America's Farm

Target Grades:

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, UG, G

America's Farm is a new interactive web site intended to provide teachers, students and resource managers an opportunity to observe and monitor the daily activities of a large, working Midwestern farm. The project integrates educational materials and data into thematic units (Curriculum Building Blocks) based on Earth Science information to allow students to study various aspects of a large farm operation and provide experience in the applications of various types of remotely sensed data and procedures for addressing research problems related to the agricultural sector of our society. Two one-semester graduate courses have been developed.

Teacher workshops introduce teachers to the materials, including workshops on-site at the farm, other locations, and web-based for remote teachers. The next planned implementation is Americas Wetland. National standards that the project will address are: earth science, life science history and technology topics. There will be multiple evaluation methods, including

student and teacher feedback, classroom studies, and surveys.

System Requirements: Web browser / Internet access

Additional Information: Rick Perk, Univ. of Nebraska at Lincoln rperk1@unl.edu