2023 Summer Teacher Tours Registration is Now Open!
2023 Summer Teacher Tours
Discover Minnesota's vast agricultural diversity and bring it back to your classroom! Teacher Tours are designed to give educators hands-on experience with Minnesota agriculture and have a good time while doing it!
Submit to Your District
Need to submit a payment request to your district to attend? Use the fillable form below! Online registration is still required even if your district is mailing in payment.
A Day in the Life of A Farmer
On this teacher tour you will have the opportunity to tour and explore different teams that a farmer relies on to do their job well. From financing, a farm tour, equipment selection, ethanol production, and time for connection at a local winery.
Beginning and Ending Location: Compeer Financial, Mankato, MN
Time: 7:30am - 5:45pm
It's a Mystery Tour!
Join us for a mystery tour where we will showcase and experience the unique and diverse parts of North Central Minnesota. Be ready for hands-on experiences and a little cruise to wrap up our adventures in what many call the north woods.
Beginning and Ending Location: Park Rapids High School, Park Rapids, MN
Time: 8:30am - 5pm
Finding Food for All
We all know that everyone needs access to healthy, affordable, and safe food, but what happens when that access is made difficult or taken away? Join Minnesota Agriculture in the Classroom as we visit Second Harvest Heartland and Open Cupboard to learn how these non-profit organizations keep their communities fed.
Beginning and Ending Location: Second Harvest Heartland, Brooklyn Park, MN
Time: 8am - 5pm
Harvest of the Month
This farm to fork teacher tour will allow K-12 educators to gain first-hand knowledge and experience with every step of the farm to school process. Attendees will meet third generation turkey farmers at Ferndale Market near Cannon Falls and hear about their efforts to supply high-quality protein to schools across Minnesota.
Beginning and Ending Location: Prior Lake High School, Savage, MN
Time: 8am - 6pm
What is a teacher tour?
The Minnesota Agriculture in the Classroom Program (MAITC) is excited to offer a unique summer professional development opportunity for K-12 educators. Our Summer Teacher Tours allow educators to observe and experience current agricultural production, processing and distribution techniques, as well as exposure to a wealth of standards-based, agriculture themed lesson plans and resources. Participants will network and share how they intend to use these experiences and resources to integrate agriculture into their curricula to improve student achievement by applying authentic agricultural examples to teach core curriculum concepts in science, social studies, language arts, math and nutrition.
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Learn more about past teacher tours!
Field to French Fry
Experience your very own Farm Camp tour with RD Offutt Farms! Go on a behind the scenes look at a potato’s journey from field to french fry during our Virtual Farm Camp Experience with director, Ann Vote.
High Tech Farming
Minnesota agriculture is filled with unique and diverse businesses throughout the state. This tour will feature a couple unique family owned and operated stops and lunch from a local favorite that prides themselves on handcrafting fresh foods to make people feel good. We will also have time to share our favorite classroom activities and all the resources Minnesota Agriculture in the Classroom has to offer.
Cows, Creamery and the Cooperage
Minnesota agriculture is filled with unique and diverse businesses throughout the state. This tour will feature a couple unique family owned and operated stops and lunch from a local favorite that prides themselves on handcrafting fresh foods to make people feel good. We will also have time to share our favorite classroom activities and all the resources Minnesota Agriculture in the Classroom has to offer.
Agriculture: Local to Global
Are agricultural products grown in Minnesota exported all over the world? Do Minnesota farmers provide food for our state’s citizens? The answer to both these questions is yes! This three-day tour investigated both local and global agriculture and food systems. This tour was offered in partnership with the Minnesota Alliance for Geographic Education (MAGE) and was funded through a grant from the National Geographic Society.
Soil Fuels Success
When discovering and investigating what agriculture is, many people disregard the resource that is at the heart of almost all agricultural production, soil! During this virtual tour, participants focused on how soil fuels success on a Minnesota Crop Farm.
‘Sota Grown: A Food Pod Project
Did you know that food can be grown in Minnesota year round? Yes, even in the dead of winter. This tour investigates the collaboration of Todd-Wadena Electric Cooperative, Great River […]
Agriculture: Local to Global
Did you know that products grown right here in Minnesota are exported all over the world? In turn, did you know that Minnesotan farmers provide food for our state’s citizens […]
Wheat: From the Field to the Fork
Wheat is defined as a plant that is ground to make flour for bread, pasta, pastries, etc… But it is much more than a dictionary definition. Did you know that […]
