Course Title

Greenhouse Production and Floral Design

Course Description

This is a one-credit course for students with interests in acquiring knowledge and skill in greenhouse plant production and floral design. Content includes the role and importance of greenhouse production and floral design, safety, plant anatomy and growth, plant propagation, growing structures, climate control, automation, media and plant nutrition, watering, disease and pest management, and cultural practices with bedding plants, including cuttings and layering, bulbs, corms, tubers, and seed-borne flowering crops. Content also includes the history and importance of floral design, care and handling of fresh flowers, principles and practices of design, floral tools and supplies, containers, corsages, boutonnieres, centerpieces, and holiday arrangements. FFA and supervised experience will be included as appropriate. The units and benchmarks are organized so that the course may be offered in two semester-length courses. One semester course would be greenhouse production; the other would be floral design. Units GFD1, GFD2, GFD3, and GFD4 would be shared in the semester courses to cover content appropriate to the subject of the course. Units GFD5, GFD6, GFD7, GFD8, GFD9, and GFD10 would be taught in the semester-long greenhouse production course. Units GFD11, GFD12, GFD13, and GFD14 would be taught in the semester-long floral design course.

Contact

Kurt Murray
kmurr@okcareertech.org
(405) 743-5489

Knowledge and Skills

Unit GFD1: Importance and nature of greenhouse production and floral design (6 hours)

Benchmark GFD1-1: Students will describe the meaning and role of greenhouse production.

Benchmark GFD1-2: Students will describe the meaning and nature of floral design.

Unit GFD2: Career entry and advancement in greenhouse production and floral design (6 hours)

Benchmark GFD2-1: Students will identify occupations in greenhouse production and floral design and list the competencies needed for occupational entry.

Benchmark GFD2-2: Students will name and describe important personal skills for success in greenhouse production and floral design careers.

Unit GFD3: Safety (6 hours)

Benchmark GFD3-1: Students will assess safety situations with greenhouse production and floral design and choose appropriate safety practices.

Benchmark GFD3-2: Students will properly select, use, and maintain personal protective equipment when working in greenhouse production and floral design.

Unit GFD4: Agricultural education (8 hours)

Benchmark GFD4-1: Students will manage an appropriate supervised experience in greenhouse production and floral design.

Benchmark GFD4-2: Students will identify opportunities for participation and advancement in the FFA related to greenhouse production and floral design.

Unit GFD5: Greenhouse production environments (15 hours)

Benchmark GFD5-1: Students will identify the types and characteristics of greenhouse structures.

Benchmark GFD5-2. Students will explain the importance of climate management and how it is accomplished in a greenhouse.

Benchmark GFD5-3: Students will identify and demonstrate how to safely use equipment and controls in greenhouse work.

Unit GFD6: Media and plant nutrition (15 hours)

Benchmark GFD6-1: Students will explain the qualities of good media and prepare media to use with particular crops.

Benchmark GFD6-2: Students will identify essential plant nutrients and describe the use of fertilizers to provide nutrients.

Unit GFD7: Plant growth processes (10 hours)

Benchmark GFD7-1: Students will explain the meaning and role of photosynthesis and respiration.

Benchmark GFD7-2: Students will name plant hormones and describe the importance of each in plant growth.

Benchmark GFD7-3: Students will name common plant growth regulators and demonstrate use in greenhouse production.

Unit GFD8: Greenhouse plant propagation (12 hours)

Benchmark GFD8-1: Students will explain the conditions that are essential for seed germination and demonstrate the sexual propagation of bedding plants in a greenhouse environment.

Benchmark GFD8-2: Students will demonstrate the use of bulbs, corms, and tubers in the propagation of selected greenhouse crops.

Benchmark GFD8-3: Students will explain the meaning and use of asexual propagation in the greenhouse environment with selected crops.

Unit GFD9: Greenhouse crop conditions (10 hours)

Benchmark GFD9-1: Students will explain essential conditions for the culture of greenhouse crops.

Benchmark GFD9-2: Students will explain light, temperature, and air quality and demonstrate how these are managed in greenhouse crop production.

Benchmark GFD9-3: Students will discuss the importance of water in greenhouse crop production and demonstrate methods of irrigation with selected crops.

Unit GFD10: Greenhouse cultural practices (12 hours)

Benchmark GFD10-1: Students will identify cultural conditions essential for the production of selected greenhouse crops.

Benchmark GFD10-2: Students will select and apply appropriate pest management practices in greenhouse crop production.

Benchmark GFD10-3: Students will identify needed records and maintain appropriate records on greenhouse crop production.

Unit GFD11: Flowers and foliage selection and care (17 hours)

Benchmark GFD11-1: Students will identify common cut flowers and foliage plants and

select appropriate plant materials based on intended use.

Benchmark GFD11-2: Students will evaluate cut flowers and foliage plants for quality and presence of deterioration.

Benchmark GFD11-3: Students will demonstrate practices in properly caring for cut flowers and foliage plant materials.

Unit GFD12: Floral design principles (15 hours)

Benchmark GFD12:1 Students will name and explain principles of design in floral arranging.

Benchmark GFD12-2: Students will identify design elements in floral arranging.

Benchmark GFD12-3: Students will identify flower shapes and describe how these are used in design.

Benchmark GFD12-4: Students will explain the importance and use of color and geometric shapes in floral design.

Unit GFD13: Designing floral work (35 hours)

Benchmark GFD13-1: Students will name and explain the materials, tools, and equipment used in floral design work.

Benchmark GFD13-2: Students will demonstrate fundamental design principles and mechanics in constructing a corsage and a boutonniere.

Benchmark GFD13-3: Students will construct a bud vase and a base arrangement that demonstrate good design principles and floral mechanics.

Benchmark GFD13-4: Students will demonstrate the preparation of potted plants as floral work.

Benchmark GFD13-5: Students will construct floral centerpieces, sympathy arrangements, wedding pieces, and other arrangements that demonstrate good design principles and floral mechanics.

Unit GFD14: Floral business (13 hours)

Benchmark GFD14-1: Students will describe general procedures in the operation of a floral business.

Benchmark GFD14-2: Students will communicate effectively with customers and demonstrate customer relations skills.

Horticulture: Field Technician – CTTC

and

Horticulture: Florist Assistant – CTTC

http://www.okcareertech.org/testing/Skills%20Standards/Agriculture_Career_Cluster.htm

Career Cluster Resources for Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources

Accountability Measures, Assessments, or Evaluation Procedures

Horticulture: Field Technician – CTTC

and

Horticulture: Florist Assistant – CTTC

Industry Alignments

Greenhouse Grower’s Association

Oklahoma Turfgrass Resource Foundation

State Florist Association

Curriculum Resources

Greenhouse Management and Operations - CIMC

Introduction to Horticulture - CIMC

Supplemental VHS and DVDs - CIMC

www.okcimc.com

Horticulture Science Manual, CD-ROM, and on-line lesson plan library. CAERT. 2007
www.caert.net

The Commercial Greenhouse 2nd edition, Boodley. 1998. Delmar-Thomson Learning.
www.delmarlearning.com

The Art of Floral Design, 2nd edition, Hunter. 2000. Delmar-Thomson Learning.
www.delmarlearning.com

Greenhouse Production, Biondo. 2004.  Prentice Hall Interstate.
www.pearsonschool.com

Floral Design and Interior Landscape Management, Noland. 2004.  Prentice Hall Interstaste.
www.pearsonschool.com

Know It and Grow It III: A Guide to the Identification and Use of Landscape Plants, Whitcomb. 1996

www.amazon.com

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