Integrating Inquiry-Based Learning into Agricultural Education

Agricultural education may be a useful solution for increasing the United States education ranks worldwide. Moreover, inquiry-based learning has been shown to increase student achievement and interest in content. However, it is suggested that agricultural education teachers lack the resources and time to implement inquiry-based learning in their classrooms. My project involved creating a lesson resource database to provide inquiry-based lessons in agricultural education. I aligned the lessons with National Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources Standards and published them online for any teacher to use. By the end of the project, thirty-one lessons were available for use.