This instructor's guide accompanies the secondary-level, competency-based student material for Nursery and Greenhouse Worker available separately--see note. It is intended for use as a reference and aid in implementing the curriculum in a vocational agriculture program. These sections are included: identification and validation of job titles and…

This secondary-level, competency-based curriculum contains 11 modules for Nursery and Greenhouse Worker. A companion teacher's guide is available separately--see note. Each module contains a number of West Virginia-validated Nursery and Greenhouse Worker tasks/competencies with a performance guide listing the steps needed to perform each task,…

A horticultural core curriculum and draft copies of three horticultural cluster curricula are provided. Materials related to the curriculum development project appear first. The core curriculum is designed to provide broad initial instruction in horticulture for students in the first year of a secondary-level vocational horticulture program. The…

This curriculum guide consists of 14 units for use in teaching a high school level horticulture course. Covered in the individual units are the following topics: opportunities in horticultural occupations; plant classification and identification; structures and equipment used in producing greenhouse, ornamental, and nursery plants; greenhouse…

This secondary horticulture curriculum guide is one of a set of three designated as the basic core of instruction for horticulture programs in Kansas. Units of instruction are presented in eight sections: (1) Human Relations, (2) Business Operations, (3) Greenhouse, (4) Retail Flowershop Operation, (5) Landscape Nursery, (6) Lawn Maintenance, (7)…

Designed for use when the student or the class is expected to grow a crop using the high school greenhouse, these learning activity packages are sequenced in typical greenhouse cropping fashion: (1) poinsettias in the fall, (2) Easter lilies (bulb crop) in the winter, (3) bedding plants (seed crop) in the spring, and (4) a nursery crop (from…

This resource catalog of horticulture curriculum materials for students with special needs is divided into twenty-seven instructional areas: aboriculture; annuals; entomology; floral crops production; floral design and flower shop operations; garden center; greenhouse; ground covers and hedges; herbs; house plants; landscape construction and…

The unit was developed as a guide for use by teachers in planning and conducting adult classes in horticulture. The target audience is adults employed in agriculture in Kentucky. Because of the diversity in age, expertise, and experience levels of class members and instructors, the unit was designed to cover the basic areas of greenhouse…

This packet contains a program guide and a career map for the implementation of a nursery operations program in Florida secondary and postsecondary schools. The program guide describes the program content and structure, provides a program description, lists job titles under the program, explains licensing, and includes a curriculum framework and…

This secondary horticulture curriculum guide is one of a set of three designated as the basic core of instruction for horticulture programs in Kansas. Units of instruction are presented in thirteen sections: (1) Orientation and Careers, (2) Leadership and Future Farmers of America, (3) Supervised Occupational Experience Program, (4) Plant…

Of 168 high school students, 107 were taught a horticulture unit that included a greenhouse laboratory experience, 61 received the unit without the lab. Lab experience resulted in significantly higher knowledge scores but made no significant difference in postexperiment attitudes. (SK)

This curriculum guide provides the plant science components of the vocational agriculture curriculum for Regional Vocational Agriculture Centers. The curriculum is divided into exploratory units for students in the 9th and 10th grades and specialized units for students in grades 11 and 12. The five exploratory units are: agricultural pest control;…

Interviews with 32 Finnish greenhouse and nursery owners explored their knowledge-construction processes. Different ways of knowing and the importance of practical wisdom were identified. Implications for extension educators include the need to expand understanding of learning and learning theories and the opportunity to become knowledge managers…

This task analysis guide is intended to help teachers and administrators develop instructional materials and implement competency-based education in the horticulture program. Section 1 contains a validated task inventory for horticulture III, IV, and V. For each task, applicable information pertaining to performance and enabling objectives,…

A program and facility for teaching horticulture with a career education emphasis at the high school level are described as the goals of a teacher realized. (AG)