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Leonard, David – 1981
This manual, primarily designed to help Peace Corps volunteers develop and strengthen their agricultural skills, deals with traditional field crops. The focus of the manual is on surveying and interpreting local agricultural environment and individual farm units, developing agricultural extension techniques and practices, and providing basic…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Agricultural Production, Agricultural Skills, Agronomy
Lehigh County Area Vocational-Technical School, Schnecksville, PA. – 1983
This brochure describes the philosophy and scope of a secondary-level course in floriculture and horticulture. Addressed in the individual units of the course are the following topics: the Future Farmers of America, floriculture, merchandising and selling, retail flower shop management, advertising, inventory, indentification of common floral…
Descriptors: Advertising, Agricultural Education, Agricultural Machinery, Agricultural Skills
Department of Agriculture, Washington, DC. Office of Governmental and Public Affairs. – 1980
This booklet, one in a series about life on modern farms, describes the daily life of the Don Riffel family, wheat farmers in Kansas. Beginning with early morning, the booklet traces the family's activities through a typical harvesting day in July, while explaining how a wheat farm is run. The booklet also briefly describes the wheat growing…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Agricultural Production, Agronomy, Business Skills
Biondo, Ron; And Others – 1982
This curriculum guide includes teaching packets for 21 problem areas to be included in a core curriculum for 10th grade students enrolled in a rural agricultural program. Covered in the four units included in this volume are crop science (harvesting farm crops and growing small grains); soil science and conservation of natural resources…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Agricultural Engineering, Agricultural Production, Agricultural Skills
Brady, L. Ray, Jr.; Keskulla, Jean – 1977
This Unified Sciences and Mathematics for Elementary Schools (USMES) unit challenges students to grow plants and to determine some purpose for their use (transplanting, selling, gifts). The challenge is general enough to apply to many problem-solving situations in mathematics, science, social science, and language arts at any elementary school…
Descriptors: Botany, Elementary Education, Elementary School Mathematics, Elementary School Science
Fisher, Harold S.; And Others – 1976
This is the final volume of a four-volume report of a research project designed to (1) identify job needs for agricultural occupations which will result from the Muskegon County Wastewater Management System and perform a task analysis on each occupation, (2) develop instructional modules and determine their place in either high school or 2-year…
Descriptors: Agribusiness, Agricultural Education, Agricultural Machinery Occupations, Agricultural Occupations
Post, John O., Jr.; And Others – 1978
The purpose of this document is to describe project DECIDE, a business enterprise career exploration program, in the form of an implementation handbook. Chapter 1 presents the major characteristics of the model, which focuses on providing special needs students and regular junior high students the opportunity to improve their personal, social, and…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Business Education, Career Education, Career Exploration
Illinois State Office of Education, Springfield. – 1975
These experimental curriculum materials, from one of five clusters developed for the occupational orientation program in Illinois, include a series of learning activity packages (LAPs) designed to acquaint the student with the wide range of occupational choices available in the applied biological and agricultural occupations. The 30 LAPs, each…
Descriptors: Agribusiness, Agricultural Machinery Occupations, Agricultural Occupations, Agricultural Production
Florida State Univ., Tallahassee. Center for Instructional Development and Services. – 1991
This vocational program guide is intended to assist in the organization, operation, and evaluation of a program in environmental horticulture in school districts, area vocational centers, and community colleges. The following topics are covered: program content and structure (job titles and curriculum framework and student performance standards);…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Behavioral Objectives, Competency Based Education, Educational Equipment
Department of Agriculture, Washington, DC. Office of Governmental and Public Affairs. – 1978
This booklet, one in a series about life on modern farms, describes the daily lives of three orange growers in Florida and one in California. Two of the Florida orange growers also have other jobs, one as manager of a citrus cooperative and the other as a citrus insurance salesman. The operations of orange groves, the care and picking of oranges,…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Agricultural Production, Agronomy, Business Skills
Leonard, David – 1987
Written in French, this manual, which deals with traditional field crops, is primarily designed to help Peace Corps volunteers develop and strengthen their agricultural skills. The focus of the manual is on surveying and interpreting local agricultural environment and individual farm units, developing agricultural extension techniques and…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Agricultural Production, Agricultural Skills, Agronomy
Leonard, David – 1981
Written in Spanish, this manual, which deals with traditional field crops, is primarily designed to help Peace Corps volunteers develop and strengthen their agricultural skills. The focus of the manual is on surveying and interpreting local agricultural environment and individual farm units, developing agricultural extension techniques and…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Agricultural Production, Agricultural Skills, Agronomy
McClay, David R. – 1978
The nationwide study reported here was designed to (1) identify the essential agricultural competencies needed for entry employment and advancement in the major agriculture and agribusiness occupations and (2) validate the importance of identified competencies for each occupation. Following a brief project summary, the remainder of the report is…
Descriptors: Agribusiness, Agricultural Engineering, Agricultural Occupations, Agricultural Production
Ohio State Univ., Columbus. Vocational Instructional Materials Lab. – 1992
Developed through a modified DACUM (Developing a Curriculum) process involving business, industry, labor, and community agency representatives in Ohio, this document is a comprehensive and verified employer competency profile for forest industry occupations. The list contains units (with and without subunits), competencies, and competency builders…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Competence, Competency Based Education, Conservation (Environment)
Copeland, Harlan G.; Barber, Shirley L. – 1987
Eight focus groups were interviewed to determine the current strengths and weaknesses of the Ramsey County Extension Service as well as the directions that the service should take in the future so as to meet the county's needs for extension education in urban and suburban settings. The focus groups included extension professionals and support…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Consumer Education, County Programs, Educational Needs