This fast-paced hybrid professional development includes two days face-to-face and course material online. It will give teachers, extension personnel, and others who educate youth the skills they need to implement many of the Iowa Core science and social studies standards. Using agriculture as the context to teach standards, course participants will integrate agriculture into science, social studies, language arts and math to make learning real and relevant for students. Participants will leave the workshop with instructional strategies, lessons, and activities that can be immediately implemented into their classroom with little or no additional effort. Student engagement and impact will be high with hands-on learning.

During one day of the course, participants will learn about the STEM of agriculture and careers connected to STEM as we visit agribusinesses such as an implement, swine operation and vet. Through onsite tours, participants will gather background knowledge of agriculture in their area. A second day of the course will focus on implementing lessons learned, connecting learning to STEM and social studies, and making it relevant to student learners. Participants will continue to learn about STEM careers within the agriculture industry along with how participants can implement these agricultural concepts into their classrooms.