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Course Description
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CDE Environmental Horticulture Science
CDE Environmental Horticulture offers hands-on experience in many areas of plant science. Students learn basic horticultural plant structures and functions, propagation methods, growing media and fertilizers, landscaping and pruning. Students gain an understanding of plant classification, anatomy, production and utilization, the study of plant diseases, their causes, nature and control, as well as pathogen biology are examined. Units in this course will also cover turf grass management, landscape design and irrigation systems. Students will learn to utilize environmental
horticulture science principles as a relevant vehicle to learn biological principles and increase their ability to think analytically, problem solve, and utilize effective research practices.
horticulture science principles as a relevant vehicle to learn biological principles and increase their ability to think analytically, problem solve, and utilize effective research practices.
Essential Learning Outcomes (ELOs):
At the end of this course, students can:
- Students can identify the Ag Regions of California
- Students can explain scientific classification.
- Students can identify each major plant part, explain it’s function and relate an analogous function
- Students know that plants use carbon dioxide and give off oxygen and that plants use oxygen
- Students know the inputs for photosynthesis
- Students know the components of growing media and different recipes for different applications.
- Students will be able to germinate seeds to industry standards.
- Students will be able to transplant seedlings
- Propagate a plant via leaf, stem or root cutting
- Explain budding and grafting.
- Create a plan to manage a pest using IPM
- Demonstrate the ability to read a pesticide label
- Identify likely deficiencies in symptomatic plants and recommend a reasonable plan of treatment.
- Create and present a landscape design blueprint.
- Students can create a business plan and marketing materials for the NU FFA Greenhouse
Course Syllabus Denise Cicogni dcicogni@njuhsd.com 530.273.4431