Learners will identify sources of air pollution, explain the greenhouse effect, and detail procedures for improving and maintaining air quality. This represents a portion of the Introduction to Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources (AFNR) series in Nebraska middle and high school agricultural education.

This is a resource to accompany the novel "Esperanza Rising" by Pam Munoz Ryan. In the novel, the main character, Esperanza, by a turn of events, is forced to work in the produce fields in California. This resource provides nonfiction an social studies connections to help students make real world connections. 

Pair this activity with lessons on selective breeding. Students will identify desirable genetic traits in apples and use a coin flip to simulate the steps and time involved to breed a new cultivar of apple. (Photo by Tom Paolini on Unsplash.com)

This lesson plan and complimentary resources describes and classifies common pests, favorable conditions for pests, and the way pests affect plants and cause losses. Students will explain Integrated Pest Management and methods used to control plant pests. Lesson plan from the New Mexico Animal, Plant, and Soil Science Lesson Plan Library.

Students will choose a physical place to study, a site that is close enough to visit at least four times during the quarter/semester. Using writing prompts, text-based research, and close observations in the "field" (the chosen place), students will create a "mashup" of spatially referenced pop-up balloons. These will include researched and narrative prose, citations and links, and some visual images, embedded into a map via Google Earth technology. Through this unique presentation, the research and writing can encourage viewers to better understand the place they have chosen to study.

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Nos ecossistemas de várzeas do Alto Solimões, o trabalho realizado pelas famílias agricultoras tem propiciado muitos benefícios à população local, dentre os quais a “conservação da agrobiodiversidade”, a “segurança alimentar” e a construção do saber matemático por processos empíricos. Com base nessas constatações, esse estudo teve por objetivo desenvolver um material educativo a partir da Etnomatemática construída recursivamente no cotidiano de trabalho dos agroecossistemas familiares. Para o delineamento da pesquisa foi adotada a abordagem teórica da dialética da complexidade sistêmica, tendo o Estudo de Caso como desenho da pesquisa de campo com a aplicação das técnicas observação direta, entrevistas, registros fotográficos, diários de campo e construção de mapas mentais. O estudo revelou que a realização dos diferentes tipos de trabalho familiar da localidade depende do ritmo das águas, ocasionado pelo fenômeno denominado pulso de inundação. Nesse contexto, percebeu-se que ao interagirem com a dinâmica espacial e temporal dos ecossistemas de várzeas, as famílias adquirem o domínio ambiental, elemento fundamental para re/construção do saber matemático local. Outro fator evidenciado foi a preocupação demonstrada pelos agricultores familiares no que diz respeito ao destino da comunidade. Esses acreditam que se as crianças e jovens perderem o interesse em herdar a cultura de trabalho dos pais, é possível que em pouco tempo, por volta de 20 anos, não se tenha a força de trabalho suficiente e adequada para se realizar a conservação da agrobiodiversidade. A partir dessas constatações, construiu-se e aplicou-se o produto educacional denominado “Maquete do Saber Matemático” no ensino da escola da Comunidade São José, localizada no município de Benjamin Constant, estado do Amazonas, com o intento de contribuir para que os educandos possam refletir e valorizar suas culturas de trabalho, compartilhar novas imaterialidades matemáticas, possibilitando-se assim serem capazes de conquistar futuras melhorias às famílias, demais comunidades e ao sistema ambiental.

Students utilize their understanding of ecosystems, economic cost, and culture to make a stewardship decision.

This lesson introduces students to beef, pork, and lamb retail cuts, as well as assesses their ability to correctly identify each retail cut.

This kit explores how sustainability has been presented in the media with a particular focus on issues related to food, water and agriculture. Each of the 19 lessons integrates media literacy and critical thinking into lessons about different aspect of sustainability. Constant themes throughout the kit include social justice, climate change, energy, economics and unintended consequences.

This lesson plan explores the difference between good and poor quality feedstuffs by learning the functions of feed, identifying feed types and characteristics, and identifying how animals are fed. Lesson plan from the New Mexico Animal, Plant, and Soil Science Lesson Plan Library.

This lesson includes lectures about meeting the nutritional needs of animals to maintain animal performance, analyze feedstuffs for quality, and determine whether or not a feed ration fulfills a given animal’s nutrient requirements. From New Mexico Animal, Plant, and Soil Science Lesson Plan Library. 

What do Prairie Chickens Need in Order to Survive Today's Prairie?

This middle school unit covering ecosystems, animal behavior and symbiosis was developed through the Storyline approach. Middle school students will be figuring out why prairie chickens have a very unique dance and understand the role cows play to help ensure the dance takes place. Using this approach, students engage in science concepts to help ensure the survival of the prairie chicken.

This activity starts by introducing students to the ways industries in the United States use water and asking students to predict how much water is used to produce a variety of common goods. After presenting the true water footprints of the common goods, the activity introduces and explains a simplified production and supply system for an apple. Together, the class first practices brainstorming all the ways water is used to produce an apple through a structured systems brainstorming approach. In small groups, students then apply that structured systems brainstorming to assess how water is used to supply an apple to a school cafeteria. Lastly, students reflect on why less water is needed to produce certain common goods as compared to others.

Module 12 is comprised of Stage 5 of the semester-long capstone project. In Stage 5, students compile, organize, summarize and synthesize the data and information they've collected through the semester about their assigned food region into a final website or presentation. As outlined in the diagram below, the final website (or presentation) should summarize the physical and human environment of the food region and assess the current status of the regional food system. Students must then discuss future scenarios for their region for temperature and human population growth. Based on their research on the regional food systems, students will assess the resilience and vulnerabilities of the exiting systems to the future scenarios. Finally, students will propose strategies to increase the sustainability and resilience of the regional food systems.

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Short Description:
This book focuses on genomics and plant biotechnology approaches used in plant breeding, the analysis of genomic data, and their application in quality control measures. The application of alternative genomic technologies to enhance conventional breeding strategies is also presented.

Long Description:
This book focuses on genomics and plant biotechnology approaches used in plant breeding, the analysis of genomic data, and their application in quality control measures. The application of alternative genomic technologies to enhance conventional breeding strategies is also presented.

Word Count: 78625

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Each spring, students in a 300-level field course collect samples from urban community gardens to monitor soil lead concentrations.

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Mushroompreneurship refers to the entrepreneurial pursuit of starting and running a business related to mushroom cultivation, production, and sale. It involves leveraging the growing demand for mushrooms in various industries, including food, medicine, cosmetics, and agriculture. Mushroompreneurship offers several opportunities for aspiring entrepreneurs due to the numerous benefits and market potential of mushrooms

This webpage gives detailed information on the following.
1 Etymology
2 Identification
3 Classification
4 Morphology
5 Growth
6 Nutrition
7 Edible mushrooms
8. Medicinal properties & other uses

It is well known that mutation is the ultimate source of variation. Without adequate variation, plant breeding is impossible. To start a breeding program, the breeder must find the appropriate genotype (containing the desired genes) from existing variation, or create the variation if it is not found in nature. Mutagenesis is the process by which new alleles are created. The purpose of this chapter is to discuss mutagenesis as both a technique and a breeding method. The newly created mutants may be used as parents in future breeding programs, in which case mutagenesis is a breeding technique as a source of variation. However, an induced mutant can be systematically processed through conventional breeding steps to be released as a cultivar, hence making it a breeding method (mutation breeding). Mutations arise spontaneously in nature and are pivotal in natural evolution.