Active learning modules to help students understand the role of cover crop species selection and design of mixed species cover crop plantings on multiple ecosystem services. Our current goal is to integrate lessons-learned from 8 years of research and extension activities into undergraduate education modules that can be widely distributed. Students completing these modules would be able to describe why cover crops are used, how different species of cover crop affect an array of ecosystem functions, how mixtures can be used to increase the multifunctionality of cover cropping systems, and factors that control mixture growth across sites. If the modules are delivered in the following order then these concepts build sequentially.
- Subject:
- Agriculture
- Applied Science
- Biology
- Career and Technical Education
- Ecology
- Environmental Science
- Life Science
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab
- Case Study
- Diagram/Illustration
- Interactive
- Lesson
- Lesson Plan
- Module
- Student Guide
- Author:
- Barbara Bariabar
- Catalina Mejia
- David Mortenson
- Imtiaz Ahmad
- Joseph Amsili
- Mary Barbercheck
- Michael Cahill
- Richard Smith
- Sarah Isbell
- Tara Pisani Gareau
- Jason Kaye
- Date Added:
- 08/28/2020