ROLAND-STORY COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT
FEBRUARY, 2014
AGRICULTURE EDUCATION - Mr. Brad Taylor
We are now well into our new semester with our various class offerings. This spring, our Agriculture Education classes consist of:
Agricultural Shop, Food Science, Horticulture, Introduction to Veterinary Medicine, and Agricultural Business Management.
The students in the Agriculture Shop class are focusing their attentions on
making various woodworking projects. This year we are offering 1 section of
the class with 15 students in it. A major emphasis in this class deals with
safety in the shop setting. Some of the projects include: children’s size Adirondack chairs, reading benches, children’s sized picnic tables and outdoor
signs. If you are interested in purchasing any of the children sized projects or
a reading bench, contact Brad Taylor at the high school (733-4320 or email at
[email protected]) for information.
Food Science students have
learned about the food
chemistry, basics of food
preparation, and nutrition
and digestion and will be
learning more about the concepts of food research and development. They will be dealing with multiple tasks
throughout the semester referred to as ‘food challenges’ in which our focus is on
product development.
In our horticulture class, the 45 students have studied how math is utilized in this
field as well as learning about basics of the plant systems. Currently students are
learning about the nomenclature of plants as well as plant systems. This class is
offered for a science credit.
In the Introduction to Veterinary Medicine class, the students focus this semester is
on learning about veterinary care of animals. The 23 students have learned about animal cells, tissues, circulatory systems and renal
system. Future units deal with the skeletal system, nervous system and reproductive system.
The students in the Agriculture Business Management class are learning about
sales and job interviewing. Future units of study include learning about the various types of agri-businesses as well as agricultural financing. This class is offered
as a joint enrollment class through DMACC.
Our FFA chapter will be competing in sub-district FFA contests at Parkersburg on
Febru