Ground Works/SD Ag in the Classroom, created in 2011 with an integrated program approach, uses teaching gardens, summer camps and digital computer programs to deliver lessons in STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts and math) education, agriculture literacy and student leadership. The program needs your help.

Last spring, Ground Works/SD Ag in the Classroom connected forth grade students and their teachers through on-air radio interviews. Students and teachers shared the impact of South Dakota Road Trip (an online education platform) on their learning and understanding of the state's agriculture and history. South Dakota Road Trip, which is one piece of Ground Works/SD Ag in the Classroom mosaic, ended the 2020 school year serving more than 8,700 students and teachers.

Those interviews provided the seed for a video series to take root. “Kid Teachers: In Their Field” features students in South Dakota talking to other students. Topics of the videos, which are each less than five minutes, range from “Greasing the Zerks” to “Growing Garbanzo Beans” to an explanation of “Knee High by the Fourth of July”. The videos are housed on a YouTube channel.

Ground Works/SD Ag in the Classroom needs your help in connecting with individuals and groups to share their mission and vision in order to expand community involvement, communication and funding opportunities. Contact Ground Works/SD Ag in the Classroom at 605.275.9159, via email or visit their website.