1. Unit 5 Supervised Agricultural Experience
Learn the rationale for and plan a supervised agricultural experience.
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2. Introduction Simulate: to look or act like
Real-world experience: activity in the daily routine of society
On-the-job training: experience obtained while working in a job setting
Supervised agricultural experience (SAE)

3. Supervised Agricultural Experience (SAE)
All supervised agricultural experiences: learned outside of the regularly scheduled classroom or laboratory
Supervised
Looked after and directed
Agriscience
Business, employment, or trade in agriculture, agribusiness, or renewable natural resources
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4. Supervised Agricultural Experience (SAE) (cont’d.)
Anything and everything observed, done, or lived through
SAE categories include: Placement, Research, Entrepreneurship, Experimentation, and Exploratory
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5. Purpose of SAEs
Provide opportunities to creatively explore agriscience careers
Provide educational and practical experiences in a specialized area of agriscience
Provide opportunities to become established in an agriscience occupation

6. Purpose of SAEs (cont’d.)
Provide opportunities for earning while learning
Create opportunities for earning after graduation
Develop interests in additional areas of agriscience
Develop valuable work skills

7. Purpose of SAEs (cont’d.)
Encourage individualized instruction
Ensure recognition for individual achievement
Become established in an agriscience business
Obtain experience as an entrepreneur

8. Agri-Profile Career area: supervised agricultural experience
Three important elements
Experience: hands-on or real-life activities in the workplace
Agricultural: setting and skills in an area of plant or animal sciences and related natural resources or management
Supervised: teacher, parents, and/or employer help direct the experience
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9. Agri-Profile (cont’d.)
Career area: supervised agricultural experience
Obtaining a position: assistance through school programs; self-initiative
Participants: gain an edge in the job market

10. SAE and the Total Agriscience Program

11. SAE and the Total Agriscience Program (cont’d.)
SAE and classroom instruction
SAE and the FFA
FFA and classroom instruction
Proficiency awards: refer to FFA Student Handbook
American Star Awards Program
American Star in Agriscience, American Star in Agribusiness, American Star in Agricultural Placement, and American Star Farmer awards
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12. Types of SAEs Project Enterprise Exploratory
Series of activities related to a single objective or enterprise
Enterprise
Refers to a business that raises animals or plants
Exploratory
Agriscience literacy
Career exploration

13. Types of SAEs (cont’d.) Research/experimentation and analysis
Agriscience research project: scientific method applied
Ownership/entrepreneurship
Production enterprise: produces raw materials, e.g., crops or livestock
Placement SAE
Agriscience internship
Improvement activities

14. Science Connection
Agriscience research project: agriscience student in Meridian, Idaho
Motivated by a newspaper article: polluted waters of the Snake River
Researched contamination of surface water in the delivery and drainage canals of a large irrigation project
Data indicated pollution was not runoff water from irrigated fields

15. Agriscience Skills Plan and Profile
Agriscience skills profile: record and competence measure of a student’s skills
Provides record of employment skills
Documents ability to perform skills

16. Agriscience Skills Plan and Profile (cont’d.)
Most useful and interesting skills
Gained through supervised agriculture experience
Skills list helps develop the agriscience skills plan and profile
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17. Exploring Opportunities for the SAEs
Personal interest
Important factor in SAE success
Student Interest Survey or Inventory helps assess interest
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18. Exploring Opportunities for the SAEs (cont’d.)
Resources inventory
List of assets and help sources for SAE activities
Relies on home, farm, work setting, and community information
Includes scale drawing: property where living or working
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19. Selecting and Implementing Your SAE
Overall approach
Conference with teacher
Record tentative SAE plans
Securing a job
Brief resumé
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20. Hot Topics in Agriscience
SAE—inside the dairy business
Dairy Heifer Replacement Project: goal of enhancing life skills of youth participants
Participant: purchases heifer calf from a program-approved seller
Over several months: participant cares for the animal (feed, vaccinations, etc.)
Detailed records maintained
In some cases: bred and presented for show and sale
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21. Selecting and Implementing Your SAE (cont’d.)
Refining the plan
Develop accurate estimates: anticipated expenses and income
Prepare an Experience Inventory: update frequently
Finalize the plans for placement: Placement Agreement document
Track the project progress: Improvement Project Plan and Summary
Record acquired skills: Agriscience Skills Plan and Record
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22. Science Connection Tracking the disappearing gene
USDA Agriculture Research Service (ARS)
Thomas E. Devine, plant geneticist of the USDA-ARS plant molecular biology laboratory in Beltsville, Maryland
High school research opportunities: genes responsible for disease resistance and nitrogen fixation in soybeans
Other USDA-ARS labs and research assistance opportunities available