what is a sae?
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What is a SAE?. Supervised Agricultural Experience (SAE) Programs consist of planned practical activities conducted outside of class time in which students develop and apply agricultural knowledge and skills. Examples of SAE Projects. Operating a lawn care business Raising show rabbits - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
What is a SAE?What is a SAE?
Supervised Agricultural Experience (SAE) Programs consist of planned practical activities conducted outside of conducted outside of class timeclass time in which students develop and apply agricultural knowledge and skills.
Examples of SAE Projects
Operating a lawn Operating a lawn care businesscare business
Raising show Raising show rabbitsrabbits
Working at a Working at a nurserynursery
Growing a Growing a vegetable gardenvegetable garden
LandscapingLandscaping
Working at a Working at a dairy farmdairy farm
Operating a pet Operating a pet sitting servicesitting service
Working with a Working with a veterinarianveterinarian
Improving Improving wildlife habitatwildlife habitat
Why Have a SAE Project?
Develop skills that can be used in getting a job
Earn moneymoneyWin FFA awards!
(FFA proficiency awards are based on your SAE)
Develop skills to start your own business
Obtain skills and knowledge that will be helpful in college
More Reasons for SAE!
Learn more about possible careers
Develop management skillsLearn how to keep accurate records
Advance in the FFA (FFA degrees are based on your SAE)
Improve decision making skillsDevelop skills that can be used as a hobby or for recreation.
One More Reason for SAE!
It can make a profound impact in YOUR life!
Experiential Learning
““All genuine education All genuine education comes about through comes about through
experience.”experience.”John Dewey
Cone of Learning (Edgar Dale)
Doing the Real Thing
Simulating the Real Experience
Doing a Dramatic Presentation
Giving a Talk
Participating in a Discussion
Seeing It Done on Location
Watching a Demonstration
Looking at an Exhibit
Watching a Movie
Looking at Pictures
Hearing Words
Reading
Nature of Involvement
Passive
Active
Receiving/Participating
Doing
Visual Receiving
Verbal Receiving
After 2 weekswe tend to remember...
10% of what we read
20% of what we hear
30% of what we see
50% of what we hear and see
70% of whatwe say
90% ofwhat wesay anddo
Edgar Dale, Audio-Visual Methods in Teaching (3rd Edn.), Holt, Rinehart, and Winston (1969).
SAE Model
Exploratory
Entrepreneurship
Placement
Research
Improvement
Supplementary
Instruction
in and
about
Agriculture
Supervised Agricultural Experience
Employment
and/or
Additional
Education
Leading to a
Career in
Agriculture
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Agricultural
Literacy
• Experimental• Non-Experimental
What is the legal basis for SAE?
The Smith-Hughes Act of 1917The Smith-Hughes Act of 1917 (a federal law) required all students in agriculture classes to have "directed or supervised practice in agriculture.”
Ag Ed Education Model
Instruction
SAE FFA
Each side of a triangle provides support for the structure.
Types of SAE Types of SAE ProgramsPrograms
Entrepreneurship
Planning, implementing, operating and assuming financial risks in an agricultural businessbusiness or farming activity raising animals, running a lawn care
business, operating a farm stand
•In Entrepreneurship programs, the student owns the materials and other required inputs and keeps financial records to determine return to investments.
Entrepreneurship Activities:
Running a pet sitting or dog walking business
Preparing animals for show Selling hanging baskets Building and selling chicken coops Raising fiber animals
Growing & selling plants in the school greenhouse
Owning and operating a lawn care service
Raising and selling rabbits Growing herbs/vegetables and selling
them at the Farmers Market Build bird houses/feeders/bat houses
& sell
Raising and showing market sheep/pigs/goats
Raising and showing chickens
Raising meat birds/eggs Creating a line of dog/cat
treats or toys Training horses Improve wildlife sanctuary Train dog – good dog/
Therapy
Placement Placement programs involve the
placement of students in JOBSJOBS such as on farms and ranches, agricultural businesses, school laboratories or with community organziations to provide a "learning by doing" environment. = WORK
Remember, SAE projects are done outside of normal classroom hours
may be paid or non-paid.
Placement Activities:
Placement at a nursery (Wards)Working after school at a farm supply store or Petstore
Working at a riding stableVolunteering with a wildlife rehabilator
Working on a farm Working at a Vet’s office Volunteering at a local Animal Shelter
Working at the farmers market
Placement activities
Hancock Shaker Village Local farms!! Berkshire Grown Keep Berkshires Farming Co-Op, Guido’s, Big Y, PriceChopper –
meat dept, produce dept, florist Working at an Agricultural non-profit
organization
Farms!
Wolfe Spring Farm Moon in the Pond Pine Island Farm Taft farm Turner farm Kinderhook Farm Twin Rivers farm Will Conklin’s farm Equinox farm
The Meat Market Indian Line farm Ward’s nursery Windy Hill Farm Girl Farm Howden Project Native Fish Hatchery High Lawn Farm North Plain Farm
Improvement SAE’s
Improve your home, neighborhood, community, school or place of business. Can involve:
Landscaping Container gardens Picking up trash Setting up recycling/compost Signage
A training agreementtraining agreement signed by student, teacher, employer and parent/guardian stating which each will do, record of work, hours and compensation
must be completed.
Experimental
An extensive activity where the student plans and conducts a major agricultural experiment using the scientific process or scientific methodscientific method
The purpose of the experiment is to provide students "hands-on" experience in: 1. Verifying, learning or demonstrating scientific principles in agriculture.
2. Discovering new knowledge. 3. Using the scientific process.
Experimental SAE Examples:
Comparing the effect of various planting media on plant growth
Determining the impact of different levels of protein on fish growth
Comparing three rooting hormones on root development
Comparing fertilizersDetermining if phases of the moon have an effect on plant growth
Animal behavior observations & training methods
AnalyticalIdentify an agricultural problemproblem that cannot be solved by experiments and design a plan to investigate and analyze the problem such as a marketing display.
The student gathers and evaluates data from a variety of sources and then produce some type of finished product.
Analytical Activities:
A marketing plan for an agricultural commodity
A series of newspaper articles about an agricultural issue
Creating awareness for adoptions/spay and neutering pets
A land use plan for a farmA community recycling plan
An advertising campaign for an agribusiness
ExploratoryExploratory SAE activities are designed primarily to help students become literate in agriculture and/or become aware of possible careers in agriculture.
ExploratoryExploratory Helps students learn about agriculture and become aware of possible agricultural careerscareers through short times spent observing, shadowing or helping such as attending a career day, interviewing a veterinarian or assisting a horse owner.
Exploratory SAE activities are appropriate for beginning agricultural students
Exploratory Activities:
Observing and/or assisting
Job shadowing and interviewing
Assisting on a horse farm for a day
Interviewing an agricultural loan officer in a bank
Preparing a scrapbook on the work of an animal behaviorist
Attending an agricultural career day at the university
Group Activity!
1. Get into groups of 3-4 and make a list of feasible SAE projects that you could do this semester (specific farms, businesses, home projects, experiments etc…)
2. Each group will add their ideas to the board, discuss as a class.
3. After discussing the ideas, eliminating non-feasible and duplicates, you will then create classroom posters listing all your great ideas!
4. Put up in room