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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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| Pollen: Love is in the Air |
This National Geographic photo gallery and the featured article explain how plants reproduce and the role of pollen. The images explore the uniqueness of pollen grains and would be a great introduction to any discussion on the sexual reproduction of plants.Click here for more >>> |
| National Lab Day - More than a Day, May 2010 |
National Lab Day is more than just a day.Volunteers— university students, scientists, engineers, other STEM professionals and, more broadly, members of the community—will work together with educators and students to improve labs and discovery-based science experiences for students in grades 6-12.Click here for more >>> |
| Plant Germplasm: Preserving our Future |
 If it were a museum, chances are it would be better known. But the U.S. National Plant Germplasm System is a vital network of genebanks where plants from around the world are curated, propagated, analyzed, and distributed for scientific use.Click here for more >>> |
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Chicken feathers are shredded, powdered, converted to pellets, and then, with the use of an injection molder, transformed into biodegradable pots. Learn how this poultry byproduct may be recycled in your next flower pot.| Solar Energy Down on the Farm |
In this short video clip a vegetable farmer explains why he uses solar energy on his farm in Missouri to power an irrigation system. Click here for more >>> |
| Science, Technology, and Prospects for Growth |
 Recent increases in inflation-adjusted crop prices have sparked renewed interest in the potential for continued increases in crop yields, particularly since increases in crop yields could affect food security, bioenergy production, and the nation’s response to global climate change. Continued scientific advances could accelerate the rate of growth in corn yields, but achieving a nationwide yield of 300 bushels per acre by 2030 would require a tripling of the projected growth rate, and would be historically unprecedented..Click here for more >>> |
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| Harvest of History |
 This website explores a farming "village" to discover how our foodways have changed over the past 200 years. The teacher's page on this site includes four curriculum modules that review agricultural history for middle school history students.Click here for more >>> |
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Travel through 500 years and from coast to coast as you explore how Americans grow, prepare, and serve foods. Through this activity, you will discover how American cuisine is a product of both our regional uniqueness and international diversity. | The Westward Movement? |
 This sound recording by the Resettlement Administration dramatizes the westward march of pioneers through hardships and Indian, ambushes and their influence on soil erosion in the Midwest. Series of brief dramatic episodes cover, in very general terms, the Westward Movement, the influence of the Kansas-Nebraska Act on homesteading, the impact of the railroads, land frauds, and the beginning of soil erosion leading finally to the "Dust Bowl" crisis.Click here for more >>> |
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