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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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| The Latest Buzz on Bees |
 Explore the fascinating world of bees with Exploratorium biologist Karen Kalumuck. During this interactive presentation you can find out how flowers entice bees into being their pollinators, how bees see flowers (they see things humans can't see), and the importance of bees to agriculture. Also learn about Colony Collapse Disorder, which is causing once-thriving honeybee colonies to disappear. Click on "Featured Picks."Click here for more >>> |
Crop Science & Technology |
 The Library of Crop Technology website presents research-based information through lesson modules focused on plant genetics, genetic engineering, and biochemistry. These lessons are composed of text enhanced with images, animations, a hyper-linked glossary and quizzes.Click here for more >>> |
| Nutrition and Brain Function: Food for the Aging Mind |
 Scientists know that certain nutrients and other key chemical compounds are essential to human brain
function. Serious deficiencies in
some of these, such as vitamin B12 and iron, can lead to impaired cognitive function due to neurological, or nerve
fiber, complications.Click here for more >>> |
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"Dr. X and the Quest for Food Safety" is available online as five separate videos, corresponding to the five instructional modules in the Science and Our Food Supply Teacher's Guide. The total length of the streaming videos is 46 minutes. Individual running times are between 4 and 15 minutes. All videos are optimized for a broadband connection.| Food Science and Technology |
Discovery Education, the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT), and the IFT Foundation have partnered to develop this unique program to introduce high school students to careers in food science and technology. Download videos and curriculum and more!Click here for more >>> |
| Food Safety Music & Video Homepage |
 With a few clicks you can be on your way learning (and hearing) about food safety through song and video. It's all here for you, 27 downloadable songs, PowerPoint slide presentations with accompanying lyrics and clip-art, lyric files, Flash animations, live concert footage, scheduled performances, and media accounts.Click here for more >>> |
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| Wessels Living History Farm |
 Learn about farming in the Midwest between 1920-1960. Great streaming video oral histories such as threshing during the 1920s and a modern corn harvesting.Click here for more>>> |
| Farm to Fork Interactive Graphic Organizer | |
Learn how oil seeds, wheat, corn, and cocoa is processed into the things we use every day through this interactive graphic organizer. |
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| Cotton to Denim |
 Farming is like any business. To stay profitable and competitive, you have to find new, more efficient ways to create your products. In this online movie, see how cotton harvested in Texas is turned into blue jeans.Click here to for more>>> |
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