May 4-8

1st Period:
Monday-Friday: Take care of chicks (feed, water, proper temperature)
Avian Digestion System
Powerpoint and Guided notes

2nd Period
Monday: Senior Trip
Tuesday-Friday: Scholarship applications and Montana Farming Game


3rd Period:
Monday-Tuesday: Study for Social Studies test (Constitution) and English test (Modifiers). Science homework
Wednesday-Friday: Students will be gone on the History Field Trip

4th Period:
Monday-Friday: Horseshoe projects and Tomato Plant transplanting/maintaining

5th Period:
Monday-Friday: Students are fabricating gate latches for a local ranch

7th Period: 
Monday-Friday: Preschool Chicken Project

1st Period
Daily checks of chicken incubation process (checking temperature, humidity, observing eggs)

Digestion Unit: Mono-gastric and Ruminant Digestive Systems
PowerPoint and guided notes

2nd Period
Thank you letters for State FFA Convention Sponsors

Continue creating Montana Farming/Ranching game

3rd Period
Study for quizzes/tests (Science and Spelling tests this week)
Homework/Read

4th Period
Horseshoe projects

5th Period
Horseshoe projects

7th Period 
Continue reading Chapter 8: Wildlife and the Forest

April 7-10

1st Period

Monday: No School
Tuesday: Set up Egg Incubator
Wednesday: Read and go over "Hatching Eggs: A Step by Step Guide" and "Hatching Eggs in the Classroom"
Thursday: Speakers from  Montana Conservation Corps Youth Expedition Program
Friday: Receive chicken eggs and begin incubation


2nd Period

Monday: No School 
Tuesday: Montana Farming Game (continue with rules and creating game)
Wednesday: Montana Farming Game (continue with rules and creating game)
Thursday:Speakers from  Montana Conservation Corps Youth Expedition Program
Friday:Montana Farming Game (continue with rules and creating game)

3rd Period

Monday: No School 
Tuesday: Homework/study/read
Wednesday: Study for Spelling Test
Thursday:Speakers from  Montana Conservation Corps Youth Expedition Program
Friday: Homework/Study/Read

4th Period

Monday: No School 
Tuesday: Horseshoe projects
Wednesday: Horseshoe projects
Thursday:Speakers from  Montana Conservation Corps Youth Expedition Program
Friday: Horseshoe projects

5th Period

Monday: No School 
Tuesday: Horseshoe projects
Wednesday:Horseshoe projects
Thursday:Speakers from  Montana Conservation Corps Youth Expedition Program
Friday:Horseshoe projects

7th Period

Monday: No School 
Tuesday: Chapter 8: Wildlife and the Forest (define terms)
Wednesday: Read Chapter 8
Thursday:Speakers from  Montana Conservation Corps Youth Expedition Program
Friday: Read Chapter 8

March 2-6

1st Period
Monday-Friday: Work on Livestock Breeds Project

2nd Period
Monday-Friday: Farm Business Management preparation and Hall of Chapter for FFA State Convention preparation

3rd Period
Monday: Science Vocab words/homework/read
Tuesday: Science Vocab words/homework/read
Wednesday: Homework/Read/Study for Spelling Test
Thursday: Study for Science test (Chapter 7) and Spelling Test
Friday: Study for Science Test (Chapter 7) and Spelling Test

4th Period:
Monday-Tuesday: Finish Landscape Design Projects
Wednesday: Ski Day
Thursday-Friday: Begin research on Coldframe designs

5th Period
Monday-Friday: CleanTech competition (papers need to be submitted to CleanTech.org by Friday at 4 pm)

7th Period
Monday-Friday: Chapter 7: Fire and the Forests

February 23-27

This week is National FFA Week!

1st Period
Monday-Friday: Livestock Breeds Project

2nd Period
Monday-Friday: FFA Week Activities and preparation


3rd Period
Monday: Homework/Read
Tuesday: Spelling Bee
Wednesday: Study for Spelling test and Social Studies test (Chapter 3 and 4-English Colonies)
Thursday: Study for Spelling test and Social Studies test (Chapter 3 and 4-English Colonies)
Friday: Homework/Read

4th Period
Monday-Friday: Landscape Design Project

5th Period
Monday-Friday: CleanTech Project

6th Period
Monday-Friday: Chapter 7

February 9-13

1st Period: Animal Science

Monday-Friday: Livestock Breeds Project

2nd Period: Wildlife Management

Monday-Tuesday: FFA State Convention Nomination Committee applications
Wednesday-Friday: Work on Montana Farming Game

3rd Period: 7th Grade Study Skills

Monday: Study for Science Test 

Tuesday: Study for Science Test 

Wednesday: Junior High Ski Day 

Thursday: Study for Spelling Test 

Friday:Homework/Read/Study for tests or quizzes

4th Period: Plant Science

Monday: Plant of the Week
Tuesday-Friday: Landscape Design Project
Friday: Plant of the Week Quiz 3

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-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-Friday: Chapter 7: Fire and the Forest

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