Agriscience

Are you interested in animals, plants, or the outdoors?  Do you enjoy hands-on experiments?  If so, this class is for you.  Check out the new era of agriculture where we will explore the school greenhouse, animal science, wildlife, marketing, biotechnology, and much more.  Gain confidence working with live animals, wildlife, food science and plants.  Focus on exploring interest in over 350 related careers.  Experience new ways to feed the world through biotechnology, our hydroponics lettuce growing machine, and animal science labs.  This class can be taken for a semester or a full year.  Semesters can be taken during different years as well.

Semester One Focus: introduction to agriculture, plants, large animals and conservation.

Semester Two Focus: introduction to biotechnology, food science, marketing and small animals.

This is a hands-on course for students who love nature, hunting, fishing, trapping, and the great outdoors.  In this class you will learn about the animals, fish and wildlife you are interested in.  If you want to find a career dealing with wildlife this class will help you do that.  Activities include taxidermy projects, wood duck nesting studies, field trip to a fish hatchery, focus on Wisconsin wild animals and fish, scoring deer antlers, and having guest speakers from the DNR who share activities and information about the wildlife all around us.  Explore hundreds of careers working with wildlife from DNR biologists, foresters and outdoor experiences.  Gain hands-on knowledge of wildlife and how they affect Wisconsin including wildlife and fish ecology, waterfowl management, career exploration, invasive species and more.

This is a course for students who love animals and want to learn more about animal science.  In this course we will study animal anatomy, production, rights, behavior, feeding, care, reproduction and genetics.  We will work with live animals, and you can even incorporate your own animals into class labs and projects.  Learn more about caring for your pet, or what it takes to get a career working with animals.  Activities will include having veterinarian guest speakers, having your own class lab animals, working with live animals in lab, animal behavior studies, field trips and learning basic veterinary procedures.  Explore hundreds of careers directly related to animal science and animal behavior.

Note: This course can fulfill .5 credit of science toward high school graduation requirements and college admission.

NTC will grant dual credit to junior and senior students who earn a C+ or better.  Sophomore students must earn an A for credit.  This course is offered for 3 college level credits for free.

NTC Equivalent Class: Introduction to Animal Science #10-091-104, 3 credits (Department: Animal Husbandry)

This is a hands-on course for students who enjoy plants, creating landscapes and running a greenhouse from start to finish.  You will finish the year with the annual greenhouse plant sale, selling the plants you grew to the community.  Activities will include designing and creating landscapes, field trips, growing your own plants in the greenhouse, business planning/marketing, agronomy, land use management, pruning trees and learning from greenhouse operators and florists.  Explore hundreds of careers related to plant science, agronomy, marketing, landscaping, natural resources, and numerous other careers that stem from plant production.

Note: This course can fulfill .5 credit of science toward high school graduation requirements and college admission.

NTC will grant dual credit to junior and senior students who earn a C+ or better.  Sophomore students must earn an A for credit.  This course is offered for 2 college level credits for free.

NTC Equivalent Class: Container Gardening #31-001-101, 1 credit and Orientation to the Greenhouse Industry #31-001-100, 1 credit (Department: Horticulture)

This is a hands-on course that deals with the outdoors and focuses on forestry, wildlife, and land conservation.  If you are interested in working outside or finding a job in natural resources or the DNR, take this class.  Activities include running a saw mill, building and putting up wood duck houses, deer processing, land zoning and descriptions, working with foresters at active logging sites, real issues in conservation, spending time at the School Forest, orienteering, soil management, and doing real-life deer population surveys.

Note: This course can fulfill .5 credit of science toward high school graduation requirements and college admission.

NTC will grant dual credit to junior and senior students who earn a C+ or better.  Sophomore students must earn an A for credit.  This course is offered for 2 college level credits for free.

NTC Equivalent Class: Introduction to Soils #10-093-102, 2 credits (Department: Crop Science)