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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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| PLANTS Database |
 The PLANTS Database provides standardized information about the vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, hornworts, and lichens of the U.S. and its territories. It includes names, plant symbols, checklists, distributional data, species abstracts, characteristics, images, crop information, automated tools, web links, and references.
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| Successful Container Gardens |
 In a world of limited time and space, container gardens seem to make more and more sense. Containers allow you to enjoy growing plants in places that may be considered impossible or difficult to plant.
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| Food Plight |
 Scientists from the University of Washington and Stanford University have found that a quickly warming climate will probably lead to serious damages of crops in the tropics and subtropics by the end of this century. Listen to the conversation in this 90 second podcast. Click here for more >>> |
TECHNOLOGY
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| Engineering Biofuels |
 This video segment adapted from the work of Jay Keasling, a synthetic biologist, highlights experiments to that may produce cleaner-burning fuels from biological matter using genetically modified microorganisms.
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| Space Farming: Exploring Classroom Hydroponics |
 Hydroponics, in its simplest form, is growing plants by supplying all necessary nutrients in the plants' water supply rather than through the soil. This website offers several classroom-tested designs. A great way to begin a discussion on plant needs and how plants can be grown in space.
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| Big Green Machines |
 Take a virtual tour of the John Deere manufacturing plant in Moline, Illinois. See how a $250,000 combine is built and used in the field.
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SOCIETY
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| A World Without Farmers - One Hungry Planet |
 Imagine a world without farmers. This fast-paced video puts together farm facts with agricultural outcomes.
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| Taxing Caloric Sweetened Beverages to Curb Obesity |
 ERS researchers found that a 20% tax on caloric sweetened beverages could reduce consumption, calorie intake, and body weight even after accounting for increased consumption of alternative beverages.
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| History of Chocolate |
 Learn about the history of chocolate, from the old world to the new world. This History Channel movie segment links to several other movies on the delicious subject of chocolate.
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