Agriculture Science

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Agriculture Science ?
Agriscience!!!!
Original by Joe Green, Pope High School Modified
by Georgia Agricultural Education Curriculum
Office July 2006

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Agriscience careers for YOU!!!!

• Live and learn.
• Learn and live.

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Whos Ready To Learn?!
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A word to the wise

• Kids, youll need to pay very close attention to
  the definitions you are about to see.
• Why?
• Because you will be USING these different career
  types in a role playing activity real soon! Yes,
  REAL SOON!
• And if you dont know your defintion, you could
  end up looking like a doofus!

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Ready?
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Define Horticulture

• It meansgarden cultivation
• the ART of growing ornamental plants, fruits,
  nut and vegetables.

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Floriculture

• the cultivation of ornamental flowering plants.

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Flowers rock my everlovin world!
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Pomology - the science of growing and marketing
fruit and nut crops.
Whats this all about?!
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Agronomy the branch of agriculture about
FARMING and field crop production.
aye yi yi yi yi!! And this?
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Florist one skilled in the artistic arrangement
and sale of flowers.
My friend, Bruce, is a .
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Microbiology the branch of biology the studies
micro-organisms.
Like microscopes?
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Viticulture the art and science of cultivating
what?
Grapes!
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Ichthyology
the branch of zoology the studies the culture
of fish production.
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Hydroponics the science of cultivating plants
in a chemical solution, usually water, instead of
soil.
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Genetics the science that studies GENES and
their development.

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Zoology the science that studies the
development, structure and classification of all
types of animal life.
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Entomology

• the branch of zoology that studies insects and
  their effect on crops.

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Greenskeeper
one skilled in the professional maintenance
of golf courses.
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Taxonomy the study of plant names, how they
are classified and identification.
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Forestry the science the studies the care and
management of forests, including their
protection, cultivation and harvesting of timber
crops.
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Parasitology The study of parasites and their
economic effect on plants and animals.
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Nematology The study of nematodes, those awful
microscopic worms that feed on plant roots.
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So are Agriscience careers a desert wasteland?!!!
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Noooo! All together now!Repeat after me!
Agriscience rocks my world! Agriscience rocks my
world! Agriscience rocks my world!
The End!
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Lets play Whats my line!Ag careers meets Music
careers

• Two people will be given
• career rolls 1 agriscience 1 music
• AND a mystery scene where the two shall meet.
• Next they will have 2 minutes to discuss their
  skit dialog they will share with class.
• The audience will have to wait thru 60 seconds of
  their dialog THEN they must guess

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You Must Guess

• The career of actor 1
• The career of actor 2
• The location of the SCENE
• Winning guesses receive a free.