1. 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.

2. Examples of SAE Projects
Operating a lawn care business
Raising show rabbits
Working at a nursery
Growing a vegetable garden
Landscaping
Working at a dairy farm
Operating a pet sitting service
Working with a veterinarian
Improving wildlife habitat

3. Develop skills that can be used in getting a job Earn money
Why Have a SAE Project?
Develop skills that can be used in getting a job
Earn money
Win FFA awards!
FFA proficiency awards are based on your SAE

4. Develop skills to start your own business
Obtain skills and knowledge that will be helpful in college

5. More Reasons for SAE! Learn more about possible careers
Develop management skills
Learn how to keep accurate records

6. Advance in the FFA (FFA degrees are based on your SAE)
Improve decision making skills
Develop skills that can be used as a hobby or for recreation.

7. One More Reason for SAE!
It can make a profound impact in YOUR life!

8. Experiential Learning
“All genuine education comes about through experience.”
John Dewey

9. Cone of Learning (Edgar Dale)
After 2 weeks
we tend to remember...
Nature of
Involvement
10% of what we read
Reading
Verbal Receiving
20% of what we hear
Hearing Words
30% of what we see
Looking at Pictures
Passive
50% of what we
hear and see
Watching a Movie
Looking at an Exhibit
Visual Receiving
Watching a Demonstration
Seeing It Done on Location
70% of what
we say
Participating in a Discussion
Receiving/
Participating
Giving a Talk
Active
90% of
what we
say and do
Doing a Dramatic Presentation
Doing
Simulating the Real Experience
Doing the Real Thing
Edgar Dale, Audio-Visual Methods in Teaching (3rd Edn.), Holt, Rinehart, and Winston (1969).

10. SAE Model Supervised Agricultural Experience Exploratory
Entrepreneurship
Placement
Research
Improvement
Supplementary
Instruction
in and
about
Agriculture
Supervised Agricultural Experience
Employment
and/or
Additional
Education
Leading to a
Career in
Major SAE Components
Minor SAE Components
Agricultural
Literacy
• Experimental • Non-Experimental

11. What is the legal basis for SAE?
The Smith-Hughes Act of (a federal law) required all students in agriculture classes to have "directed or supervised practice in agriculture.”

12. Ag Ed Education Model SAE FFA Instruction
Each side of a triangle provides support for the structure.
SAE
FFA
Instruction

13. Types of SAE Programs

14. Entrepreneurship
Planning, implementing, operating and assuming financial risks in an agricultural business or farming activity
raising animals, running a lawn care business, operating a farm stand

15. In Entrepreneurship programs, the student owns the materials and other required inputs and keeps financial records to determine return to investments.

16. 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

17. 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

18. 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

20. Placement
Placement programs involve the placement of students in JOBS such as on farms and ranches, agricultural businesses, school laboratories or with community organziations to provide a "learning by doing" environment. = WORK

21. Remember, SAE projects are done outside of normal classroom hours
may be paid or non-paid.

22. Placement Activities:
Placement at a nursery (Wards)
Working after school at a farm supply store or Petstore
Working at a riding stable
Volunteering with a wildlife rehabilator

23. Working on a farm Working at a Vet’s office
Volunteering at a local Animal Shelter
Working at the farmers market

24. 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

25. Farms! The Meat Market Indian Line farm Wolfe Spring Farm
Ward’s nursery
Windy Hill
Farm Girl Farm
Howden
Project Native
Fish Hatchery
High Lawn Farm
North Plain Farm
Wolfe Spring Farm
Moon in the Pond
Pine Island Farm
Taft farm
Turner farm
Kinderhook Farm
Twin Rivers farm
Will Conklin’s farm

26. 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

28. A training agreement signed by student, teacher, employer and parent/guardian stating which each will do, record of work, hours and compensation must be completed.

29. Experimental
An extensive activity where the student plans and conducts a major agricultural experiment using the scientific process or scientific method

30. 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.

31. Experimental SAE Examples:
Comparing the effect of various planting media on plant growth
Determining the impact of different levels of protein on fish growth

32. Comparing three rooting hormones on root development
Comparing fertilizers
Determining if phases of the moon have an effect on plant growth
Animal behavior observations & training methods

33. Analytical
Identify an agricultural problem that cannot be solved by experiments and design a plan to investigate and analyze the problem such as a marketing display.

34. The student gathers and evaluates data from a variety of sources and then produce some type of finished product.

35. 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

36. A land use plan for a farm
A community recycling plan
An advertising campaign for an agribusiness

37. Exploratory
Exploratory SAE activities are designed primarily to help students become literate in agriculture and/or become aware of possible careers in agriculture.

38. Exploratory
Helps students learn about agriculture and become aware of possible agricultural careers through short times spent observing, shadowing or helping such as attending a career day, interviewing a veterinarian or assisting a horse owner.

39. Exploratory SAE activities are appropriate for beginning agricultural students

40. Exploratory Activities:
Observing and/or assisting
Job shadowing and interviewing

41. 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

42. Group Activity!
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…)
Each group will add their ideas to the board, discuss as a class.
After discussing the ideas, eliminating non- feasible and duplicates, you will then create classroom posters listing all your great ideas!
Put up in room