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Virginia Agriculture in the Classroom

Agricultural Literacy Curriculum Matrix

Companion Resource


All About Corn: e-learning modules for educators and students

This website includes a series of interactive online modules with nearly five hours of programming on everything about corn, targeted to high school students.

Time to Complete
30 minutes per module (11 modules total)
URL
Materials
  • A computer with an updated version of Flash Player.
Procedures

Choose from the following lessons:

  • Corn Uses – types of corn; how corn is utilized for feed, food, fuel, and other uses
  • Corn Production – cropping systems; crop adaptation; how farmers select hybrids, plant and harvest corn, and manage pests
  • Corn Breeding – corn origins, Native American breeding, corn hybrid innovation, modern techniques including traditional and transgenic breeding
  • Biology of Corn – parts of the corn plant, growth and development, taxonomy
Author
University of Minnesota
Sources

Individual credits are listed on each slide within each module.

Lessons Associated with this Resource