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What is Horticulture Science?
What is Horticulture Science?
Horticulture Science is a course designed for students who enjoy working with all things plants. This course often feeds into the Turf Management and Landscaping classes offered, but is also a completer course for the Greenhouse Plant Production and Management course. The horticulture class goes more in depth with topics discussed in the Applied Agricultural Concepts class or introduces new ideas specific to a career in horticulture. The topics learned in this class are plant anatomy and physiology, environmental effects on plants, greenhouse structures, pest management, turf, landscaping, floral design, fruit/vegetable gardening.
Some notable activities students have had the opportunity to participate in during this course include: students grow their own plants to keep, plant propagation, hydroponics, a murder mystery pest problem solving activity, laying down grass seed, operating rototiller and/or weed whacker designing a landscape, creating floral arrangements, greenhouse watering and management (planting seeds/plugs, cleaning the greenhouse, composting), gardening.
Students in this course will also be growing plants for the annual spring plant sale held at the high school greenhouse. This is a great way for students to learn about marketing and salesmanship as well as general greenhouse care and presentation for customers.
The school garden is a project in collaboration with the school nutrition program. The idea is a farm to school garden which will provide fruit and vegetables to the school cafeteria. The garden is still in the infant stages of development as the students (and myself! :) ) learn more and more about managing the garden and creating healthy, fresh, local food to eat. Check out the video to see the beginnings of our school garden!
Check out my welcome video to new students here!
Check out my welcome video to new students here!
Horticulture welcomeDrone Garden.mp4This video is from 2018 in the first season of this garden's creation. A lot has been done to the garden since, so it looks much different now! Students have created raised beds, and use a portion of the garden as their landscape design areas. Cover crops have been used and a drip irrigation system is currently in the works. Our goal for Spring 2022: grow in-season crops for harvest to be used in the school cafeteria by the end of the semester.
Horticulture students need to join these items:
This is where we are going to be accessing all assignments and submitting completed online work. I use this almost every day so become familiar with this! I do not often use the grading feature through classroom. Students can view all grades on PowerSchool. All downloadable content will be posted on Classroom for students to use. I consider Classroom to be our online "hub" because it will have basically everything you need. Notes, powerpoints, videos, project instructions, quizzes, and tests are all going to be posted here.
Join with our class code:
(**make sure you select the correct section!)
Block 3: afodui5
I promise, I don't bombard you with a billion messages. I primarily use this app for students (and parents) that we will be going outside to do work so students can prepare for the weather or bring clothes they don't mind getting dirty. I also use it as a reminder for upcoming events, extra credit opportunities, test/quiz reminders, school spirit reminders, homework/signature reminders. If you ever need to message me with questions, you can do that too! Just remember to keep content appropriate and to observe office hours. I do my best to respond right away.
Join with our class code:
(**make sure you select the correct section!)
Remind code: 6g24h4
Agricultural Experience Tracker
Agricultural Experience Tracker
All students enrolled in an agriculture course are required to complete an SAE. Learn more about SAEs here. The program used for updating records is theaet.com. Don't worry about joining this right away. It can be a little overwhelming, so I'll teach this to the class. AET does require internet, so time will be provided in class to update records. I do urge students to not rely on class time entirely. Being a semester long project, I imagine that students would be able to reach an internet source outside of school when absolutely needed.
Mrs. Moyer will provide you with a username and password
Course Safety Contract Signature Page and Parent/Guardian Questionnaire
Course Safety Contract Signature Page and Parent/Guardian Questionnaire
Students MUST take this home to parents, read over it together and fill out both sides of the form. This is a graded assignment! The teacher will provide a hard copy to students, but the contract is made available for students and parents to review in case they need a reminder of expectations.
Horticulture Sciences Short.pdfCourse Competencies
Course Competencies
The Course Competencies are what Career and Technical Education teachers follow for all of their course planning and curriculum design. Students are encouraged to look over this to get a better feel of the expectations in this course. This is explains the age old question of "Why are we learning this?".
The VDOE works with teachers and industry professionals in every CTE course to provide revisions to competencies as they relate to career and industry standards. Therefore, each competency is selected by the professionals as the most important information for students interested in a career pathway in their course to know before they graduate high school or participate in a Work Based Learning environment.
Take a look at the course competencies for Introduction to Animal Systems to see what we'll be talking about this semester! Do expect some adaptations and liberties to determine what works best given the program facilities and other factors.
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