Agricultural Literacy Curriculum Matrix

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

• A computer with an updated version of Flash Player.

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

Individual credits are listed on each slide within each module.