Course Standards

2026-2027 Academic Year

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AP44 Horticulture II - Landscape Construction

Course Type: Developed

Course Outcomes:

Connect career exploration to essential employability skills required for success in an agriculture career.
Identify common landscape and nursery plants based on physiological characteristics, growth habits, and environmental requirements.
Develop a landscape plan using elements of site evaluation, design and scale.
Implement landscape designs by installing plant materials and hardscape elements while demonstrating professional maintenance skills and management techniques.
Understand turfgrass installation and management practices.

Standard/Objective Number	Standard/Objective	Course Weight	RBT Designation
1.00	Apply leadership and durable employability skills.	5%	C3 Apply Procedural
1.01	Implement leadership skills necessary for employment in the landscape industry.	3%	C3 Apply Procedural
1.02	Execute meetings using principles of parliamentary procedure.	2%	C3 Apply Procedural
2.00	Apply work-based and experiential learning in horticulture.	14%	C3 Apply Procedural
2.01	Apply records and calculations in work-based and experiential learning in the landscape industry.	4%	C3 Apply Procedural
2.02	Implement marketing concepts used in the landscape industry.	7%	B3 Apply Conceptual
2.03	Implement a Supervised Agricultural Experience (SAE).	3%	C3 Apply Procedural
3.00	Apply site evaluation and plant identification skills necessary for landscape design.	18%	C3 Apply Procedural
3.01	Implement a site evaluation and select plant materials for landscape use.	9%	C3 Apply Procedural
3.02	Apply the process to identify common landscape and nursery plants.	9%	C3 Apply Procedural
4.00	Apply the process to create a landscape design.	18%	C3 Apply Procedural
4.01	Implement the principles and elements of landscape design.	9%	C3 Apply Procedural
4.02	Implement standard drawing practices to create a landscape plan.	9%	C3 Apply Procedural
5.00	Apply landscape installation skills.	16%	C3 Apply Procedural
5.01	Apply industry standards to install landscape plants.	8%	C3 Apply Procedural
5.02	Apply industry standards to install hardscape in a landscape.	8%	C3 Apply Procedural
6.00	Apply turfgrass installation and management skills.	11%	C3 Apply Procedural
6.01	Understand proper turfgrass installation practices.	5%	B2 Understand Conceptual
6.02	Implement proper turfgrass management practices.	6%	C3 Apply Procedural
7.00	Apply landscape maintenance skills.	18%	C3 Apply Procedural
7.01	Implement landscape maintenance skills.	9%	C3 Apply Procedural
7.02	Apply proper integrated pest management techniques in a landscape.	9%	C3 Apply Procedural

Essential standards (highlighted in gray 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 gray 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.

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Column information

Standard/Objective Number: The essential standard is denoted by the digits before the dot; objectives/indicators are indicated by the final 2 digits.
Standard/Objective: 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.