Overview
Agriculture education is especially critical today at a time when fewer people grow up in rural areas. Our modules can help educate students about agriculture by focusing on the most important crop in our country – corn.
Intended use
These modules were designed for high school and undergraduate students, and educators can incorporate the Lessons into classes such as Agriculture, Crop Production, Botany, Physiology, and Crop Breeding. Our materials would be ideal to use in an online course or for a flipped classroom where students study the materials outside of the classroom in lieu of a lecture so class time can be reserved for interactive activities.
Students do not need an agricultural background to grasp the materials. For instance, the Corn Production Lesson provides introductory background on cropping systems concepts to aid comprehension. The Lessons also can be used on their own as a stand-alone tool for anyone in the world to learn more about corn and its production in our region.
Lesson design
Lessons (Corn Production, Corn Uses, Biology of Corn, and Corn Breeding) are stand-alone topics and can be watched in any order. However, the Modules (Parts 1-3) within a Lesson should be viewed in order. Modules are broken down into 20-30 minute increments to suit students’ attention spans. Altogether, the materials total over five hours.