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Intro to Agriculture Education:
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Introduction to Wildlife Management
Lessons
Objectives
Into to Agriculture Education:
Objectives:
1. Explain the benefits of being enrolled in
agricultural education.
2. Explain the benefits of being an FFA
member.
3. Explain the steps in the FFA degree ladder.
4. Identify awards programs relative to their
individual interest.
5. Develop plans for a supervised agricultural
experience program.
Lesson 1: Introduction Wildlife
Management
Unit 1: Introduction to Wildlife
Management:
Objectives:
1. Define wildlife management and compare
wildlife management to other agricultural
sciences.
2. Explain wildlife conservation,
management, and recreation.
Lesson 2: Wildlife Resources
1. Explain the importance of wildlife
resources.
Lesson 3: Economics of Wildlife and Fish
2. Recognize cause and affect of human
wildlife conflicts.
3. Recognize methods of human wildlife
conflict resolution.
Lesson 4: Human/Wildlife Conflicts and
Resolutions
1. Develop a wildlife management plan for a
given land area.
2. Explain the purpose and goals of quality
deer management.
3. Explain the relationship between game
management and productivity.
4. Determine harvest strategies, based on
harvest data collection, to achieve a specific
management objective.
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Careers in Wildlife Management:
Lesson 5: Biodiversity in Wildlife
1. Explain biodiversity as related to wildlife
populations.
Lesson 6: Endangered Species
1. Discuss Rare, Threatened, and Endangered
Animals in Georgia.
Lesson 7: Wildlife and Society
1. Explain how wildlife is threatened by
human activities.
2. Explain how proper wildlife management
has increased the amount of wildlife in many
habitats and areas.
3. Describe the acts that humans commit that
degrade and harm wildlife habitat.
4. Describe some acts that humans have done
to benefit wildlife.
Lesson 1: Career Opportunities in Wildlife
Careers in Wildlife Management:
Objectives:
1. Identify career and entrepreneurship
opportunities in wildlife management.
2. Develop appropriate leadership and
interpersonal skills.
3. Identify employer expectations, including
work habits and citizenship skills.
4. Demonstrate appropriate occupational
safety skills.
5. Use supervised experience to develop job
skills.
6. Identify some characteristics of wildlife
and fisheries careers.
Lesson 2: Research in Wildlife
1. Describe the role of research in wildlife
management.
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Governmental Regulations on Wildlife
Wildlife Related Groups and Agencies
Lesson 1: History and Administration of
Wildlife Management and Conservation in
America
Unit 2: History of Wildlife Management
and Governmental Regulations:
Objectives:
1. Trace the early history of wildlife
conservation.
2. Name past leaders in wildlife conservation
efforts.
5. Recognize major pieces of U.S. legislation
pertaining to the conservation of our wildlife
resources and their relative importance.
6. Identify national policies impacting
wildlife conservation.
Lesson 2: The Era of Exploitation
1. Describe the era of exploitation of
America’s wildlife.
Lesson 3: Trends and Philosophies in
Wildlife Management
1. Describe major trends in wildlife
management philosophies and practices.
2. Develop a better understanding of modern
wildlife management by studying the history
of American attitudes concerning wildlife as a
resource.
Lesson 1: Government in Wildlife
Wildlife Related Groups and Agencies:
Objectives:
1. Identify the major federal agencies that are
directly involved with wildlife management.
2. Identify sources of information on wildlife
management.
Lesson 2: Private Organizations in Wildlife
1. List major private wildlife conservation
organizations.
2. Identify sources of information on wildlife
management.
3. Identify groups and organizations with
concern for wildlife and their official position
regarding hunting and other wildlife
management techniques.
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Habitat & Food Chains
Lesson 1: Components of Habitats
Lesson 2: Classification of Habitats
Lesson 3: GPS and GIS for Habitat
Evaluation
Lesson 4: Developing a Wildlife
Management Plan
Lesson 5: Wildlife Habitat Survey
Lesson 6: Habitat quality index
Lesson 7: Habitat Improvement and
Habitats for wildlife - Establishment and
Management:
Objectives:
1. Identify components of wildlife habitat.
2. Describe major habitat requirements for
selected species.
3. Identify habitat requirements for specific
species
1. Describe how habitat growth is classified.
1. Collect GPS data.
2. Utilize GPS data to create a map.
3. Utilize a hand held compass to determine
traverse bearings.
