WSST Conference 2025

Participants in this session will take a hands-on approach to learning about the many free elementary resources that are offered by the Food + Farm Exploration Center that teaches science with an agricultural focus. Participants will take part in small group discussions and hands-on activities as they learn more about the connection of agriculture to curriculum.

Learning Objectives:

1. Understand the connection that agriculture has to science curriculum.
2. Explore the many ways that agriculture examples can be used to highlight content.
3. Conduct investigations and do activities that highlight the connections between agriculture and science.

Standards:
2-LS2-1 Plan and conduct an investigation to determine if plants need sunlight and water to grow.

3-LS-1 Develop models to describe that organisms have unique and diverse life cycles but all have in common birth, growth, reproduction, and death.

4-LS-1 Construct an argument that plants and animals have internal and external structures that function to support survival, growth, behavior, and reproduction.

5-LS-1 Support an argument that plants get the materials they need for growth chiefly from air and water.

5-ESS2-2 Describe and graph the amounts and percentages of water and fresh water in various reservoirs to provide evidence about the distribution of water on Earth.