Types of SAEs

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Types of SAEs

• Ms. Morris

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An SAE is

• Supervised Agricultural Experience
• Cognitive approach (purpose is to learn)
• Hands on learning experience
• Students learn, practice, expand, and enhance the
  agricultural and natural resources skills

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Me, my SAE, my FFA Chapter

• Necessary to advance in the FFA program
• Necessary to obtain most of your degrees
• Needed to be
• National FFA officer
• State FFA officer
• Helps with proficiency awards and money at many
  different FFA levels

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My SAE and my Life

• Allows the opportunity to learn new skills and
  make money
• Teaches responsibility and management skills
• Prepares you to own a business and improves
  decision making skills

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Types of SAEs

• Entrepreneurship
• Exploratory
• Placement
• Research
• Experimental
• Non-Experimental
• Improvement
• Supplemental

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Entrepreneurship

• In charge of almost anything
• Plans and operates an enterprise relating to
  agriculture and natural resources
• Owns all the materials
• Keeps fiscal records
• Assumes all of the financial risks concerned with
  their SAE
• Major SAE that takes TIME

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Entrepreneurship SAE Examples

• Owning and operating a lawn care business
• Owning and operating a hen house selling the
  eggs
• Raising a crop of roses for local florist
• Growing an acre (or more) of corn, wheat, soy,
  etc.
• Owning and operating a small community greenhouse

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Exploratory

• Research based
• Primarily for beginners
• Designed for students to better understand
  agriculture and become aware of careers in the
  agriculture industry

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Exploratory SAE Examples

• Assisting on a livestock farm for a week
• Observing a veterinarian at work
• Take an agriculture class in high school or at a
  local college
• Interview an agriscience teacher about their
  experiences in agriculture
• Attend an FFA National Conventions Job Fair

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Placement

• Placed in a variety of situations
• Creates a learning by doing environment
• Like job shadowing
• Similar to Exploratory, but more in depth

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Placement SAE Examples

• Working on a livestock/crop farm
• Interning at a local agribusiness
• Being placed at an outdoors recreation
  park/camping grounds
• Caring for the plants in the local greenhouse

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Experimental Research

• Research based learning
• Plan and carry out a major experiment in
  agriculture an natural resources using the
  scientific method
• Allows for hands-on in
• Learning new knowledge
• Using the scientific method
• Showing scientific ideals in agriculture

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Experimental SAE Examples

• Analyzing the effectiveness of different
  fertilizers on plant growth
• Comparing three different plant foods on plant
  development
• Determining which of three weed controls are most
  effective
• Determining what diet for a calf will result in
  the best growth and optimum strength

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Non-Experimental Research

• Select a problem in the agriculture community
  that does not require experimentation
• Make plans to investigate the problem to find a
  solution
• Must research data from many sources and then
  present some sort of a finished product

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Non-Experimental SAE Examples

• An area-use plan for the school greenhouse
• Working out an advertising campaign for the
  county fair
• Forming a recycling plan for your community

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Improvement

• Purpose is to improve the value and/or appearance
  of
• Workplace
• School
• Home
• Community
• Increase the efficiency of a business or the
  condition of the home life
• Cannot be done in one day due to the number of
  steps it takes to complete the project

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Improvement SAE Examples

• Building a school or community greenhouse
• Landscaping a community center
• Overhauling a tractor or lawn mower
• Rebuilding a car or truck to run on ethanol
• Reorganizing a garage
• Building and whitewashing a fence

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Supplementary

• Always accomplished in one day
• Requires very few steps
• Perform one specific agriculture skill at a time
  outside of class
• Skill is not a major S.A.E.
• Involves practical learning
• Contributes to the development of agricultural
  skills and knowledge

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Supplementary SAE Examples

• Mowing the lawn of neighbors
• Artificial inseminating a cow
• Pruning a tree or bush
• Planting a tree
• Picking vegetables from a garden

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Questions???
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Part of the FFA motto is learning by doing, so
lets go DO!!!