Inside the Egg, Hatching Chicks (Grades K-2)
Students investigate embryo development in chicken eggs.
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Pig Power: Creating Biogas and Renewable Energy
After exploring the science of energy and energy conversion, students will evaluate some environmental impacts of hog farming and explore technologies that minimize negative human impact by creating biogas energy from animal waste.
Eggs: From Hen to Home (Grades 3-5)
Students trace the production path of eggs, beginning on the farm and ending in their home and identify the culinary uses and nutritional benefits of eggs.
Climate Change Phenomena: Bananas in Our Breadbasket?
Students will explore the carbon cycle and evaluate associated phenomena of climate as they discover the impact climate change could have on the farms that produce our food.
Test Tube Hydroponics (Grades 6-8)
Investigate the importance of nutrients to support plant growth and discover how plants grow without soil by growing and observing plants in a test tube hydroponic system.
Career Trek: From Farm-to-Fork
Explore the farm-to-fork process of food through the lens of careers. Students will make a career web to see the variety of careers and skill sets necessary to our food system. They will check their understanding by playing Career Trek—a board game that requires students to identify careers in agriculture and natural resources.
The Role of Women in Agriculture
Students will investigate the number of women farmers globally and identify these farmers’ impacts on feeding the world's population.
What is a Farm?
Students discover that there are many different types of farms that grow and raise a variety of products we use daily. Students investigate what farmers do.
Flower Power (Grades 6-8)
Students observe the anatomical structures of flowers and explain a flower's role in plant growth and reproduction as well as their connection to our food supply.
A Recipe for Genetics: Selective Breeding and Bioengineering (Grades 9-12)
Students identify technologies that have changed the way humans affect the inheritance of desired traits in organisms; compare and contrast selective breeding methods to bioengineering techniques; and analyze data to determine the best solution for cultivating desired traits in organisms.
From Cow to Carton: Milk's Journey to the Consumer
Students will explore milk production in the United States and explain the benefits of homogenization, pasteurization, and fortification of milk.
Food Systems Feed the World
Students will explore the steps and processes that create a food system and gain an understanding of hunger as it relates to the physical well-being, culture, and geographic location of all people. Students will learn what a food system encompasses, create a "food system chain," and discuss why hunger still exists despite modern advances that have made the US food system highly efficient.