Food and Fiber for the 21st Century is a resource guide for elementary school teachers to use as a classroom aid in teaching agriculture. The entire resource guide can be accessed by visiting the links listed below.  The entire guide is also available on CD.

Foreword

Unit 1 - Agriculture–Touching Us Daily
What's for Lunch?
Agriculture–In Touch With You Daily
Agricultural Heroes
From Seed to Harvest
How Does My Garden Grow?

Unit 2 - The Earth Under Our Feet
A Thin Slice of Soil
What is Soil?
Where Does the Water Go? Part I, Permeability
Where Does the Water Go? Part II, Runoff
Making Your Own Bio-Degradable Planter

Unit 3 - Plants We Eat, Wear and Use
The Seemingly Simple Soybean
The Amazing Peanut
Corn...America's Golden Harvest
Cotton...Touching Us Daily
Wheat...The Staff of Life
Rice...From Farm to Table
Grain Sorghum in Texas
All About Trees

Unit 4 - Plant Science Activities
Roots and Stems and Leaves, Oh My!
Plant Parts We Eat
Plant Power - "A Seed Spectacle"
Plant Needs - Light, Water and Air
Will It Sprout?

Unit 5 - Livestock in Our Lives
Hen to Home
From an Egg–To a Chick
From Moo to Meat and More!
From Moo to Milk and More!
Everything But the Oink!
Sheep N' More
Goats-A-Long Way

Unit 6 - What the Heck is Biotech???
Biotech

State and National AITC Contacts
AITC Consortium
AITC State Contacts
American Farm Bureau Federation Foundation for Agriculture

Contributors

Contact Tad Duncan for more information

 

 


 

Food and Fiber for 21st Century

Summer Ag Institute

Lesson Plans

Additional Teacher Resources

Ag Literacy Links

Coloring Book

AITC workshops