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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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| Year of Science 2009 |
The Year of Science 2009 is a national celebration of science to engage the public in science and improve public understanding about how science works, why it matters, and who scientists are and what they do.Click here for more >>> |
| Stream Side Science |
 The Stream Side Science Curriculum is a set of 11 water-related activities and lesson plans. This curriculum was a collaborative effort involving Utah State University and the Utah State Office of Education. These activities have been extensively tested in the classroom and modified according to teacher feedback.Click here for more >>> |
| Nature's Partners: Pollinators, Plants, & You |
 Observable decreases in wild populations of bees, butterflies, and moths are of great concern to producers of fruits, vegetables, nuts, alfalfa, and flowers. These crops depend on wild and domestic pollinators. This introductory curriculum has been written for upper elementary students but the content and classroom activities are easily adapted to middle school science students.Click here for more >>> |
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Check out this virtual tour of "Power Plants" at the U.S. National Arboretum. This website highlights a selection of plants that may serve as a valuable source of bioenergy now—or may help fuel our future. These plants—the raw materials for biofuels—have a wide range of attributes. Some like corn and sugarcane are already used to produce ethanol or, like soybeans, to produce biodiesel.| USDA 2005-2010 Employment Opportunities Report Booklet |
 This full-color, 16-page booklet describes projected job opportunities for U.S. college graduates in the food, agricultural, and natural resources system for the years 2005-2010. It highlights areas where graduating students are most likely to find jobs. The publication also describes factors that are driving trends in the job market, as well as characteristics of students graduating from U.S. Colleges of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Forestry, and Veterinary Medicine.Click here for more >>> |
| Guts & Bolts: Combine |
 Why is it called a combine? This machine combines cutting, threshing, separating, and cleaning to get ready to mill wheat. Like big machines? Be sure to also check out the world's largest combine.Click here for more >>> |
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| CAN LOW-INCOME AMERICANS AFFORD A HEALTHY DIET? |
 Low-income households tend to consume less nutritious diets than other households, and they do not meet Federal recommendations for consumption of fruit, vegetables, whole grains, and low-fat dairy products. For many Americans, achieving an affordable healthy diet will require a shift from less nutritious food to nutrient-dense foods such as fruits and vegetables.Click here for more>>> |
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What is the system that gets food from farm to table and how does this system affect the
environment? In this curriculum unit students learn about our complex and highly technological, global food system and how parts of this system interact and influence each other—critical
ideas in science. This curriculum has been written for upper elementary students but the content and classroom activities are easily adapted to middle school science or family and consumer science students.| Eli Whitney's Cotton Gin |
 Separating the cotton seeds from the cotton fiber was a labor-intensive proposition before the invention of the cotton gin. As you watch the operation of the gin, think both about the relatively simple construction of the machine and how the gin reduced the labor involved in this phase of cotton production.Click here for more >>> |
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