applications. Students will explore career and postsecondary opportunities in each area of the course. Students participating in the Introduction to Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources course will experience hands-on activities, projects, and problems. Student experiences will involve the study of communication, the science of agriculture, plants, animals, natural resources, and agricultural mechanics. While surveying the opportunities available in agriculture and natural resources, students will learn to solve problems, conduct research, analyze data, work in teams, and take responsibility for their work, actions, and learning. For example, students will work in groups to determine the efficiency and environmental impacts of fuel sources in a practical learning exercise.

This Course is designed to develop responsibility, initiative, creativity, leadership, and school pride in the agriculture program. It provides class time for the planning and organization of meetings, social and recreational events, elections, service activities, community, and other events. Students will have the opportunity to study concepts of goal development as an individual and team, the keys to success as an individual and team, character development as an individual and team, group dynamic, Parliamentary law and procedures, critical thinking, public speaking, personal financial management, business and how it relates to the agriculture industry, career goals and the importance of Supervised Agricultural Experience (SAE) programs and the FFA in agricultural Education. Students are required to complete a 25 hours per semester in their SAE Project