December 14-18

 1st Period: Junior High Ag

Monday and Wednesday:

Work in Shop on individual wood projects 

Harvest of the month: Dairy (if time on Wednesday)

7th Period: Floriculture 

Monday:

AET Accounts 

Harvest of the Month: Dairy (virtual farm tour of a dairy farm) 

Christmas Arrangement Prep work 

Farming Game (if time) 

Wednesday:

Walk to flower shop to get flowers

Create Christmas floral arrangements

Floral Portfolio

Make Ice cream (if time) 

5th Period: Ag Welding

Tuesday:

Welding Careers (watch video)

SMAW (various Joints) 

GMAW (various joints)

Individual shop projects (gate latches, can crusher, greenhouse heater, stools, artwork) 

Thursday:

SMAW (various Joints) 

GMAW (various joints)

Individual shop projects (gate latches, can crusher, greenhouse heater, stools, artwork) 

December 7-11

 1st Period: Junior High Ag

Monday:

Kahoot (Shop Safety) 

Shop Safety Tests

Begin working in shop on various woodworking projects 

Wednesday:

Shop Safety Tests (if any students need to re-take tests)

Work in shop on various woodworking projects 

7th Period: Floriculture 

Monday:

Make Squash Pie

Finish AET Accounts (pencil, clipboard, journal entry and financial entry)

Review Farming Game rules and procedures for recording goals

Play Farming Game

Wednesday

Christmas Arrangements (Review page 360 in textbook) 

Draw Christmas arrangement or make clay model

YE Activity

Farming Game (if time) 

5th Period: Ag Welding 

Tuesday:

Welding Career Video 

SMAW (various joints)

GMAW (various joints) 

Individual shop projects (can crusher, greenhouse heater, shop metal stools, gate latches)

Thursday:

AET Accounts (add journal and financial entry)

SMAW (various joints)

GMAW (various joints) 

Individual shop projects (can crusher, greenhouse heater, shop metal stools, gate latches)

November 30-December 4th

 1st Period: Junior High Ag

Monday: 

YE Auction

Reading a Ruler

Drawing to scale worksheet

Drawing plans (Front, side, top, 3-d)

Intro to shop safety 

Wednesday:

Shop safety: go over rules and demo tools

Tool Identification

Nails/Fasteners

Draw blocks

Draw shop plans

YE Activity (if time) 

7th Period: Floriculture 

Monday:

YE Auciton

Extemp Speeches (those who have not presented yet)

Thanksgiving arrangement portfolios

Harvest of the Month-Squash

Tuesday:

Find squash recipes 

AET Accounts: Add SAE's to accounts

YE Activity

Farming Game

Read to 1st graders in library 

5th period: Ag Welding 

Tuesday: 

Ted Talk Tuesday 

SMAW (various joints with 6011,6013,7018 and 7014 rod)

Wednesday:

AET Accounts

SMAW 

November 23-24

 Junior High Ag: 1st Period

Monday: 

9:00-10:00: Review and prepare for activities and lessons with the 3rd grade class

10:00-11:15: Work with 3rd graders for a Harvest of the Month Activity (summer and winter squash) 

11:15-12:10: Turkey Lesson 

Floriculture: 7th Period

Monday: Pick up flowers at flower shop and create cornucopia arrangements 

Social Media documentary on Netflix while making arrangement (if time allows)

Floral Portfolio if time

YE Buck Auction

Ag Welding: 5th Period

Tuesday: 

Weld for half of class and watch Social Media Documentary (The Social Dilema) for other half 

November 16-20

 Junior High Ag: 1st Period

Monday: 

Present Livestock Posters

Aquaculture Lesson (watch videos, fill out Venn Diagram, discuss importance of aquaculture and participate in overfishing activity)

Wildlife Lesson (watch reindeer and alligator farm video) and pick wildlife animal to research 

Wednesday:

YE Buck Auction 

Finish Wildlife Project 

Harvest of the Month: Summer and Winter Squash 

Find squash recipe to make

Go over lesson we will be doing with 3rd grade class next week 

Floriculture: 7th Period

Monday: 

Thanksgiving Arrangements (pick flowers, vases/baskets, create raffle tickets and flyers)

Clay models of Thanksgiving Arrangements

 Extemporaneous speaking

Parli pro  (watch video and practice if time) 

Wednesday: 

Help Mrs. Heggen in the library with the book fair 

Welding: 5th Period

Tuesday: 

Ted Talk Tuesday 

SMAW for welding I students (working on various joints) 

Individual shop projects for Welding II and III (tractor seat stools and can crusher) 

Thursday: 

AET journal entries on Computers 

SMAW for welding I students (working on various joints) 

Individual shop projects for Welding II and III (tractor seat stools and can crusher) 

November 9-13

 Junior High Ag: 1st Period

Monday: Triangle taste test (Food Science and Technology lesson) 

Work on Livestock poster 

Present posters if time 

Wednesday: 

Importance of Plants, Germination and Seed Requirements 

Aquaculture Lesson-Comparing different aquaculture productions/venn diagram/lesson with videos and guided notes/overfishing activity 

Wildlife Lesson (if time) 

Floriculture: 7th Period

Monday: Share brochures with the class

MoneyBowl Activity and go over the 3 markets in the economy

FFA CDE and LDE presentation 

JDAE virtual events for FFA members

Wednesday: Food Science and Technology Lesson (Triangle Test) 

Thanksgiving Arrangements (pick flowers and vases or cornucopias) 

Begin making clay models of arrangements

Ag Welding: 5th Period

Tuesday: MoneyBowl activity and introduce 3 markets of economy

SMAW-go over joints to be completed for the semester

Weld SMAW and Oxy-acetylene 

Thursday: AET journal entries

SMAW and Oxy-acetylene welding (various joints) 

Individual shop projects for Welding II and III (can crusher and welding stools) 

November 2-6

 1st Period: Junior High Agriculture 

Monday: Welcome to Ag! (Go over syllabus and classroom routine)

Introduce YE bucks 

About Me project

Paper Airplane Activity (if time) 

Wednesday: Guest Speaker (MSU AgEd student) to present about FFA

Present About Me presentations 

7th Period: Floriculture

Monday: 

Complete Floral Portfolio for Pumpkin Arrangements

Logon to AET accounts and set up profiles and brainstorm SAE ideas (decide which category your SAE is in) 

Floral Career Brochure 

Wednesday: 

12:45-1:50: Complete Floral Career Brochure

1:50-2:30: Read with 1st graders in library 

2:30-3:40: YE Activity "Money Bowl" and watch John Stossel's Greed video series

Introduce 3 sectors of markets 

5th Period: Ag Welding

Tuesday: Oxy-acetylene and SMAW practice welding

Packet of SMAW joints to be completed will be passed out as well

Thursday: Oxy-acetylene and SMAW welding

YE Activity: "Moneybowl"

Watch Stossel videos

Introduce 3 markets of the economy