Instructor’s Guide
The Assistive Technology for Rural Youth Curriculum is a curriculum package for FFA chapters developed by the Breaking New Ground Resource Center at Purdue University (2009). It consists of a Leader’s Guide with three 50-60 minute lesson plans, The Toolbox CD, and a classroom poster, designed to raise FFA members’ awareness of the impact of disability on people in agriculture and the benefits of assistive technology. The three lessons cover tools/technologies/innovative work practices in agriculture, principles of assistive technology, and disability awareness.
At a glance
- Learning objectives
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- Lesson 1 — Explain the role of tools, technology, and innovative work practices in making farmers and ranchers more productive.
- Lesson 1 — Identify the ways that tools, technologies, and innovative work practices can benefit farmers and ranchers with disabilities.
- Lesson 1 — Explain how a person's disability and the use of some assistive technologies can present special safety issues to those working in production agriculture.
- Lesson 2 — Explain the term "assistive technology."
- Lesson 2 — Identify the importance of assistive technology through hands-on exercises.
- Lesson 2 — Identify basic categories of assistive technology and identify product examples in each category.
- Lesson 3 — Explain the definition of disability and basic categories of disabilities.
- Lesson 3 — Know the overall prevalence rate of disability in society and in the agricultural workforce.
- Lesson 3 — Identify societal attitudes and students attitudes about disabilities that may create barriers for people with disabilities.
- Lesson 3 — Explain ways that FFA Chapters could help empower people with disabilities to become more included in their communities.
- Time required
- Three 50-60 minute lesson plans
- Materials
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- Computer
- Screen
- LCD projector
- PowerPoint presentations for the three lesson plans
- Toolbox containing common carpentry or mechanic tools (Lesson 1)
- Black, dry erase, smartboard
- Spark plug and wire or feeler gauge (Lesson 2)
- Magnifying glass (Lesson 2)
- Hammer, nails and short length of 2×4 lumber (Lesson 2)
- Ladder or stool (Lesson 2)
- The Toolbox CD
- Classroom poster
- "Famous People with Disabilities" worksheet (Lesson 3)