2023-2024 Course Standards

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Essential standards (highlighted in green below) are big, powerful ideas that are necessary and essential for students to know to be successful in a course. Essential standards identify the appropriate verb and cognitive process intended for the student to accomplish. Essential standards provide value throughout a student's career, in other courses, and translate to the next level of education or world of work.

Objectives/Indicators (rows not highlighted in green below) provide another level of detail for each Essential Standard.

Adapted or Adopted Course includes essential standards and, in many cases, specific objectives/indicators aligned with business and industry standards and/or criteria for credentials or certifications. The course standards are designed using the Revised Bloom's Taxonomy (RBT). If the POL is a CTE State Assessment, the course is written at the level of the ESSENTIAL STANDARD and assesses the intended outcome of the sum of its objectives/indicators.

The six NC Essential Employability Skills are Communication, Ethics, Problem Solving, Professionalism, Resource Management, and Teamwork. These skills are covered among the course essential standards and objectives/indicators as listed beside each. NC CTE curriculum provides and supports career awareness, career exploration, career development, technical skill development, and career readiness where six Essential Employability Skills are included in CTE Curriculum Standards. CTE builds a career and college ready workforce through the K-12 pipeline and provides a consistent and 'common language' for identification of the six Essential Employability Skills.

Career and Technical Education conducts all activities and procedures without regard to race, color, creed, national origin, gender, or disability. The responsibility to adhere to safety standards and best professional practices is the duty of the practitioners, teachers, students, and/or others who apply the contents of this document.

This blueprint has been reviewed by business and industry representatives for technical content and appropriateness for the industry.

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Standard/Obj #: The essential standard is denoted by the digits before the dot; objectives/indicators are indicated by the final 2 digits.
Standard: Essential standard and specific objective/indicator statements per essential standard. Each essential standard statement or specific objective/indicator begins with an action verb and makes a complete sentence when combined with The learner will be able to... Outcome behavior in each essential standard or objective/indicator statement is denoted by the verb plus its object.
Course Weight: Shows the relative importance of each essential standard or objective/indicator. Course weight is used to help determine the percentage of total class time that is spent on each objective/indicator.
RBT Designation: Classification of outcome behavior in essential standards and indicator statements in Dimensions according to the Revised Bloom's Taxonomy:
Cognitive Process Dimension: 1 Remember, 2 Understand, 3 Apply, 4 Analyze, 5 Evaluate, 6 Create.
Knowledge Dimension: A Factual Knowledge, B Conceptual Knowledge, C Procedural Knowledge.

AA21 Animal Science I

Course Type: Developed

Standard/Obj #	Standard/Objective	Course Weight	RBT Designation	Essential Employability Skills
1.00	Apply leadership and employability skills.	12%	C3 Procedural Knowledge - Apply	Communication Ethics Problem Solving Professionalism Resource Management Teamwork
1.01	Explain FFA opportunities available to students.	4%	B2 Conceptual Knowledge - Understand	Communication Professionalism Resource Management Teamwork
1.02	Develop employability skills.	4%	C3 Procedural Knowledge - Apply	Communication Ethics Problem Solving Professionalism Resource Management Teamwork
1.03	Develop proper meeting management.	4%	C3 Procedural Knowledge - Apply	Communication Ethics Problem Solving Professionalism Resource Management Teamwork
2.00	Apply work-based and experiential learning in animal science.	12%	C3 Procedural Knowledge - Apply	Communication Ethics Problem Solving Professionalism Resource Management Teamwork
2.01	Summarize careers in the animal industry.	4%	B2 Conceptual Knowledge - Understand	Communication Professionalism
2.02	Develop a Supervised Agricultural Experience (SAE).	8%	C3 Procedural Knowledge - Apply	Communication Ethics Problem Solving Professionalism Resource Management Teamwork
3.00	Understand the economic impact and current trends and issues in animal science.	12%	B2 Conceptual Knowledge - Understand	Communication Ethics Problem Solving Professionalism Resource Management
3.01	Explain the economic impact of the animal science industry.	4%	B2 Conceptual Knowledge - Understand	Communication Ethics Problem Solving Professionalism Resource Management
3.02	Explain current trends in the animal science industry.	4%	B2 Conceptual Knowledge - Understand	Communication Ethics Resource Management
3.03	Explain animal welfare issues and the benefits of producing healthy animals.	4%	B2 Conceptual Knowledge - Understand	Communication Ethics Problem Solving Professionalism Resource Management
4.00	Apply evaluation criteria to animals based on quality traits.	24%	C3 Procedural Knowledge - Apply	Communication Ethics Problem Solving Professionalism Resource Management
4.01	Classify terminology used to describe animals.	6%	B2 Conceptual Knowledge - Understand	Communication Ethics Problem Solving Professionalism Resource Management
4.02	Implement industry standards to select food and companion animals.	10%	C2 Procedural Knowledge - Understand	Communication Ethics Problem Solving Professionalism Resource Management
4.03	Justify a ordered placing of animals based on desirable traits.	8%	C5 Procedural Knowledge - Evaluate	Communication Ethics Problem Solving Professionalism Resource Management
5.00	Understand reproductive systems.	12%	B2 Conceptual Knowledge - Understand	Communication Professionalism Resource Management
5.01	Explain the reproductive systems of mammals.	6%	B2 Conceptual Knowledge - Understand	Communication Professionalism Resource Management
5.02	Explain the reproductive system of avian species.	6%	B2 Conceptual Knowledge - Understand	Communication Professionalism Resource Management
6.00	Understand digestive systems and nutritional components.	14%	B2 Conceptual Knowledge - Understand	Communication Ethics Problem Solving Professionalism Resource Management Teamwork
6.01	Compare ruminant, monogastric, and avian systems.	7%	B2 Conceptual Knowledge - Understand	Communication Ethics Problem Solving Professionalism Resource Management Teamwork
6.02	Compare nutritional components of animal feeds.	7%	B2 Conceptual Knowledge - Understand	Communication Ethics Problem Solving Professionalism Resource Management Teamwork
7.00	Understand best management practices in animal science.	14%	B2 Conceptual Knowledge - Understand	Communication Ethics Professionalism Resource Management
7.01	Understand animal behavior.	7%	B2 Conceptual Knowledge - Understand	Communication Ethics Professionalism Resource Management
7.02	Demonstrate animal handling systems.	7%	B2 Conceptual Knowledge - Understand	Communication Ethics Professionalism Resource Management