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3. SAE Supervised Agricultural Experience

4. SAE Activities outside of the regular classroom time

5. SAE Counts toward agricultural education grade

6. Major Components of Agriscience Program Classroom and laboratory instruction FFA SAE

7. Is for every student

8. Purpose of SAE Provides opportunities to explore a variety of subjects about Agriscience

9. Purpose of SAE Provides educational and practical experience in a specialized area of agriscience

10. Purpose of SAE Provides opportunities for earning while learning

11. Purpose of SAE Teaches students to keep good records in a record system (computer where applicable)

12. Purpose of SAE Win FFA awards (proficiency awards are based on SAE)

13. Types of SAE Exploratory Entrepreneurship Placement Improvement

14. Types of SAE Supplemental Analyltical Experimental

15. Exploratory SAE Where you want to observe and experience a variety of career options

16. Exploratory SAE Short durations usually; fits beginning students well

17. Exploratory SAE Help students become literate in agriculture

18. Exploratory SAE Learn of possible careers

19. Exploratory SAE Samples; Observing and/or assisting a florist, interviewing a bank loan officer, attending career day

20. Entrepreneurship Ownership or part- ownership and assume financial risk

21. Entrepreneurship SAE Develop skills necessary to become established in one’s own business

22. Entrepreneurship SAE May be production or agribusiness related and involve enterprises (specific crops, livestock, activities)

23. SAE “Enterprise” A type of animal or plant

24. Entrepreneurship SAE Production – Raise an agricultural commodity for profit.

25. Entrepreneurship SAE Production Examples: Produce vegetables, grow Christmas trees, raise horses of livestock, or grow field crops or nursery crops.

26. Raising Beef Cattle Example of a production SAE project

27. Entrepreneurship SAE Agribusiness – Students buy and sell an agricultural commodity or service for profit

28. Entrepreneurship SAE Agribusiness examples: pet business, crop scouting service, feed scales, or running a pay fish operation

29. Entrepreneurship Type of SAE for students who want to conduct activities for a profit

30. Placement SAE Students are placed with an employer (full or part time)

31. Placement SAE Usually paid an hourly wage

32. Placement SAE Placement in Production – on a farm, ranch, greenhouse, or nursery

33. Placement SAE Placement in Agribusiness – at a veterinary center, florist, garden center

34. Improvement Activities Improve the appearance, convenience, efficiency, safety, or value of a home, farm, or ranch

35. Improvement SAE No wages No ownership

36. Improvement SAE Benefit by learning skills Examples: landscaping the home, building a fence, painting a room

37. Supplementary SAE Short-term activities outside the classroom

38. Supplementary SAE Skill specific, non-wage Examples: Changing oil in a mower, pruning a fruit tree

39. Changing a Spark Plug Example of a supplementary skill that should be recorded in a record book

40. Analytical SAE Students choose an agricultural problem not easily tested by experimentation

41. Analytical SAE Gather and evaluate data Example: Marketing plan for poinsettia crop

42. Experimental SAE Students conduct an agricultural experiment using the scientific method

43. Experimental SAE Comparing the effects of various fertilizers on plant growth

44. Record Book or Computer Best place to keep SAE records

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