Teacher Resources

"Life Beneath Your Feet" is a program that has both 'classroom visit' and 'field trip' versions. Gradeschool students get to view the microbiology of soils with Dr. Loynachan. Click 'Play' to see the experience of a recent field trip to ISU's Agronomy.

Destination for Field Trips

Exciting things are happening here and we'd like to share them with you and your class. See exotic plants and use our high-tech equipment. Interested? contact us.

Programs Ready-to-Go

We have several programs already from which you can choose. Some programs are designed to bring an expert to your classroom, while others are designed to give your class the opportunity to visit our ISU facilities. Please download our information flyer for descriptions of these programs.
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Why Choose Agronomy @ ISU?

Visiting Professor in Your Classroom

Our professors are an excellent resource. At your request, we can have a professor come to your class for 30-50 minutes. The faculty have a wide variety of expertise from soils, crops, and everything in between.
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Teaching Support

Our goal is to help teachers show areas of the agronomic sciences within their science curriculum. If you don't see something on this page that would be useful to you, contact us and we'll try to help.

Class Activities

We are putting together activity ideas and the resources to help you do those activities. They aren't ready yet, but if you have something in particular you are looking for, contact us.

Careers

An agronomy major prepares students for employment in many crop production and natural resource conservation roles. Follow the link to see what our alumni have done with an agronomy degree. more...

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