Completed Competitive Grant

Agriculture and science link through the Living Soil

Project ID: 1995-09

Abstract

This project tested a curriculum and team-teaching model to enhance secondary student awareness of how soil health, as enhanced by earthworm activity, plays an important role in sustainable agriculture. Evaluation revealed that team teaching was effective in conveying this material to students. A follow-up project will adapt the curriculum for science classes (grades 3 to 12) throughout Iowa.

Lead investigator: Eldon Weber, ISU Agricultural Education and Studies, et al

Year of grant completion: 1996

This competitive grant project was part of the Leopold Center's Initiative.

Topics: Human systems, demographics and beginning farmer programs

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