Web Resources



Web Resources

General Education

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A repository has been created for Ag Ed curriculum for Learning Disabled (LD) students in our classrooms, and is accessible for use by all Ag Ed teachers.  Sample Learning Objects (LO) are provided as a format for pre-service teachers to construct additional LOs on other topics.

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Classroom Timers and Fun Timers with interesting characters.

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Great place to create a free website!! You can purchase the domain name or use the free route which would include “weebly” in the domain address.

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Excellent website with PowerPoints and Assessment Games

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Excellent web-based stopwatch timer that can be seen around the room

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Georgia has a fantastic curriculum site where you can find curriculum, practice tests, etc.

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Team AgEd Learning Center

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Ag Ed Links with many more resources

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FFA Week Lesson Plan on “Why be an Agriculture Teacher”

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Teacher Links with games and educational ideas-

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IAAE

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Ag Ed Homepage

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NAAE

• - communities of practice, a nationwide support network teachers and student teachers of agriculture.

YDAE

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Team Ag Ed

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Agricultural Educators Workroom. Visit the 'key' areas to find the resources you seek. Instruction, FFA, SAE, Partnerships, Marketing, Professional Growth and Program Planning.

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Standards on DOE

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MY CAERT

• - PowerPoint presentations for the Indiana Agricultural Science Lesson Plan Library. Click on State Resource Center; Select Indiana; the password is: incore; scroll down and pick a subject, then click on a lesson

e-Moment

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Thinking Maps

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Graphic Organizer Ideas

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Icebreakers/Games

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Videos and Other Resources

• - CEV Multimedia

Free Clip Art

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Free Fonts

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Drugs

• - Website that uses mice to discuss impacts of drugs on the brain.

Google for Teachers

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Teacher Technology

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• - -includes some lesson plans, games, worksheets, rubric generators and other ideas

Teacher Technology

• – converts PDF documents to Word documents

• - Ice Breakers; 10 Best Education Conferences; Freebies; Motivating Students; Reducing Paper Use; Grant Writing Tips; Grading Less & Planning

• - Templates for Review Games

• - Bubble Test Generator

• – Lesson Plans, Puzzle-maker, Science

• - Online Encyclopedia

• - Contains Science Experiments, and Other Subject Material

• - Links for Documentation, Free Stuff, Games, Ideas

• - Teacher Resources, Games

• - Discipline Issues That Make You Think

• - PBS

• - Internet Public Library

• – Free Teaching Materials

• - PowerPoint Templates

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• – Lessons and Labs

• – Worksheets and Labs

• - You can zoom in to see close ups but not too close because then it's fuzzy. In the right corner you can hold the mouse on the red word WikiMapia and you can find specific places and click on add new place. It lets you draw a box around a place and then give its name. Lots of Purdue has been done.

General Agriculture

• – Website created by Michael Sutherland with lesson plans, activities, video clips, etc.

• - games and educational resources from American Farm Bureau Foundation

• Lesson Plans From National Farmers Union

• Lesson Plans from the Smithsonian on Plants and Art.

• A new website on Biotechnology that is funded by USB is now online. If you need a resource to teach Biotechnology, here it is, and FREE!

• - STEM Transitions: Enhancing Mathematics and Science Rigor Through Evidence-Based Curriculum Projects specific to agriculture.

• - More than 1,200 online classroom-ready lessons and coordinating activities make the perfect tool for the busy Ag instructor.

• - Rural Heritage website with excellent links to historical aspects of agriculture. Excellent for talking about the history of agriculture.

• Center for Food and Environment, Lesson Plans for grades 3-8 relating to Agriculture. There is a cost to purchase these lesson plans.

• - Exploring Agriculture Website

• - Toward a Sustainable Agriculture, a curriculum for high school students consists of 5 modules

• - The Education Store: Purdue Extension Publications

• - USDA State Fact Sheets and County Level Tables

• - USDA Links

• - USDA Kid’s Activity Page

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• - Sustainable Agriculture Curriculum

• - Farm Bureau Ag Resources

• - Georgia Ag Ed Resources

• - Glen Rose over 400 PPTs lesson plans

• - UK Agrimania

• - Ontario Gov’t General Ag Information

• - PA Marketplace for the Mind

• - Agriculture Calculators

• - There are hundreds of resources at this website: THE WORLD OF AGRICULTURE.

Links Provided by NAAE

• - Ag teachers sharing their experiences and a student teaching community as well.

• - Free Webinars for Ag Teacher Professional Development

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Animal Sciences

General

• - useful website for teaching genetics in your classroom.

• – YouTube video link on hog processing and other interesting videos.

