Let Minions Do Your Work For You During FFA Week
Advisors are always looking for a great way to promote FFA week with their members and students at school. It's always great when you have minions to do the work for you.
Desktop Hydroponic System Class Activity
You don't always need a fancy hydroponic system for your class to learn. Sometimes they can just make their own. Ledford FFA students learned the basic principles of hydroponic growth and then applied their knowledge by making their own units.
Vegetable Propagation In Plant Science
Whether learning about root types, vegetables, or other plant science lesson you can take it one step further. Instagram teacher, @ag.with.mrs.edwards had her class attempt to propagate several types of fresh vegetables with some success.
Community Service Ideas to Fit Your Community
Community services ideas don't always have to be the same old thing. Here Mountain Home FFA planted 1,000 Bitter Brush plants in their native range on public land as a community service.
Using Insects to Spark Interest in the Natural Resources Lesson
You may not see it at first glance, but there's a moth hiding in that photo. Commerce Middle School students take a day to camouflage different insects to their "surroundings" in the classroom.
How To Reward Effort From Chapter Members
How do you reward great effort from students? You could have a monthly chapter champion. What better way to celebrate that than with the chapter belt (similar to a Professional Wrestling belt). While Taylor FFA students don't get to keep the belt, they do get bragging rights and a chance to ham it up for a month.
Change Up Class and Let Your Students Explore with a "Genius Hour"
Take time out of your teaching schedule to let your students explore and tinker. Jenkins County FFA has a "genius hour" each week where students can try new skills and even use equipment they normally won't have access to.
A Different Kind of Chapter Recruitment and Community Service Idea
Community service and chapter recruitment can come in some pretty unique ways. Denmark FFA hosted a brownie troop working on their animal care badge.
Scientific Method and Bread Baking
McConnelsburg FFA used a great lab to apply the scientific method with a few variables on a common food item, baked bread. The variables not only illustrate how ingredient changes impact the finished product, but also brings students first hand experience of what each ingredient is used for and what happens when they are missing.
Incubating Quail Eggs in Class Is More Than Just Hatching Eggs
Poultry doesn't always have to be just about chickens. Whether in an animal science class or wildlife quail eggs are a great choice and step away from ordinary when it comes to incubating eggs. Elmwood FFA took on the challenge of ordering and incubating a clutch of Northern Bobwhite Quail eggs as a part of class.
How To Practice Livestock Showing Without Livestock
When your students don't know much about showing livestock, then you get creative when demonstrating it. Commerce FFA broke out the show sticks and beach balls so that their Greenhand Middle Schoolers could get a crash course in showmanship.
