For Students
High Steaks! A Beef Marketing Competition
Use your creativity and develop a marketing strategy for beef! Learn about agriculture careers, nutrition, and the beef industry. You can win up to $200 and a beef lunch for your classroom. The 2024 High Steaks! Beef Marketing Competition has closed. Be sure to check back in 2024-2025 to learn more about how to participate!
Congratulations 2024 Winners! Learn More
Gobble Up! A Turkey Marketing Competition
Use your creativity and develop a marketing strategy for turkey! Learn about agriculture careers, nutrition, and the turkey industry. You can win up to $200 and a turkey lunch for your classroom. The 2023 Gobble Up! Turkey Marketing Competition has closed. Be sure to check back in the fall for the 2024 contest!
Congratulations 2023 Winners! Learn More
A Bushel of Stories: A Student Writing Competition
Iowa students in grades 3-8 are welcome to participate in this competition. Judging and publishing of A Bushel of Stories submissions has been paused for an indefinite period.
Check out the 2023 winning books here.
PizzaThon: A Farm-to-Table Pizza Competition
Engage grades K-5 Iowa students in the science and social studies of producing pizza ingredients! Use curated lesson plans and resources to teach the concepts necessary to complete the project. Check back during the 2024-2025 school year to learn how your school can participate.
Links & Resources
- My American Farm - These interactive games teach agriculture in a whole new and fun way. Players learn where food comes from and how those products get from the farm to their dinner plate.
- C6 Bio Farm - Learn about topics including the environment, sustainability, carbon, agricultural production, bioenergy, and engineering in a fun and interactive way! Download the iPad app and get started!
- Pod to Plate - The place to learn about soybeans and agriculture…from seed to your dinner plate.
- Risk Ranch - Risk Ranch is a fun and fast-paced, single-player game challenging you to take on the role of a modern-day farmer and bring your steer to market. Avoid risks, allocate your coins wisely and purchase Futures to protect your investment…It’s up to you to safely raise your steer and make a profit in a totally new world.
- Plant Nutrition Academy - Ever wonder what a plant needs to grow? Fun games and so much more. Check them out!
- My Food Science Lab - Help keep food safe for consumers and learn basic lab techniques and practices along the way!
- Journey 2050 - Enjoy a virtual simulation that explores world food sustainability. Make decisions that impact society, the environment, and the economy on a local and global scale. Experience the lives of three farm families in Kenya, India, and Canada. Our Journey to feeding the world has started. Join us.
- Farmers 2050: Grow crops, raise livestock, craft and sell goods and engage with local and global partners as you level up. Feeding the world relies on balancing your economic, social, and environmental sustainability so strive to be a leader. Along the way, real farmers from across the world will show you what they are doing on their farms.
- Agriculture Product Puzzle
- Farm Fact Finder
- Where is Agriculture coloring sheet
- Feeding the Future Provide a corn crop with the nutrients it needs to grow. Ready. Set. Grow!
- Crops, Plants, and More: Learn About Farming! - A collection of resources that help you understand some of the basics of agriculture.
- Crops Feed the World: Crops feed the World is an online resource that is available for anyone to use. To access click the link for an article about the program, within the article is a link to the ISU Moodle. Participants will need to create an account. After logging in, click 4-H programs, and Crops feed the World is the first option. Each unit has its own lesson plan, hands-on, and online components.
- ABCs of Corn: Students will learn a lot about CORN while reading verses, corn facts, doing internet or field research, or giving their opinion.