This document contains lesson plans for a four-unit course in agriculture for sustainable development and is accompanied by a video tape and a booklet that discusses existing and future agricultural practices. Each unit of the document contains some or all of the following components: an introduction; objectives and competencies addressed; a list of equipment, supplies, references, and other resources; three or four learning activities; a question-and-answer game based on the format of the television game show "Jeopardy"; problem-solving techniques; illustrations of agricultural operations; material safety data sheet examples; and sample newspaper articles. The topics of the four units are as follows: (1) sustainable agriculture (investigation and analysis of agricultural practices as related to conservation tillage and best management practices); (2) innovative chemistry and conservation tillage (advantages and disadvantages of pesticide applications and the interrelationship of herbicide use with conservation tillage); (3) genetically improved plants (implications of genetically improved plants to our society and for agriculture on a global basis); and (4) Third World impact and global stability (the economic importance and interdependency of agriculture throughout the world). (MN)