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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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| Could Cows Make Chocolate Milk? |
Could you take the gene that gives the cocoa bean its flavor and put
it in cows, thus giving you a cow that would produce chocolate milk?
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| Science of Cooking | |
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Discover how a pinch of curiosity can improve your cooking and understanding of science! Explore recipes, activities, and Webcasts that will enhance your understanding of the science behind food and cooking. |
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| Fungus Among Us |
They may study simple plants, but some fungi experts are part of a
complicated mission—shielding American agriculture from harmful
pests. Agricultural materials—crops, plants, plant products,
and nursery stock—that arrive at U.S. ports must be examined
for nonnative, potentially invasive pests such as fungi, especially
those of quarantine significance.Click here for more >>> |
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Some sprinkler heads spray more water onto a field than others.
Some aren’t spraying water at all. The system isn’t
broken. The farmer is using precision irrigation to bring water
to the portions of his field that are the thirstiest. | Biotechnology WebQuest |
 Humans
have been changing their food for thousands of years, and now we are
doing it with biotechnology. There is still a lot to learn and discover
about this new technology. This WebQuest will help your students explore
biotechnology and its impact on our future. This WebQuest is from
a bug's point of view. Biotechnology affects all aspects of life,
even bugs! Click here for more >>> |
| Wool without the Scratch and Itch Factor |
 Researchers
have developed a new biopolishing method that makes scratchy wool
feel silky smooth. Not only does it remove the itch factor, it also
bleaches the wool to a high level of whiteness and alters the surface
of wool fibers to make them shrink-proof.Click here for more >>> |
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| Food Force |
 Food
Force is a classroom tool for teaching about hunger. From the United
Nations World Food Program, the world’s largest humanitarian
agency, Food Force is an educational video game telling the story
of a hunger crisis on the fictitious island of Sheylan. Comprised
of 6 mini-games or “missions,” the game takes young players
from an initial crisis assessment through delivery and to distribution
of food aid. |
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| MyPyramid | |
 Explore
the new food guide pyramid. USDA has released the MyPyramid food guidance
system. Along with the new MyPyramid symbol, the system provides many
options to help Americans make healthy food choices and to be active
every day. Free printed materials are currently available by clicking
on the "Contact Us" link.Click here for more >>> |
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| Guns, Germs, and Steel |
 Based
on the Pulitzer Prize-winning book, National Geographic has created
a three-part TV series that investigates layers of history, exposing
agricultural forces and others that have shaped human history over
the last 10,000 years. Check out the website for broadcast times,
and the educators' lesson plan section.Click here for more >>> |
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