September 28-October 2nd

 1st Period: Junior High Agriculture

Monday:

Ruler Worksheet 

Shop safety tests

Go over tools in the shop/demonstrate use of equipment and tools 

Livestock judging practice

Drawing plans for shop project 

Wednesday:

Safety Tests

Begin working in shop 

YE buck Auction 

7th Period: Floriculture

Monday: 

Finish and test structures (built out of marshmallows and noodles) 

Decide what flowers/colors to use for bud vase arrangement 

Sculpt bud vases using plasticine 

Water garden/transplant seeds if time

Pass out permission slips (to walk to Garden Shop) 

Wednesday: 

Walk to Garden Shop and get flowers

Create arrangement (bud vase with roses and/or carnations) 

Floral Portfolio 

HOM (Harvest of the Month)-brassicas 

5th Period: Ag Welding

Tuesday: 

Career Profile Project 

Oxy-Actylene welding with rod (plate of beads, T-joint, lap weld) 

Thursday: 

Career Profile Project 

Oxy-Actylene welding with rod (plate of beads, T-joint, lap weld) 

September 21-25

 1st Period: Junior High Agriculture

Monday:

9:00-10:00: Check out books in library and read to Kindergarten class

10:00-11:30: Learn about the dairy industry (cattle, sheep, goats) 

11:30-noon: Walk to Branding Iron to buy ice cream and support the dairy industry 

Wednesday:

Harvest of the month activity: Brassicas and the plant life cycle booklet 

YE Activity 

Shop Safety 

7th Period: Floriculture

Monday: 

Chapter 8: Review Chapter and answer questions 1-3, 5-7 and 9.  Answer Critical Thinking Question #1 

Create color wheel and complete color harmonies activity 

Structure building activity 

Go over Chapter 3 if time 

Check and water garden/transplant germinated seeds 

Wednesday: 

12:45-1:50:  Chapter 3 and Bud vases (overview of assignment/rubric, show examples and decide what flowers and vase students want to use) 

1:50-2:30: Read to 1st graders in the library 

2:30-3:40: Use plasticine to create model (maquette) of bud vase arrangement 

**Harvest of the Month : brassicas life cycle booklet (if time) 

5th Period: Ag Welding

Tuesday: 

Oxy-Actylene welding with rod

Thursday: 

Oxy-Actylene welding with rod

YE Activity 

September 14-18th

 1st Period: Junior High Ag

Monday: 

Daily Agtivity Questions

Aquaculture lesson (learn about various aquaculture operations and perform over-fishing simulation) 

Tower Building Research 

Check germinating seeds and check school garden 

Wednesday:

Daily Agtivity Questions

Tower Building activity 

SAE-PowerPoint and guided notes (Supervised Agriculutral Experience) 

Logon to AET.com and update profiles and enter SAE info

 7th Period: Foriculture

Monday: 

Daily Agtivity Questions

Finish History of Floral Design Posters

Present posters

Review Chapters 6-8 in textbook 

Discussion and guided notes/answer questions regarding the chapters

Check germinating seeds and check school garden 

Wednesday:

Daily Agtivity Questions

Finish Chapters 6-8 

Color Wheel 

Chapter 3 (if time) 

Check germinating seeds and check school garden 

5th Period: Ag Welding 

Tuesday:

Safety tests 

Go over welds to be graded for Oxy-acetylene welding 

Begin cutting metal and start oxy-acetylene welding 

Thursday:

Oxy-acetylene welding (various joints with and without rod) 

September 7th-11th

 Monday: NO SCHOOL 

Tuesday:

5th Period Ag Welding (12:45-3:40) 

Welding symbols and blueprints review (practice worksheet) 

Take safety tests (general shop safety, grinder, ironworker, metal band saw, and chop saw)

Heat Treatment demo (affects of heat on different types of metal)

Oxy-Acetylene worksheet (goes along with the class textbook) 

Oxy-Acetylene set up demo 

Wednesday:

1st Period: Junior High Ag (9:00am-12:10)

Daily Agtivity Journal Entry 

Virtual Farm Tour (students will watch farm tour and answer guided questions) 

Garden work (compost, label plants, remove rocks/debris/garbage) 

