available for quality Supervised Agricultural Experience (SAE) programs through the National FFA Organization’s Agricultural Proficiency Award program. Students learn to locate applications, handbooks, and support materials on the Local Program Resource CD-ROM and FFA website, and to identify the categories of proficiency awards for which their SAEs may be eligible.
At a glance
- Learning objectives
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- Identify potential rewards and honors for quality SAEs.
- Locate applications, handbooks, and support materials for competition in the proficiency awards program, and become aware of support resources for facilitating the completion of quality applications for the proficiency awards program.
- List the categories of proficiency.
- Time required
- Instruction time for this lesson: 50 minutes.
- Grade level
- Advanced High School
- Materials
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- Writing surface
- Personal computer including Adobe Reader, Microsoft Office, or Word, Excel, and PowerPoint software—one each per student or group
- Computer projector
- A list of proficiency awards sponsored by FFA and definitions from the Agriculture Proficiency Awards Handbook—one copy per student
- AHS.53.Assess—one per student
- "Local Program Resource Guide" 2002–2003 or later version
- National FFA Organization Website. www.ffa.org
- Unit
- Component of Agriculture Education
- Problem Area
- Supervised Agriculture Experience
- Precepts
- A4: Identify and use resources
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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.