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1. Orientation

Course Orientation

Course Orientation

Welcome and Course Expectations


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Welcome to AGR3000: Agriculture Safety!

In this course you will recognize and assess the hazards and learn about managing the risks of working in an agricultural environment. You will identify community resources that may be available to you to ensure that you develop safety awareness, and learn about ways to ensure your workplace is a safe environment to work in.







Guiding Questions

These questions should guide your thinking and will be explored throughout this course:

  • How do I identify and assess hazards in an agricultural area?

  • How do I demonstrate standards and practices associated with agricultural health and safety?

  • What are my legal rights and responsibilities for agricultural health and safety?

  • How do I demonstrate methods for dealing with potential hazards in the agricultural area?

Assessment

Important Components of This Course

This course, AGR3000: Agriculture Safety, is worth one credit and generally takes students between 17 and 25 hours to complete, though that time varies depending on the student.

Course Training Rooms and Projects

This course will be divided into three training rooms. Each training room contains several pages of guiding questions, resources, activities, and assignments intended to focus your thinking on related concepts. Each training room has a main project that allows you to incorporate your learning and connect it to your agricultural worksite.

Agricultural Worksite

It is important that you consider your agricultural worksite as you work through the activities and projects in this course. You will be asked to use your worksite and your experiences there as a resource and reference for your projects and assignments. If you do not have an agricultural worksite, please talk to your teacher about the resources you will use instead.

Course Assessment
  • You will be assessed on three projects. Criteria for success and/or a rubric will be provided to guide you. Work through each of the training room sessions of the course carefully. They will assist you in completing the main project assignment for each training room. A portion of your final grade in this course will be based on each of these assignments. You must successfully complete each session and project to receive credit for this course.

  • You will also be asked to work on two important self-reflection assignments, one asking you to reflect on your digital citizenship and the other asking you to choose and reflect on personal learning goals for this course.

Student and Teacher Expectations

Student Expections

In order to achieve success in this course, be sure to read all of the instructions carefully and work systematically through the material and related activities. If you have a question, please ask your teacher.

To Do
  • Read through the project instructions.
  • Set goals for your progress through this course.
  • Go through the information and activities in each of the training rooms.
  • Complete the project for each training room, including any self- or peer-assessments.
  • Submit completed projects and self-assessments to your teacher for evaluation.

Use the Goal Setting Checklist provided at the beginning of each training room to help you keep track of your accomplishments.

Digital Citizenship

Digital citizenship involves being a responsible and participative citizen in your online course. At the end of the course, you will be asked to rate yourself for each of the following categories:

 

Always

Sometimes

Rarely

I am respectful of honesty, trust, and diversity in my work online. I cite sources, only post my own work, and treat my classmates and instructor with respect.

3

2

1

I work at a consistent pace, and set and meet my deadlines.

3

2

1

I am an active and enthusiastic participant in my course (participating in discussions, communicating with instructor etc.)

3

2

1

I adhere to course protocol (posting in the right place, naming files correctly, etc.).

3

2

1

Project Descriptions

Project 1: Assessment of Potential Hazards in Agricultural Settings

The first training room will help you learn about hazards in the workplace and specifically in agricultural areas.

For your first project, you will need to learn to recognize and assess some agricultural hazards. You will explore the resources provided throughout the training room, case studies of agricultural injuries, and if possible, examination of your actual worksite.

Your project will require you to develop a Health and Safety Hazard Assessment Tool that could identify and alert others to hazards that could cause injuries in an agricultural setting of your choice.

Project 2: Teaching Others About Safety Standards and Practices in Your Agricultural Specialization

The second training room will help you learn about safety standards and practices that help to create a safe agricultural environment.

For your second project, you will focus on safety standards and practices in your agricultural area of specialization. You will demonstrate standards/practices of health and safety that address potential hazards on your worksite by choosing two of the following concerns: fire, electrical use, ladder use, confined space, or chemical handling.

Your project is to teach others how to prevent accidents and injury by creating Risk Management Lessons or Tutorials. You will help others develop awareness of the hazards you have chosen and demonstrate how to use safety standards/practices to improve safety and prevent injuries related to these hazards on your agricultural worksite.

Project 3: Developing an Emergency Action Plan

The third training room will help you learn how to determine methods and equipment used when controlling potential hazards.

For your third project, you will assess hazards and make a plan to control them. Developing a plan to increase awareness of hazards and clearly defining the process for controlling them are both important parts of ensuring health and safety on a farm.