• - GREAT Resource for Animal Science

• – American Veterinary Medication Association – several resources for teachers

• - Purdue’s School of Veterinary Medicine has information and resources appropriate for elementary/middle school and high school-aged youth and the professionals that work with this audience

• - Breeds of Livestock

• - University of Kentucky

• - Anatomy

• - Purdue Animal Science

• - Colorado State University

• - Interactive Games

Horse

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Swine

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• - Website for the global pig and pork industry

Sheep

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• - Wool

Aquaculture

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• - Fish Trivia

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• -Fish ID

Dairy

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Soil Science

• - Laboratory Exercises for a Soils class

• - USDA Web Soil Survey

• - Textural Triangle

• - Texture Slides

• - Resources to Help in Teaching Soils

Plant Science

Crops

• - Corn

• - Soybeans

• - IN Soybean Board

• - Wheat

• Alfalfa

• - Forage

• - Botany

• - Plant and Seed Film Clips

• - Germination Video and Labs

• - Garden and Plant Information

• - Pesticides

• - Erosion

Food Science

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• - excellent recipe for making cheese

• - University of Kentucky

• -Labs and Links

• – New Food Guide Pyramid

• - Lesson Plans

• - Nutrition and Food Science

• - Food Science Through History

• - Food Facts & Information

Genetics

• - Dr. Barry Pittendrigh and Dr. Kathryn Orvis have created a website on Genomics with Lesson Plans for your use.

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• -DNA Extraction Lab

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Agribusiness-Marketing

• - Lesson plans from Colorado on Agribusiness.

Enterprise Analysis

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Free Agri-Entrepreneurship Lesson Plans: The LifeKnowledge Center for Agricultural Education has developed twelve Agri-Entrepreneurship lessons based on the latest brain-based teaching theories and methodologies; focusing on engaging all types of learners by using hands-on and interactive learning techniques to uncover students’ individual interests. The lessons also seamlessly integrate leadership precepts associated with the three cornerstones of the FFA Mission: premier leadership, personal growth and career success. Additionally, all of the lessons are cross-walked to the appropriate national learning standards in science, language arts, social science, art and math. The lessons are available at:

Agricultural Mechanics

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Shop Tools

• - Laboratory Safety Resources

Welding

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• - Good Educational Tutorials

• - Welding Textbook Resources

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• - Videos

• - Lesson Plans, Industry Links, Math & Science Application

Natural Resources

• - Project Learning Tree – Excellent Standards based material

• - links to natural resource, environmental, and science curriculum that is primarily for elementary/middle school but has application to high school

• - a great game for teaching survival, adaptations and limited resources.

• - Two excellent Units on: Unit 1: Animal Diversity and Tracking and Unit 2: Food Webs

• - Excellent Resources for Educators

• - Track a Pack of Wolves

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• - For all the basics on tracks, visit the National Wildlife Federation’s e Nature site and download a free regional guide to mammal tracks in your area.

• - Forestry Information

• - Tree Planting and Pruning Guide

Horticulture/Landscaping

• - Landscape design software that is free as long as you are online, the only catch is that you can't save any projects but you can print. Also there is a trial version available that you can download.

• - Excellent Resource on Fruits of Warm Climates.

• - Website on Careers in the Horticultural Industry

• - Mary Welch-Keesey and Rosie Lerner, Consumer Horticulture Specialists Purdue Horticulture and LA Dept have developed a CD on Plant Propagation. For those that would like a preview before they buy, they have put the layering chapter on line.

SAE

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FFA

• - Great FFA website for FFA ideas & curriculum pieces

• – FFA Leadership Lesson Plans

• - E. M. Tiffany - Author of the FFA Creed

• - Living the Legacy

• – Parliamentary Procedure lessons and tests.

Miscellaneous

Science Websites

• - The National Science Foundation funds the Science and Technology Center for Environmentally Responsible Solvents and Processes (CERSP) with several experiments to consider.

• - Website for all the different access points along the Wabash River and other interesting information about the river.

• - The National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science has several case studies that could be used for all three ALS courses. They also give teaching notes, objectives, answers to the study questions etc.

• , The University of Utah's Genetic Science Learning Center, is a gold mine of hands-on, well-written lesson plans for grades 7-12.

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• – Interactive Animations

• indiana.edu/~ensiweb/

• – Biology Animation and Pre-labs

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• – Labs, Worksheets, Puzzles

• - Links to Websites

• – Science Articles

• - Experiments

• - Physics Information and Experiments

• - How to Tie a Tie

• – Tie-Dying with Plants

• - Virtual Farm

CDE’s

General CDE Info

• - Instructional Materials for Studying Agricultural Issues

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Livestock

• - South Dakota Livestock Judging Manual

• - Excellent Website on The Biology of the Goat

• - Kansas State Animal Link

• - Ohio State Link

• - South Dakota State Link

• - University of Florida Link

• – Judging Meat Goats

• - A Subscription Website, But Well Worth It

Horse

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Note: Check out Breed Association Websites for Free Booklets and Handouts

Meats

• - While attending the Indiana 4-H/FFA Meat Judging CDE, Dave Schenck, Youth Educator in Owen County, overheard teachers and coaches discussing a lack of resources to train meat judging teams. So, this morning Dave created a helpful page for coaches and teachers to use to train their meat judging students. Once you have accessed this site, click on "Meat Judging CDE Practice Page".

• (county)/Consumer%20Meats-Dairy%20Manual.pdf - Purdue University

• - University of Florida

• - Texas A&M

• - University of Nebraska

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