| Course ID: | AGED 4370/6370. 3 hours. |
| Course Title: | Agricultural Science for Teachers |
Course
Description: | Preparation for teaching science concepts using agriculture as a
context in secondary and post-secondary agricultural education.
Emphasis will be placed on providing students with engaging
activities and laboratory exercises that can be used in their own
agriculture or science classrooms upon graduation. |
| Oasis Title: | Agricultural Science for Teach |
| Undergraduate Prerequisite: | BIOL 1107 or BIOL 1107H or BIOL 1107E |
| Graduate Prerequisite: | AGED 7020E |
Semester Course
Offered: | Offered summer semester every year. |
| Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
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| Course Objectives: | Upon completion of this course, the student will be able to:
1. Manage an agriscience laboratory.
2. Teach agriscience laboratory safety.
3. Perform agricultural experiments that teach science concepts.
4. Teach an array of science concepts using agriculture as the
context.
5. Teach agricultural topics using science concepts. |
| Topical Outline: | Contextual Learning; Lab Management; Lab Safety; Wet Mount
Slides; An Engaging Classroom; Transpiration in Plants; Osmotic
Turgenscene; AgriScience Textbook Resources; DNA Extraction;
Genetics; Effects of Antibiotics in Bacteria; Protein
Digestion; Starch Digestion; Tropisms; Determining Energy
Values of Feed; Mechanical Power Transmission; Chemical
Properties of Metal & Reactions; The Science of the Internal
Combustion Engine & Alternative Energy Sources; Determining
Acid Buffer Capacity; Using Biotechnology to Improve Crops;
Tissue Culture/Cloning Carrots; Milk Microbiology; Pouring
Plates; Inoculating; Preparing Media; Water Quality; The
Difference in Plant and Animal Cells; Plant Pathology; Food
Science for Teachers; Parts of an Egg; Humidity; Yeast
Fermentation; Agriscience Curriculum |