What is a SAE?What is a SAE?

Supervised Agricultural Experience (SAE) Programs consist of planned practical activities conducted outside of conducted outside of class timeclass time in which students develop and apply agricultural knowledge and skills.

Examples of SAE Projects

Operating a lawn Operating a lawn care businesscare business

Raising show Raising show rabbitsrabbits

Working at a Working at a nurserynursery

Growing a Growing a vegetable gardenvegetable garden

LandscapingLandscaping

Working at a Working at a dairy farmdairy farm

Operating a pet Operating a pet sitting servicesitting service

Working with a Working with a veterinarianveterinarian

Improving Improving wildlife habitatwildlife habitat

Why Have a SAE Project?

Develop skills that can be used in getting a job

Earn moneymoneyWin FFA awards!

(FFA proficiency awards are based on your SAE)

Develop skills to start your own business

Obtain skills and knowledge that will be helpful in college

More Reasons for SAE!

Learn more about possible careers

Develop management skillsLearn how to keep accurate records

Advance in the FFA (FFA degrees are based on your SAE)

Improve decision making skillsDevelop skills that can be used as a hobby or for recreation.

One More Reason for SAE!

It can make a profound impact in YOUR life!

Experiential Learning

““All genuine education All genuine education comes about through comes about through

experience.”experience.”John Dewey

Cone of Learning (Edgar Dale)

Doing the Real Thing

Simulating the Real Experience

Doing a Dramatic Presentation

Giving a Talk

Participating in a Discussion

Seeing It Done on Location

Watching a Demonstration

Looking at an Exhibit

Watching a Movie

Looking at Pictures

Hearing Words

Reading

Nature of Involvement

Passive

Active

Receiving/Participating

Doing

Visual Receiving

Verbal Receiving

After 2 weekswe tend to remember...

10% of what we read

20% of what we hear

30% of what we see

50% of what we hear and see

70% of whatwe say

90% ofwhat wesay anddo

Edgar Dale, Audio-Visual Methods in Teaching (3rd Edn.), Holt, Rinehart, and Winston (1969).

SAE Model

Exploratory

Entrepreneurship

Placement

Research

Improvement

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What is the legal basis for SAE?

The Smith-Hughes Act of 1917The Smith-Hughes Act of 1917 (a federal law) required all students in agriculture classes to have "directed or supervised practice in agriculture.”

Ag Ed Education Model

Instruction

SAE FFA

Each side of a triangle provides support for the structure.

Types of SAE Types of SAE ProgramsPrograms

Entrepreneurship

Planning, implementing, operating and assuming financial risks in an agricultural businessbusiness or farming activity raising animals, running a lawn care

business, operating a farm stand

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

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

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

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

Placement Placement programs involve the

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

Remember, SAE projects are done outside of normal classroom hours

may be paid or non-paid.

Placement Activities:

Placement at a nursery (Wards)Working after school at a farm supply store or Petstore

Working at a riding stableVolunteering with a wildlife rehabilator

Working on a farm Working at a Vet’s office Volunteering at a local Animal Shelter

Working at the farmers market

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

Farms!

Wolfe Spring Farm Moon in the Pond Pine Island Farm Taft farm Turner farm Kinderhook Farm Twin Rivers farm Will Conklin’s farm Equinox farm

The Meat Market Indian Line farm Ward’s nursery Windy Hill Farm Girl Farm Howden Project Native Fish Hatchery High Lawn Farm North Plain Farm

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

A training agreementtraining agreement signed by student, teacher, employer and parent/guardian stating which each will do, record of work, hours and compensation

must be completed.

Experimental

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

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.

Experimental SAE Examples:

Comparing the effect of various planting media on plant growth

Determining the impact of different levels of protein on fish growth

Comparing three rooting hormones on root development

Comparing fertilizersDetermining if phases of the moon have an effect on plant growth

Animal behavior observations & training methods

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

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

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

A land use plan for a farmA community recycling plan

An advertising campaign for an agribusiness

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

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

Exploratory SAE activities are appropriate for beginning agricultural students

Exploratory Activities:

Observing and/or assisting

Job shadowing and interviewing

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

Group Activity!

1. 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…)

2. Each group will add their ideas to the board, discuss as a class.

3. After discussing the ideas, eliminating non-feasible and duplicates, you will then create classroom posters listing all your great ideas!

4. Put up in room