4. Triangulate positions using GIS database,
compass bearings and GPS data.
5. Create a GIS cover type map for a given
land area.
1. Develop a wildlife management plan for a
given land area.
2. Identify management practices to improve
habitat for selected species
3. Schedule practices to optimize
effectiveness.
4. Explain the purpose and goals of quality
deer management.
5. Explain the relationship between game
management and productivity.
6. Determine harvest strategies, based on
harvest date collection, to achieve a specific
objective.
7. Determine the relationship between habitat
availability and wildlife populations.
1. Conduct a field evaluation of habitat for
selected species on a given area.
2. Identify habitat deficiencies for the survey
area.
3. Evaluate habitat from aerial photographs.
1. Describe habitat mix.
2. Calculate a habitat quality index.
1. Identify practices to improve habitat
Management
Lesson 8: Freshwater Habitats
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Biological systems/ needs - ecosystems:
Lesson 1: Wildlife Ecology
Lesson 2: Ecosystems and their functions
Lesson 3: Scientific Classification
Lesson 4: Stages of Growth and
Development in Wildlife
Lesson 5: Life Processes
Lesson 6: Genetics and Heredity
Lesson 7: Predation
characteristics.
2. Recommend approved practices for
managing habitat and populations.
1. Identify the different types of freshwater
habitat.
2. Describe techniques of management for
freshwater habitats.
3. Describe some of the characteristics of
healthy aquatic habitats.
4. Identify potential problems, which affect
freshwater habitats.
Wildlife Biology and Ecology:
Objectives:
1. Define terms associated with wildlife
ecology.
2. Explain the “Edge Effect” and its
importance.
1. Describe the importance of ecosystems in
wildlife biology.
2. Describe the various components and
functions of ecosystems.
1. Describe how animals are named by
scientific classification.
1. Describe the stages through the life span of
wildlife organisms.
1. Explain the importance life processes of
living wildlife organisms.
2. Explain physiology and anatomy of animal
species.
3. Discuss the reproductive systems and
processes of wildlife species.
4. Explain and identify the essential nutrient
needs of animals.
1. Explains the role of genetics and heredity
in wildlife.
1. Describe the role of predation on animal
wildlife.
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Population Dynamics
Lesson 1: Populations of Wildlife
Lesson 2: Population Management
Lesson 3: Limiting Factors and Carrying
Capacity
Lesson 4: Biotic Potential
Lesson 5: Inversity and Compensation
Lesson 6: Populations Analysis
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Environment and Pollution in
ecosystems
Lesson 1: Pollution and its Effects on
Wildlife and Their Habitats
Populations of wildlife: Growth, Cycles,
Regulations, Movements, Collection
Objectives:
1. Define populations.
7. Demonstrate population management
techniques
8. Describe factors affecting birth rate and
death rate.
9. Explain the concept of surplus as it relates
to wildlife populations.
2. Identify impacts on wildlife populations.
3. Explain the concept of limiting factors.
4. Explain the relationship between carrying
capacity, limiting factors and wildlife
populations.
10. Define biotic potential and calculate the
biotic potential of selected species.
11. Explain the principles of inversity and
compensation.
12. Recognize population curves that depict
population changes among various species.
13. Recognize cause and effect relationships
represented by population curves and how
they are utilized in managing wildlife
populations.
14. Estimate populations of wildlife using
spotlight census procedures and transect data
collection.
15. Explain the relationship of populations to
habitat.
16. Explain the concept of population status.
Preventing Habitat Pollution and
Destruction
Objectives:
1. Describe pollution and types of pollutants.
2. Identify pollutions sources that endanger
wildlife.
3. Explain how pollutants affect wildlife.
4. Identify strategies for preventing pollution
of wildlife habitat.
5. Discuss habitat destruction and some
means of prevention.
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Managing S. Pine forest for wildlife
Lesson 1: Management for Wildlife in
Southern Forests
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Harvesting Wildlife
Lesson 1: Hunting
Lesson 2: Hunter Safety and Firearms
Lesson 3: Landowner and Property Rights
Managing Southern Pine forest for
wildlife:
Objectives:
1. Managing Uplands Pines for Wildlife
2. Managing Bottomland Hardwoods for
Wildlife
3. Wildlife of Both Uplands and
Hardwoods
Hunting:
Objectives:
1. Explain and describe how different wildlife
species are hunted.
