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12 Feb 2025

Careers on the Farm: Working Together

August-June

Join us on the farm to learn more about agricultural careers. Students will explore garden and equine job skills as well as discover the power of team building in a collaborative work environment.

Agricultural and Environmental Systems Content Standards:

1.1.1. Identify the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to succeed in careers.
1.1.2. Identify the scope of career opportunities and the requirements for education, training, certification, licensure, and experience.
1.1.6. Explain the importance of work ethic, accountability, and responsibility and demonstrate associated behaviors in fulfilling personal, community, and workplace roles.
1.1.7. Apply problem-solving and critical-thinking skills to work-related issues when making decisions and formulating solutions.
1.1.8. Identify the correlation between emotions, behavior, and appearance and manage those to establish and maintain professionalism.
1.1.9. Give and receive constructive feedback to improve work habits.

Animal Science, Outcome 2.3 Care and Management:

2.3.1. Identify species-specific terminology (gender, age, reproductive status).
2.3.3. Determine the biotic and abiotic factors (e.g. air, ventilation) that impact the animal’s environment.
2.3.8. Evaluate and perform animal care procedures aligned with industry standards throughout the life of the animal.
2.3.9. Monitor and evaluate the quality of an animal’s habitat and implement corrective methods as needed.

Ohio Standards:

Financial Literacy.
- 3. Competencies (knowledge and skills), commitment (motivation and enthusiasm), competition (globalization and automation), training, work ethic, abilities and attitude are all factors impacting one’s earning potential and employability.

Vocabulary:

careers, accountability, responsibility, training, certification, licensure, biotic and abiotic factors, globalization, automation, employability

11 Feb 2025

Careers on the Farm: Garden

August-June

Have you ever wondered what it takes to run a successful garden? What skills or experience are needed to become a farmer? Explore with us to learn what farmers do day-to-day to keep the flowers and vegetables growing in our production garden. Students will gain insight into this career to explore their own options for the future!

Agricultural and Environmental Systems Content Standards:

1.1.1. Identify the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to succeed in careers.
6.1.4. Identify and describe factors (e.g., climate, soil texture, mineralogy, soil organisms, drainage co-efficient, land use, vegetation types, management practices) affecting organic matter and its function in soil quality.

Ohio Standards:

Financial Literacy
- 3. Competencies (knowledge and skills), commitment (motivation and enthusiasm), competition (globalization and automation), training, work ethic, abilities and attitude are all factors impacting one’s earning potential and employability.

Indiana and NGSS Standards:

HS-LS2-6. Evaluate claims, evidence, and reasoning that the complex interactions in ecosystems maintain relatively consistent numbers and types of organisms in stable conditions, but changing conditions may result in a new ecosystem.

Ohio Social Studies Standards:

Economics and Financial Literacy – Working and Earning: Income is determined by many factors including individual skills and abilities, work ethic and market conditions
Geography – Environment and Society: Human societies use a variety of strategies to adapt to the opportunities and constraints presented by the physical environment (e.g., farming in flood plains and terraced farming, building hydroelectric plants by waterfalls and constructing hydroelectric dams, using solar panels as heat source and using extra insulation to retain heat).

Vocabulary:

Production Garden, Garden Manager, Garden Field Coordinator, Garden Apprentice, Harvest, Ley Rotation, Greenhouse, Agriculture n

08 Feb 2025

Equine Husbandry

August-June

Taking care of animals is a lot of work! Students will learn what goes into taking care of a herd of horses. They will get hands-on experience in equine husbandry to better understand what it means to be an animal caretaker.

Ohio Career Tech Standards:

2.3.9. Monitor and evaluate the quality of an animal’s habitat and implement corrective methods as needed.
2.3.10. Recognize common restraints and tack devices for handling including their use and adjustments.
2.3.11. Groom animals through brushing, bathing, and therapeutic treatments.
2.3.12. Assess the nails and hooves of animals and understand the practice of trimming and treating for specific species.
2.3.13. Compare and contrast different standards of grooming and styling techniques for specific animal species and breeds.
2.2.1. Describe external anatomical parts and their functions within different species.
2.2.7. Describe the components of the cardiovascular system and their functions, including factors affecting blood flow.
2.2.10. Identify and describe the function and components of the respiratory system and pulmonary ventilation and the factors influencing respiratory rates.
2.1.1 Identify the traditional and alternative types, compositions, quality, and compatibility of feedstuff, feed additives, and feed byproducts.
2.1.2. Describe the role of nutrients and nutritional requirements of different animal life processes and species.
2.2.2. Compare and contrast the anatomical parts of the digestive system(s) and describe their physiology within different species.

Vocabulary:

Curry comb, hardbrush, hoof pick, frog, sole, whiteline, horseshoe, corium, coffin bone, lamina, hoof wall, heel bulbs, abscess, withers, laminitis, roughages, concentrates, bolus, colic, pasture rotation, foregut, hindgut, manure

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