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What is the global issue students are trying to tackle in this problem-based learning unit?
In recent years we have experienced unprecedented challenges to food and agronomic crops including lodging, plant pests such as blight and insects, and changes in the growing season (drier, longer, colder environments than historically observed).
How can plant/crop diversity, selection and breeding help to solve these challenges?
Choose a prevailing issue affecting an agronomic or food crop in Colorado. Use your resources in and out of this PBL to solve this issue. As young plant scientists, you will and create a pitch to a group of researchers and industry professionals to convince them to invest in your idea/solution.
Students will explore this PBL through the following Units:
Plant classification and Agronomic diversity
Naturally occurring plant diversity
Understanding Genetics of plants
Crop domestication and selective breeding
Seeds for plant reproduction and genetic preservation
Conserving Vegetatively propagated plants
Pest and disease challenges
Climate and population
Acknowledgments:
These lessons and the Plant Genomics Problem-Based Learning Curriculum are signature activities of CAM's Agriculture Academy.
We look forward to partnering with you and kindly ask that you respect our intellectual property rights by not reproducing them without proper acknowledgment and authorization.
The Plant Genomics PBL was created in a partnership between CSU Agricultural Education’s CAM’s Agriculture Academy and Dr. Pat Byrne. We would like to thank Dr. Byrne for his hard work, expertise, and creativity in creating this PBL.
Funding for the Plant Genomics PBL was made possible through a gift from the Morgridge Family Foundation. We thank the Morgridge Family for their generosity and commitment to Agricultural Education.
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