11:00am: student council speeches and elections 

YE Buck Auction 

7th Period: Floriculture (12:45-3:40) 

Daily Agtivity Journal Entry

History of Floral Design Project

Transplant plants to school garden 

YE Buck Auction 

Thursday:

5th Period: Ag Welding (12:45-3:40pm) 

Safety Tests

Begin Oxy-acetylene welding (stringer beads on a plate) 

YE Buck Auction 

August 31-September 4th

1st Period: Junior High Ag

Monday: Daily Agtivity  (Students will keep a journal that they write in everyday, answering an ag related question or writing about an ag related topic)

Introduction to YE (youth entrepreneurship)  bucks- classroom currency earned through various activities that can be spent on weekly auctions 

"Importance of Plants"-interactive lesson/discussion

What is germination?

Discuss a variety of seeds and their growth requirements (students will complete an interactive worksheet during this) 

Plant seeds

Wednesday: Daily Agtivity 

YE Buck activity (students will have an opportunity to earn YE bucks through this activity)

Make Harvest of the Month (cherry) recipe 

7th Period: Floriculture 

Monday: Daily Agtivity  (Students will keep a journal that they write in everyday, answering an ag related question or writing about an ag related topic)

Introduction to YE (youth entrepreneurship)  bucks- classroom currency earned through various activities that can be spent on weekly auctions 

"Importance of Plants"-interactive lesson/discussion

What is germination?

Discuss a variety of seeds and their growth requirements (students will complete an interactive worksheet during this) 

Transplant plugs into school garden

Wednesday: Daily Agtivia Journal Entry 

YE Buck activity (students will have an opportunity to earn YE bucks through this activity)

History of Floral Design Project 

Make Harvest of the Month (cherry) recipe 

5th Period: Ag Welding

Tuesday: 

Introduction to YE (youth entrepreneurship)  bucks- classroom currency earned through various activities that can be spent on weekly auctions 

Chapter 29:Heat Treatment of Metals 

Introduction to Blueprints and Reading symbols (if time allows) 

Thursday:

YE Buck activity-Paper Airplane Factory  (students will have an opportunity to earn YE bucks through this activity)

Introduction to Blueprints and Reading symbols (PowerPoint and guided notes along with short quiz at the end of the period if time allows) 

***Online learners, please check your emails for this week's assignments***

August 26-28th

 Wednesday August 26th 

1st Period: Junior High Ag 9:00am-noon

Welcome Back! 

Syllabus/Class Procedures

Handbook changes 

Harvest of the Month: Cherries (lesson about cherries and cherry production in Montana)

Work in school garden (prune, pull weeds, stir ansdayd water compost) 

7th Period: Floriculture 12:45-3:40 

Welcome Back!

Syllabus/Class Procedures

Harvest of the Month: Cherries

Go over seeds to germinate and plant seeds

Work in garden (pull weeds) 

Thursday August 27th 

5th Period: Ag Welding 12:45-3:40

Welcome Back! 

Syllabus/Class procedures

Dual Enrollment through Gallatin College

Metallurgy lesson 

March 16-20

Students please check your school emails for your schoolwork for the next two weeks.

1st Period: Junior High Ag
Monday: Welcome to Ag class, syllabus (signed syllabus due Friday), class routine, intro to YE bucks
Tuesday: Ted Talk Tuesday, importance of Agriculture
Wednesday: Paper Airplane Factory
Thursday: Livestock Poster
Friday: Livestock Poster

1st Period: Floriculture 
Monday: Nutriental and Environmental Deficiencies and work on Agriscience experiment Agriscience Plant diseases and insects and pests
Tuesday: St. Patrick's Day candy arrangement
Wednesday-Friday: Plant Diseases, Insects and Pests (PowerPoint and guided notes)

3rd Period: Animal Science
Monday-Friday: Hall of Chapter display, Scrapbook for state FFA and agriscience experiment

4th Period: Greenhouse Management
Monday: Guest speaker: Montana Conservation Corp
Tuesday-Friday: STEM activity

5th Period: Ag Welding
Monday-Friday: Last week to work on GMAW joints

6th Period: Ag Woods
Monday-Friday: Various Woodworking projects