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Welcome to AgroWorld! This bimonthly E-zine has been developed for the secondary educator and their students. Each issue features current events, classroom resources, activities, and grant opportunities that enhance standards based on science, applied technology, and social studies curricula. News you can use in your classroom today! For more information or to check out your state's resources, visit us on the web at www.agclassroom.org |
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SCIENCE
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| Gel Electrophoresis |
 Welcome to our interactive Biotechniques Laboratory. Here you can learn and practice basic techniques that molecular biologists use every day. All you'll need in this laboratory is your curiosity and your mouse – a computer mouse, that is. Try it out!Click here for more >>> |
| Science and Our Food Supply | |
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What captures the interest of students? FOOD! Yes, food can be used to engage students in inquiry-based science — really! Science and Our Food Supply, is an innovative, interactive supplementary curriculum for use in middle level and high school science classes. Order your free classroom curriculum kit today!
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| The Biology of Food |
The National Science Teacher Association high school journal article
titled the "Biology of Food" provides teachers with practical
classroom activities. What happened to make these loaves turn out
so differently? Click here
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| TECHNOLOGY
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| Soy-Based Elevator Fluid |
| Visitors to the Statue of Liberty may not know it, but the monument's elevator now runs on a new, biodegradable hydraulic fluid made from soy oil. Until recently, Lady Liberty's elevator used mineral oil formulations derived from petroleum-based stocks. Lady Liberty has gone green, using oil made from renewable sources that are less polluting. Click here for more >>> |
| Growing Space |
 This 12-page magazine is written for sixth through ninth grade science and technology students and highlights agriculture applications of innovative research conducted during space missions. Learn how space technology is being used to improve agriculture and our lives here on Earth. Classroom sets available.Click here for more >>> |
| SOCIETY
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| Food Timeline |
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| Obesity: A "Super Size" Problem | |
| Changes in lifestyles, as well as higher consumption rates of foods rich in fat and carbohydrates, are contributing considerably to a worldwide overweight population. This article considers socioeconomic causes and consequences of obesity. Click here for more >>> |
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| One in Five Rural Counties Depend on Farming |
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Farming no longer dominates the rural economy. Of the more than 2,000 nonmetropolitan (nonmetro) counties in 2000, 420 were farming-dependent, down from 618 in 1990. ERS classified a county as farming-dependent if 15 percent or more of earnings (in 1998-2000) or employment (in 2000) came from farming.
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AgroWorldŽ is a bimonthly e-zine developed by Utah State University Agriculture in the Classroom through a cooperative agreement with USDA Cooperative State Research, Education, Extension Service Agriculture in the Classroom Program, and Higher Education Programs. To subscribe click here, to unsubscribe to AgroWorldŽ click here.