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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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| Epigenetics |
 The development and maintenance of an organism is orchestrated by a set of chemical reactions that switch parts of the genome off and on at strategic times and locations. Epigenetics is the study of these reactions. Can what you eat change your chemical reactions and gene expression? Click here for more >>> |
| NRCS - Soil Education |
 This recently launched website from the Natural Resources Conservation Service, offers teachers facts about soils, lesson plans, access to a free photo gallery, and a great movie about the movement of water in soil.Click here for more >>> |
| Go Native with Guayule! |
 Perhaps the single most valuable gift the desert-dwelling guayule plant offers
us is its superb natural latex. But guayule may also prove to be an economical, environmentally friendly
source of yet another prized commodity: energy.Click here for more >>> |
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Some Illinois high-school students are refining used cooking oil donated by the community into biodiesel that might one day power district vehicles and equipment.| Hydrogen-Producing Bacteria |
 The two research teams from Agricultural Research Service and North Carolina State developed a novel way to identify strains of agricultural bacteria that produce hydrogen gas. Using a selecting agent to grow only these bacteria, the teams identified a gene that inactivates the bacteria's hydrogen uptake system so that all of the hydrogen produced is released.Click here for more >>> |
| Did You Know? |
 YouTube video on the progression of information technology, future trends, and careers. Click here for more >>> |
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| Agriculture and Food Facts |
 This USA.gov website includes information and facts from U.S. government sources on a huge variety of topics. This link provides general facts and figures about American agriculture and food.Click here for more>>> |
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CottonCampus.org includes lesson plans, which take an interdisciplinary approach, using cotton as means to enrich school subjects as diverse as math, social studies, and history.| When Nudging in the Lunch Line Might Be A Good Thing |
 With over 30 million children served each school day, USDA-sponsored school meals provide an important opportunity to improve diet and health. Schools can exert considerable control over the food choices they offer and the manner in which they are presented.Click here for more >>> |
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 to AgroWorld® click here,.