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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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| Bashing Botulism |
Even though cases of foodborne botulism poisoning are rare in the United States today, they're nonetheless of concern. After all, botulinum toxin is the world's most potent natural toxin—millions of times more poisonous than cyanide.Click here for more >>> |
| Science in Your Watershed |
 Explore watersheds and scientific information coupled with observations and measurements made by the watershed groups. This site provides a powerful foundation for characterizing, assessing, analyzing, and maintaining the status and health of a watershed.Click here for more >>> |
| Singing About Food Safety |
 Use musical parodies of contemporary songs as an effective way to teach about food safety. Songs address a wide variety of food safety topics and have been developed for diverse audiences including students, health professionals, food service workers, food regulators, and teachers.Click here for more >>> |
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Hydrogen is often touted as a fuel of the future, and it's
produced by some of the world's tiniest organisms.
Now a patent-pending "green" technology from the
Agricultural Research Service holds promise as a source
of hydrogen for use in fuel cells that power pollution-free cars
and more.| Genetically Modified Crops: Harmful or Helpful? |
 Get an inside look at the creation of genetically modified or GM crops in this video clip from Modern Marvels. The crops shown in this photo have already been engineered or are involved in ongoing genetic research.Click here for more >>> |
| Wraps out of Fruits and Vegetables |
 Shiny, colorful, and wonderfully edible, the glisteningsheets of fruit and vegetable films for appetizers, entrées, sides, sushi rolls, desserts—and more. How did they do that? Click here for more >>> |
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| Great Fence Crisis - Lesson Plan |
 The invention of barbed wire facilitated the expansion of farming on the
Great Plains. By calculating two household budgets—one for a homesteading
family using wood fencing and the other for a family using barbed-wire
fencing—students learn how barbed wire helped solve the "fence
crisis."Click here for more >>> |
| The Origins of Agriculture and Human Nutrition | |
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This outline from a University of Maryland course chronologically and succinctly outlines the origins of agriculture and modern nutritional information. The text is easy to follow and includes hyperlinks.| What Price America? |
 This sound recording (primary source) dramatizes land settlement under the 1862 Homestead Act, conflicts between homesteaders and cattlemen, conflicts of both with sheepmen, lawlessness regarding use of the public range, the dust bowl and soil conservation in general.Click here for more >>> |
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