Educator Workshops

Agriculture in the Classroom Curriculum Trainings

Learn how to connect your existing curriculum with agriculture and infuse food and garden concepts into your lessons. Utilizing high-quality, hands-on agriculture lessons from across the country, these trainings will allow teachers to experience learning through agriculture and why it positively impacts student learning.

Trainings include:

• CTLE professional development credit hours
• Agriculturally accurate books for your classroom library
• An experiential-learning based model for delivery
• Kits, resources, and tools to teach the lessons

Your workshop may include one or more of the following lessons:

• My Farm Web (Grades K-2) Students use the visual representation of a web to explore the role of agriculture in their daily lives and understand how most of the necessities of life can be traced back to the farm.
• Test Tube Hydroponics Students will investigate the importance of nutrients for plant growth and discover how plants grow without soil by growing and observing plants in a test tube hydroponic system.
• The Columbian Exchange of Old and New World Foods (Grades 9-12) Students will explore New World and Old World food origins to understand how the Columbian Exchange altered people's lives worldwide.
• Looking Under the Label Students will evaluate food package labels, determine their meaning, and use the Claim, Evidence, and Reasoning model to determine the value of the label in relation to food production practices, nutrition, health, and food safety. Students will engage in critical thinking to recognize the impact of food package labels in relation to marketing, consumer perceptions of food, and farming practices.
Students will evaluate food package labels, determine their meaning, and use the Claim, Evidence, and Reasoning model to determine the value of the label in relation to food production practices, nutrition, health, and food safety. Students will engage in critical thinking to recognize the impact of food package labels in relation to marketing, consumer perceptions of food, and farming practices.

Upcoming Workshops

Farm to Fork Professional Development

Engage in a day of interactive learning focused on teaching core standard concepts through the lens of agriculture. Educators will participate with lessons focused on food, fiber, and fuel systems, aqua/aeroponic growing, and share in a round table discussion with community health and wellness professionals about the availability of resource for students, educators, families, and communities. SUNY Potsdam Professor and WISER Center Coordinator Ray Bowdish will provide a tour and discuss the resources available at SUNY Potsdam’s Wiser center to be followed by a lesson on cloning and propagation of succulents.

Lunch is included in the training and participating PreK-12 educators will receive over $100 of books, kits, and resources. NY certified educators will have the opportunity to earn 7 CTLE credits.

Interested in an educator workshop in your area?

If you are interested in scheduling a workshop or would like more information, contact us at NYAITC@cornell.edu.