The National Corn Growers Association and Nourish the Future community is offering help for parents and teachers at home looking for activities for their kids during the pandemic which is keeping people homebound.
This program is made possible by farmer-funded state corn checkoff programs across the U.S. which provides excellent teaching resources immediately as schools shut down across the country.
The Nourish the Future team has designed virtual resources that can be found at https://nourishthefuture.org/virtual.
The online platform is helping those at home with
- Communication! Sending resources and offering help
- Packaging online curriculum collections in ways that makes them easy for a teacher to use today
- Mobilizing an advisory group of teachers from across the country
- Designing virtual experiences so that students can connect with industry through field trips and webinars – check out virtualfarmtrips.com!
- Looking at professional development in a new way, combining virtual experiences with in-person workshops shifting to the fall
The curriculum covers topics like Biotechnology, Energy and Ethanol, Plant Anatomy and Growth Stages, Soil Science and Sustainability, and the Role of Clean Water in a Healthy Ecosystem. Lesson plans are designed for middle school through high school, including advanced high school options.
NCGA believes agriculture is a vital partner in engaging students in STEM concepts in ways that directly and indirectly impact their lives. Not only does teaching ag-based curriculum in the science classroom inspire students to solve real-world science issues, reaching students is critical to address the job gap in agriculture-related careers, many of which go unfilled.
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