2. Describe how different harvested game is
prepared.
3. Describe the relationship between sports
hunters and wildlife populations.
4. Explain how funding generated by sports
hunters also benefit non-game species.
5. Relate hunting to other conservation
practices.
6. Demonstrate an understanding of hunter
ethics and why they are important to the well
being of wildlife.
1. List and identify some important
regulations concerning hunting.
2. Describe types of firearms used in hunting.
3. Explain the importance of hunter safety.
4. Demonstrate an understanding of the causes
of hunting and firearm accidents.
5. Identify means by which hunting and
firearms accidents may be prevented.
1. Explain landowner and property rights.
2. Demonstrate an understanding of written
laws regulating hunting activity.
3. Describe the purpose of laws, which
regulate human activities that impact wildlife.
4. Locate and name five wildlife management
Lesson 4: Fishing
Lesson 5: Trapping
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Wildlife Damage/Control
Lesson 1 Wildlife Damage Control
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Wildlife Migration
Lesson 1: The Magnitude and Importance
of Migration
areas in Georgia.
5. Explain why the state and federal
government provide wildlife management
areas.
Fishing:
Objectives:
1. Explain and differentiate between
commercial and sport fishing.
2. Define and explain aquaculture.
3. Explain the importance of safety practices
in fishing.
4. Describe how harvested fish are prepared
for use.
Trapping:
Objectives:
1. Describe the importance of trapping and
explain why trapping is used today.
2. Describe and explain live trapping.
3. Describe trapping equipment, procedures
to follow, and pelt preparation.
Wildlife Damage Control:
Objectives:
1. Discuss how wildlife populations may
sometimes conflict with human interest.
2. Identify and describe methods of human
wildlife conflict resolution.
3. Identify the government’s role in wildlife
damage control.
4. Distinguish between predator/wildlife
degradation and non-wildlife degradation.
Wildlife Migration:
Objectives:
2. Explain the migratory nature of birds and
how it affects their management.
3. List factors that influence and limit
migration numbers.
4. Explain the importance of International
cooperation and coordination for successful
and continual migration of wildlife.
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Diseases and Parasites of Wildlife
Lesson 1: Disease and Parasites for
Wildlife
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Wildlife Management Planning
Lesson 1: Economic land use and Wildlife
Availability
Lesson 2: Artificial Feeding and Stocking
Wildlife
Lesson 3: Creating a Wildlife Management
Plan
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Plant Wildlife Management
Lesson 1: Plant Sources for Wildlife
Lesson 2: Succession in Plants
Diseases in Wildlife:
Objectives:
1. Describe the role of disease in animal
wildlife.
Wildlife Management Planning:
Objectives:
1. Identify economic land use practices that
affect wildlife habitat and determine if those
practices have a positive or negative impact
on habitat availability.
2. Identify land management practices that
set back and/or promote plant succession.
3. Explain the importance of habitat
diversity.
4. Discuss the benefits of firebreaks and
prescribed fire to wildlife habitat.
5. Identify habitat requirements for individual
species.
6. Measure quality of habitat for a specific
wildlife species and take into account existing
vegetation and human use and management.
7. Summarize the role of harvesting wildlife
to manage populations.
1. Discuss artificial feeding as a management
practice.
2. Discuss the pros and cons of stocking
wildlife.
1. Develop a management plan with
suggested practices for improving habitat
characteristics.
Plant Wildlife Management:
Objectives:
1. Identify plant materials that serve as food
and/or cover for wildlife
2. Identify some plant sources for animal
wildlife.
3. List major kinds of plant wildlife found in
the southeast and identify important species.
1. Explain plant succession and its
relationship to wildlife habitat.
Lesson 3: Browse, Herbage, and Mast
Production
Lesson 4: Plant Anatomy and
Reproduction
Lesson 5: Pest Management
1. Explain browse production and identify
some wildlife species that eat browse plants.
2. Explain herbage production and identify
some wildlife species that consume herbage
plants.
3. Explain mast production and identify some
wildlife species that consume mast off of
plants.
1. Identify major plant parts and explain the
functions of each.
2. Describe the life cycles of plants.
3. Explain the reproductive process in plants.
1. Explain pest management and control