Ag Technology/Explorations
Students will be beginning a unit on parliamentary procedure this week, using a modified version of Roberts Rules of Order and will develop an understanding for why meetings need structure and how Parliamentary Procedure provides that structure when used correctly.
Mini-units on Horse Judging and Careers in Agriculture are soon to follow.
8th Grade Intro to Agriculture
All groups should be near to finished with building mouse mazes and will be racing the mice starting Monday to test their hypotheses about the relationship between healthy diets and performance (both physically and mentally)
Small Engines
After completing the Carburetion unit, students will be spending some time in the shop, dismantling the L-Head small engine as a group before receiving their own engines to dismantle, rebuild, and made run again.
Agribusiness Management
Multi-tasking is the name of the game for the coming weeks in Agribusiness. Activities will include but are not limited to:
-Parliamentary Procedure
-Creating a Marketing Plan for the local Producers' COOP Farm Store
-Creating a Business Plan for the class business project
-Identifying a following stocks/commodities
-Working with the National Agricultural Communications CDE Team
