Lilly Richello – SAE – Blue Lobster
This FFA lesson plan, built around the video “Lilly Richello – SAE – Blue Lobster,” has students explore a lab-based aquatic supervised agricultural experience (SAE) raising blue lobsters. Through worksheets, group research, a poster project, and a gallery walk, students learn about the tasks and challenges of a partnership SAE and investigate how various animals and plants get their color.
At a glance
- Learning objectives
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- Describe the tasks in a lab-based aquatic SAE.
- Identify challenges in a partnership SAE project.
- Create a poster to display findings on how items get their color.
- Compare and contrast how animals and plants get their color.
- Time required
- 60 minutes
- Materials
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- A copy of the "Why Are the Lobsters BLUE?" worksheet for each student
- A copy of the "How Does It Get That Color?" worksheet for each student
- Internet access to play the video in real time or embed it in a PowerPoint ahead of time
- Internet access for students to conduct research
- Paper and coloring supplies for poster
- Partnership for 21st Century Skills
- Communication; Initiative and Self-Direction; Leadership and Responsibility
- This Quick Lesson Plan Would Work Well As Part Of
- An SAE lesson/unit; An aquaculture lesson; A plant science lesson.
- Resources
- "Lilly Richello – SAE – Blue Lobster," https://vimeo.com/300298592
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Aligned Standards
AFNR Career Ready Practices
- CRP.04Communicate clearly, effectively, and with reason. Career-ready individuals communicate thoughts, ideas and action plans with clarity, whether using written, verbal and/or visual methods.
- CRP.10Plan education and career path aligned to personal goals. Career-ready individuals take personal ownership of their own educational and career goals, and they regularly act on a plan to attain these goals.
Common Core – Speaking and Listening
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.9-10.1Initiate and participate effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grades 9-10 topics, texts, and issues, building on others' ideas and expressing their own clearly and persuasively.
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.9-10.2Integrate multiple sources of information presented in diverse media or formats (e.g., visually, quantitatively, orally) evaluating the credibility and accuracy of each source.
FFA Precept
- FFA-CS-M.CommunicationEffectively interact with others in personal and professional settings.
- FFA.PG-I.Professional GrowthAssume responsibility for attaining and improving upon the skills needed for career success.
- FFA.PL-A.ActionAssume responsibility and take the necessary steps to achieve the desired results, no matter what the goal or task at hand.
- FFA.PL-C.VisionVisualize the future and how to get there.
- FFA.PL-E.AwarenessUnderstand personal vision, mission and goals.
- FFA.PL-F.Continuous ImprovementAccept responsibility for learning and personal growth.