Hosted by Bureau, Lee, Marshall-Putnam, Rock Island and Whiteside County Farm Bureaus
Summer Ag Institute is open to pre-school to high school educators who want to expand their curriculum to include topics related to agriculture – the world’s food and fiber system. The class focuses on integrating resources and hands-on activities about agriculture and the environment into existing classroom curriculum.
Attendees can expect in-class instruction about agriculture and the entire food and fiber system, consumer issues relating to agriculture, teaching innovations and resources available to them; field trips to farms or other production enterprises and/or agribusinesses; lab activities relating to science and agriculture in the classroom; free teaching materials and more.
Attendees will receive two graduate credits from University of St. Francis or an estimated 30 CPDUs upon successful complete of the course.
REGISTRATION DEADLINE IS MAY 24TH