Your project will allow you to create a Health and Safety Action Plan to control hazards on your chosen agricultural worksite.

Learning Outcomes

The Program of Studies for this course details the general and specific learner outcomes that you will achieve by completing AGR3000.

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1.1. Icon Explanations

Course Orientation

Course Orientation: Icon Explanations

You will come across highlighted areas in each training room. Each of these areas will be an opportunity for you to access resources and information critical to your learning. Below is an overview of the icons you will see and what each icon means.

Icon Explanations

Organizing Knowledge

The Organizing Knowledge component provides you with textual content, either from within the component or from an outside source such as your textbook. Associated with the reading is an activity that requires you to arrange, classify, or interpret the information that you have acquired (e.g., make a set of Cornell Notes, make a concept map, add entries to a personal glossary).

Watch and Listen

The Watch and Listen component includes multimedia content, both passive and interactive (e.g., podcasts, videos, interactive Flash activities).

Discuss

The Discuss component requires you to exchange ideas and knowledge with others and to think about, and respond to, what has been presented in this exchange. This component requires you to actively engage with classmates, friends, family, or other individuals within your community.

Assignments

This section will highlight an assignment with formal assessment. Instructions, links to worksheets, and rubrics will also be provided here.

Quiz

Each quiz you must complete and submit to your teacher for grading is indicated by a symbol that looks like this. Your Instructor will provide you with instructions on how to access quizzes.

Websites

This icon will alert you to websites you may find useful and interesting during your studies.

This component requires you to engage in a more independent search for information and understanding through the use of web searches, newspapers, etc.

Tip/Focus

This light bulb indicates additional content about a particular topic that may be of interest to you or give you a question to ponder.

Checking In

This section asks you complete a series of questions and/or reflections regarding the material presented. Completing these questions will ensure you have the understanding necessary to complete the project associated with that training room.

Checking My Work

This section provides opportunities for you to check the depth of your understanding of new concepts presented in the lessons and make connections to prior learning. This section helps you assess the quality of your work and make decisions about what to do/where to go next.

Porfolio

Save your work to your course folder.

Lesson Glossary

This section highlights concepts and terms associated with the training rooms.

Toolkit

This section provides you with tools needed to complete a skill-based assignment (e.g., by teaching you how to create a concept map).

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1.2. Personal Goal Setting

Demo of Lesson Template

Course Orientation

Personal Goal Setting—A Fresh Start

Instructions


Courtesy of the MB Labour & Immigration - Workplace Safety & Health Division and The Canadian Agricultural Safety Association

CTS is a place where you are meant to become an explorer! As you begin a new one-credit course, it is up to you to gain control of your journey to success. The goal here is to answer the question: "Why am I taking this course?"

  1. Take a good look at the one-credit course you are starting. Review the AGR3000 Learning Outcomes.

  2. Choose one of the two following assignment options to demonstrate your work on goal setting and self-reflection.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



Option 1: Checklist

Assignment

Based on what you know about the course outcomes, create a checklist with at least five course-related goals you intend to achieve during this one-credit course. For each item in your checklist, provide an explanation of why this goal is important to your future goals.

Option 2: Portfolio

Assignment

Describe your current career pathway plans and think about how you plan to use a portfolio to capture your journey through this safety course. What form will your portfolio take? Your portfolio will need to be able to house documents and assignments and a reflection for each assignment you choose to include. Let your teacher know what form your portfolio will take. You may use any form of digital portfolio.

To Do

Through writing, a mind web, an illustration, or another method agreed upon with your teacher, you will indicate your current career pathway and which three learning outcomes you anticipate will most support your journey on your career pathway. The Course Learning Outcomes for AGR 3000: Agricultural Safety will help you choose your three focus learning outcomes. This will be the first addition to your portfolio for this course.

Look at the Course Learning Outcomes: AGR3000 - Agricultural Safety to help you choose the learning outcomes of focus for your portfolio.

For each learning outcome you have chosen, be prepared to explain what elements of this course most supported your learning journey.

A final reflection will be completed at the end of the course. It will describe your learning journey and explain the elements of this course that you believe were significant for your learning journey. You may wish to include some of these elements as evidence to support your reflection.

 

A Fresh Start

You must complete one of the assignment options above, either constructing the Checklist or beginning a Portfolio. In your assignment, clearly identify the option you are submitting.

Submit A Fresh Start—Checklist or Portfolio, to your teacher.

Evaluation You will be evaluated using the Skill Rubric.

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