Continuing education requirements for Next Generation Science Standards present an additional encumbrance for classroom teachers who are already burdened in many ways. The Center is ready to help fill this training gap with continuing education opportunities provided at no cost.
On the Farm STEM is an immersive, learner-centric, hands-on event that explores the science food production through an inquisitive, science-focused perspective required to bring high-quality proteins for global consumption. This program utilizes a phenomena based approach to NGSS that will help participants reinvigorate and transform how they bring NGSS to life for their students back home.
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Designed for high school science teachers, this one-hour professional learning session introduces Unravel Genetics to Raise the Steaks, an NGSS Design Badged unit that brings genetics and agriculture together in the classroom. This session explores real-world data, selective breeding, and environmental influences on cattle growth. Using the 5E Instructional Model, this engaging, inquiry-based unit helps students make meaningful connections between genetics and food production while providing classroom-ready, NGSS-aligned resources.
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This program will lead you through the process of accessing, implementing, and interpreting student results of an NGSS transfer task. This module is expected to take approximately 20 minutes to complete, but with the addition of real-time, classroom practice opportunities throughout.
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Everything we need comes from the Storyline. The Storyline is our map. It guides us facilitating the students' exploration and problem solving.
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This module will help you make the shift in your classroom from students learning to figuring out. What does it actually look like? How it will work in my classroom? Get ready... that's where we're headed.
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VIDEO PODCAST
This recorded webinar discusses using basic science education with agricultural contexts to improve our youth’s understanding of food production and distribution systems, ultimately leading to advancements human health and environmental resiliency and sustainability.
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Archived Event from June 19th, 2024
This virtual workshop and livestream event focused on cutting-edge technologies and the inherent appeal of solving real-world challenges in agriculture. However, a stark reality persists: the agricultural workforce often lacks diversity. To bring equal opportunities to all learners and their backgrounds, it’s critical to provide exposure to agricultural concepts through engaging educational initiatives. Watch this webinar and learn how to foster inclusivity and ingenuity using food systems in the classroom!
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Archived Event from May 14th, 2024
Students thrive on tackling real-world problems. This virtual live-streamed event dives into the science of sustainable food systems, showing how educators can leverage students' natural curiosity about food, climate science, and environmental justice to spark scientific inquiry. Explore how food production and agriculture offer a relevant and authentic context to engage students in NGSS investigations related to these critical issues. We showcase successful examples and demonstrate how to integrate all three dimensions of the NGSS to make sense of these challenges. Watch it and ignite the next generation of food system problem-solvers!
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Archived Event from July 29, 2021
This virtual workshop and livestream event focused on assessment for Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). Participants explored the relevancy and authenticity of agriculture and learned why agricultural literacy is important to society. Guest speakers from the agricultural community shared their experiences to reinforce disciplinary core ideas (DCIs) and science and engineering practices (SEPs) and provided a real-world perspective.
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Archived Event from July 27, 2021
Designed to address Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), this virtual workshop livestream event focused on using agriculture to increase the relevancy and authenticity of content in science classrooms. Participants focused on three-dimensional learning; specifically, using anchoring phenomena to drive student sense-making and problem solving. Disciplinary core ideas were reinforced through guest speakers from the agricultural community that apply these concepts on a daily basis.
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