Core IV Materials for Metropolitan Agriculture/Horticulture Programs.

This core curriculum guide consists of materials for use in presenting a 13-unit vocational agriculture course geared toward high school students living in metropolitan areas. Addressed in the individual units of the course are the following topics: employment in agricultural occupations, supervised occupational experience, leadership in horticulture and in agriculture, horticulture and agricultural mechanics, plant propagation, plant identification, horticultural-crop management, horticultural-plant pest control, urban animals, soil science and conservation of natural resources, horticultural and agricultural products, landscape design and maintenance, retail floriculture, and horticulture business management. Each unit contains some or all of the following: suggestions to the teacher, a teacher's guide, information sheets, student worksheets and a teacher's key, transparencies, a discussion guide for the transparencies, and sample test questions along with a teacher's key. (MN)