This course allows students to develop knowledge and skills regarding career opportunities, personal development, globalization, industry standards, details, practices, and expectations. To prepare for success, students need to have opportunities to learn, reinforce experience, apply, and transfer their knowledge and skills in a variety of settings. The student will have an opportunity to: identify career development and entrepreneurship opportunities in the field of agriculture, food, and natural resources, including how to search for and obtain employment, what qualifications are required for varying career fields, and how to advance in a position; identify careers in agriculture, food, and natural resources with required aptitudes in science, mathematics, language arts, and social studies; apply competencies related to resources, information, interpersonal skills, problem solving, critical thinking, and systems of operation in agriculture, food, and natural resources; demonstrate knowledge of personal and occupational safety, health, and first-aid policy in the workplace; develop response plans to emergency situations; and identify employers' expectations, including appropriate work habits, ethical conduct, legal responsibilities, and good citizenship skills.
The student develops a supervised agriculture experience program as it relates to agriculture, food, and natural resources. The student will have an opportunity to: plan, propose, conduct, and evaluate entrepreneurship; placement; exploratory; research, either experimental or analytical; improvement; supplementary; laboratory-based; or other identified, supervised agricultural experience as an experiential learning activity; apply proper record-keeping skills as they relate to the supervised agricultural experience; design and use a customized record-keeping system for the individual supervised agricultural experience; participate in youth leadership opportunities to create a well-rounded-experience program in agriculture; and produce a challenging approach for a local program of activities in agriculture, food, and natural resources.
The student demonstrates appropriate personal and communication skills. The student will given an opportunity to:
describe professional, ethical, and legal responsibilities; demonstrate the uses of proper etiquette and behavior; identify appropriate personal appearance and health habits; practice written and oral communication skills and employ effective listening skills in formal and informal situations; analyze written materials common to the agricultural industry; demonstrate sound writing and preparation skills for oral presentations, including prepared and extemporaneous presentations; and demonstrate effective speaking skills.
The student applies appropriate research methods to agriculture, food, and natural resources topics. The student will be given an opportunity to: define major research and development fields of agriculture, food, and natural resources;
identify and apply research in the food and fiber products industries; use a variety of resources for both research and development; and describe scientific methods of research.
The student applies problem-solving, mathematical, and organizational skills in order to plan and propose supervised agricultural experience programs as well as maintain financial and logistical records. The student will be given an opportunity to: develop project proposals by using business strategies which may include identifying learning objectives; describing project logistics, methodologies, and background; forecasting expenses and potential income through budgeting; and planning for major project timeline events through calendar implementation and documentation; develop and maintain records appropriate to project type following project approval; maintain appropriate financial records through use and management of appropriate journals, inventories, income and expense logs, financial statements, and balance sheets; and conduct formative and summative reflective and financial analyses on project learning objectives and records in order to plan for the future ,use information technology tools specific to agriculture, food, and natural resource to access, manage, integrate, and create information.

Queen City High School
Joe Thompson