February 2-6

1st Period: Animal Science

Monday: AET (agriculture experience tracker) accounts. Students will be filling out records online for their SAE (supervised agriculture experience)
Tuesday: AET (agriculture experience tracker) accounts. Students will be filling out records online for their SAE (supervised agriculture experience)
Wednesday: Livestock Breeds Introduction (Notes page, lecture on breeds, and introduction to project)
Thursday: Livestock Terminolgy Quiz 
Friday: Livestock Breeds Project

2nd Period: Wildlife Management

Monday: AET (agriculture experience tracker) accounts. Students will be filling out records online for their SAE (supervised agriculture experience)
Tuesday-Friday: Work on scholarship applications and continue working on creating Farming/Ranching game specific to Montana 

3rd Period: 7th Grade Study Skills

Monday: Homework, read, study for tests/quizzes. 

Tuesday: Homework/Read/Study for Tests or Quizzes 

Wednesday: Junior High Ski Day 

Thursday: Study for Spelling Test 

Friday:Homework/Read/Study for tests or quizzes

4th Period: Plant Science

Monday:AET (agriculture experience tracker) accounts. Students will be filling out records online for their SAE (supervised agriculture experience)
Tuesday: Plant of the Week (week 3)
Unit 34...read page 405-406 "Principles of Landscape Design"
Wednesday: Landscape Design Project
Thursday: Plant of the Week Quiz (2)
Friday: Landscape Design Project

Landscape Project

1^st- Create a rough draft sketch on notebook paper

2^nd- Research plants- common and scientific name, color and size at maturity (Use Ball Redbook and Introduction to Horticulture books as well as the internet)

3^rd- Final landscape plan!

Requirements:

-        The landscape must take up the entire paper.

-        Plans need to include:

o   A building- can only take up 1/3 of the paper

o   5 different Evergreen plants

o   5 different Deciduous plants

o   3 different Hardscapes- walk way, driveway, deck, pool, pond, fire pit, etc.

o   Bedding area with plants-

§  2 different Ground Cover plants

§  2 different Flowers (annual or perennial)

o   Scale

o   Key- for shapes of plants

o   List of plants- common and scientific name, color and size at maturity

-        Use a pencil on the final plan

-        Sketch must be appropriately colored- LAST STEP!

-        Plans much be neat and orderly- take PRIDE in your work!

-        Be CREATIVE and have FUN!

5th Period: Advanced Agriculture

Monday: AET (agriculture experience tracker) accounts. Students will be filling out records online for their SAE (supervised agriculture experience)

Tuesday-Friday:

Clean Tech Competition (http://www.cleantechcompetition.org/)
In teams of one-three members students will be participating in the 2015 Clean Tech Competition.

From www.cleantechcompetition.org:

"Your challenge is to develop a clean energy solution to help combat this worldwide problem. Solutions may take on aspects of growing, harvesting, distributing food, or any other facet of food availability that you choose to improve. Your team will identify a specific problem, explain and analyze in detail, and design a solution that can be used to help the affected populations."

7th Period: Forestry 

Monday-Tuesday: AET (agriculture experience tracker) accounts. Students will be filling out records online for their SAE (supervised agriculture experience)

Wednesday-Friday: Chapter 7: Fire and the Forest. Read Chapter and discuss material