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Lincoln County Agriculture Education and FFA is a program in the new Lincoln County High School located in Hamlin, West Virginia. Our new program boasts technology integration like never seen before in any classroom. By combining powerful technology resources; like Interactive White Boards, On-the-fly Student Responders, Document Cameras, an integrated 25 Unit Computer Lab, and fully digital greenhouse management system, we are able to mesh technology integration with the traditional "Hands-On Learning" approach that has encompassed Agriculture Education for decades. Thus, Lincoln County Agriculture Education and FFA are far surpassing the demands of 21st Century Learning. In our program students are engaged with real world scenarios, data, tools, and experts that they will encounter in college, on the job, and in life (through their classroom experiences and SAE or Supervised Agricultural Experience)--students learn best when actively engaged in solving meaningful problems!
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What is Agricultural Education?
Agricultural Education is one of the most unique programs available to students. Although the topics are agriculture-related, the skills and knowledge learned are valuable to any student. Whether you are college-bound or career-minded, Agricultural Education can give you the tools to be a step ahead of your classmates.
All agricultural education courses are designed to be hands-on. What is hands-on learning? Think about how you learned to ride a bike. Did you learn how by reading about it or did you learn by watching? Probably not! More than likely you learned by someone explaining how to ride a bike, watching someone ride a bike and then by actually doing it. This is hands-on learning. The emphasis is placed on practicing with your hands what you learned in the classroom.
Agriculture Education consists of three elements:
Classroom & Laboratory takes place when students are presented content and concepts that are carried out in a laboratory, ag mechanics shop, greenhouse, the extended classroom or on field trips. Students learn in the classroom and then apply these skills in a "hands on" approach in the lab (ag mechanics shop, greenhouse, aquaculture rooms, Biotechnology Lab, hydropics greenhouse, field work, forest work, etc). Agricultural Education in Lincoln County is also technology and multi-media driven. Students are presented information on both computer and multimedia equipment. PowerPoint lessons, information via the Internet, and live demonstrations displayed in living color are prominent in The Lincoln County Ag Ed classroom.
Supervised Agricultural Experience (SAE) can be described as experiencing life applications. As a part of the agricultural education program, students are encouraged to invest their time and sometimes money into a life application activity that aligns with their interests and career goals. These activities are supervised by the agricultural education instructor. SAEs could include leadership and public speaking, home and/or farmstead improvement projects, horticulture, gardening, livestock production, team competition, poultry production, specialty crop or animal, on-the-job training, agriscience research project, or a number of other interesting areas. Students are encouraged to maintain their SAE while they are enrolled in agricultural education. This will allow them to continually apply the information used in the classroom to improve their SAE.
FFA activities are the third leg of the agricultural education program. Students enrolled in Ag Ed are expected to take part in the FFA activities. Not becoming involved in some type of FFA activity would be like not adding all of the ingredients to make a cake. FFA activities include community projects, school improvement projects, livestock show projects, competitive team events called career development events (CDEs), FFA chapter fun activities, leadership camps and conferences, and many more.
The close correlation between classroom instruction, supervised experiences and FFA activities makes agricultural education a unique opportunity for students. You will have no other class like it.
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