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This
course examines the social, economic, and scientific concepts related
to adding value to raw and processed agricultural products. Specific
topics include:
- the agricultural
impact of economics, cultures, social structures, technologies
- agricultural
processing, products, and nutrition
- the environmental
issues resulting from adding value to agricultural products
Laboratory
activities will provide opportunity for:
- examining
various technologies
- evaluating
product
- examining
nutritional advantages
- assessing
economic benefits to communities
- determining
the environmental impact on various developments.
This material
can easily be adapted to your teaching style, to what you need the
students to learn, and placed immediately into your existing classes.
This “Course in a Box” can also be used as the basis for
a stand-alone course or utilized in a team-teaching environment.
This curriculum is designed to lead you and your students through
the process of adding value to agricultural commodities and establishing
an entrepreneurship program. The lessons will help prepare students
for an entrepreneurship SAE and the Ag Marketing and Ag Sales Career
Development Events(CDE).
The strength
of this curriculum is in its design. Minimal teacher prep time is
needed since each lesson includes a detailed lesson plan, problem
statements, learning objectives, principles and practices, transparency
masters, worksheet/quiz masters, student activity masters, other
support materials, suggested time and activity sequence charts,
and comprehensive content outlines that include “teacher helps”.
This curriculum is ideal for beginning instructors and seasoned
veterans alike!
This "Course
in a Box" contains:
Ten notebooks
containing 62 lesson plans; worksheet, transparency, and quiz masters;
several detailed examples; FFA-CDE guidelines; and performance and
evaluation package.
- University
of Minnesota case-study on sustainable agriculture
- Ten videotape
programs
- Two reference
books and four supplemental reference packages
- Soybean
Instructional Kit (CD-ROM, video, and teacher's manual)
- Crop ID
Kit, containing ten samples and instructor's guide
- Minnesota
commodity cards
- Approximately
20 value added product samples
- All packaged
in two resusable plastic boxes
Ten Unit - 62
Lesson Curriculum
Unit 1: Introduction
to Value-added Agriculture - 5 lessons
Unit 2: Agricultural Product Utilization - 12 Lessons
Unit 3: Processing & Manufacturing of Agricultural Products
- 4 Lessons
Unit 4: Social, Economic, & Environmental Impact of Agriculture
- 5 Lessons
Unit 5: Product Development - 6 Lessons
Unit 6: Market Research - 5 Lessons
Unit 7: Creating a Business Plan - 8 Lessons
Unit 8: Producing the Product - 5 Lessons
Unit 9: Selling Skills - 5 Lessons
Unit 10: Evaluation - 4 Lessons
Course Objectives
Students will be able to:
- Describe
ways value can be added to agricultural products.
- Describe
the foundational nature of agriculture to civilization and cultures.
- Determine
the integral nature of agriculture into the general culture.
Describe the flow of agricultural products through the economy.
- Describe
the variety of agricultural products used in everyday living.
- Evaluate
the impact of product and monies generated by agriculture in
everyday business.
- Assess the
social and economic advantages of adding value to rural and
urban communities.
- Evaluate
the factors in entrepreneurship and marketing agriculture products.
- Describe
the scientific and economic processes essential in developing
a new
product.
- Determine
demands, wants, needs, and nutritional features in product
development.
- Analyze
the image of agriculture by the public and the role of value-added.
- Compare
the environmental impact of agriculture and agricultural product
flow.
- Determine
the process involved in converting raw materials into finished
product.
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