Resources:

Farmbeats website

ai4k12 resources on Artificial intelligence

Presentations and handouts:

• Aug 1 2023 Presentation

• Technology in the 21st Century

  • Video introduction to the future of work (about 3 min. long)

  • Handout: half page to go with the video

  • Questions: which inventions do you consider to be the most practical/impractical and why?

• Introduction to technology in Agriculuture

  • video webinar

  • webinar presentation

• Introduction to the micro:bit

  •  Introduction to micro:bit (slides)

  • Intro to micro:bit handout for students 

  • Quick followup presentation on the micro:bit

  • hex file with original demo program

• Programming the micro:bit

  • Handout for first micro:bit program that includes all directions and links

• Soil Moisture Activity

  • Presentation on soil moisture experiment

  • Handout for students on soil moisture

•  Data logging

  • Presentation on logging data on a micro:bit

• AI in Agriulture

  • List of videos on AI in agriculture

Additional micro:bit activities related to agriculture

https://makecode.microbit.org/projects/soil-moisture

https://makecode.microbit.org/projects/plant-watering

https://makecode.microbit.org/lessons/temperature

Data logging https://microbit.org/get-started/user-guide/data-logging/

https://microbit.org/projects/make-it-code-it/environment-data-logger/?editor=makecode 
We also have this block-based activity that teaches students how to collect data using their micro:bit.  After going through the tutorial, they should be able to extrapolate ways to log data from soil moisture…or even log the temperature of stacks of hay to make sure they don’t combust.