SAE – What Should I Do
This FFA lesson plan, “SAE!? What Should I Do?”, helps students explore Supervised Agricultural Experience (SAE) project ideas through a video and partner activity, then create SMART goals and a development timeline for their own SAE. It includes student worksheets for recording project ideas (with an answer key), setting SAE goals, and planning an SAE timeline.
At a glance
- Learning objectives
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- Discover ideas for SAE projects.
- Create SMART goals for their SAE.
- Plan a timeline for SAE development, implementation and evaluation.
- Time required
- 30 minutes
- Materials
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- A copy of the "SAE Project Ideas" 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.
- Resources
- FFA.org; Video: SAEs: Project Ideas https://vimeo.com/161659349
- This Quick Lesson Plan Would Work Well As
- Part of an SAE lesson/unit.
- Partnership for 21st Century Skills
- Communication; Initiative and Self-direction; Leadership and Responsibility
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Aligned Standards
AFNR Career Ready Practices
- CRP.02Apply appropriate academic and technical skills. Career-ready individuals readily access and use the knowledge and skills acquired through experience and education to be more productive.
- 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.
Common Core – Writing
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.9-10.2Write informative/explanatory texts to examine and convey complex ideas, concepts, and information clearly and accurately through the effective selection, organization, and analysis of content.