Bring your students to a sale barn auction inside your classroom! Whether the sale barn is in your town or an hour away, this lesson can help students think like a cattle feeder - using math to determine how to bid and when they should bid on cattle that are at the sale barn.

Genetic Engineering interactive learning website that includes:
Journey of a Gene - Learn the steps of genetic engineering to help us make soybeans that are resistant to Soybean Sudden Death Syndrome.
Enviropig - Learn the steps of genetic engineering to help us make environmentally friendly pigs.
Genetic Engineering: Oomycete - Learn the steps of genetic engineering used in the process of developing oomycete resistant soybean.
Farmers, Consumers, and GMOs - The world in which we live is constantly changing. Farmers and consumers need to adapt in order to deal with those changes. The use of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) is one way to help them with adapting. The purpose of this learning environment is to provide the knowledge necessary to assist farmers and consumers to navigate through our changing world.

This document is the step-by-step instructions for planting Fast Plants in a deli-container growing system like is used in Reading Green. The instructions include measurements that are then integrated into mathematics problems that are on the flip side of the planting instructions. The instructions are illustrated by our Fast Plants artist, Amy, to help all learners understand the steps.

This performance assessment aligns with NGSS Performance Expectation 4.LS1.1 and is intended to be used as an interim assessment. These assessments can either be used summatively, as an end of learning activity, or formatively, utilizing student responses to identify next instructional steps.

This NASA video explores the relationship between climate and agriculture. The video discusses the variability of climate impacts in different regions, as well as the effects of population growth and higher demands for food in areas that already struggle to supply food for the people. The video highlights the need for accurate, continuous, and accessible data and computer models from NASA satellites to track and predict the challenges farmers face as they adjust to a changing climate.

This website was created by the GMO working group in the UConn College of Agriculture, Health and Natural Resources. We offer clear descriptions and explanations of a variety of issues related to genetically modified organisms, or GMOs. We hope you find the information useful, and we welcome your feedback. We thank Purdue Agriculture for inspiration, the format and assistance in building this site.

Course imparts information about the care and management of domesticated animals. Animal nutrition, health, reproduction, genetics, facilities, and marketing are all possible topics; Study of anatomy and physiology of livestock and other domesticated animals. Examination of developmental stages and analysis of feed ration for different parts of an animal's life cycle. Identification of environmental factors that affect an animal's performance, and recognition of animal behaviors to facilitate working with animals safely.

In this seven-day lesson, students learn the importance of scoring whitetail antlers, demonstrate the scoring process, and compete in an antler-constructing contest.

Welcome to the REACCH Secondary Agronomy & Climate Science Curriculum! Units in the curriculum provide material for introducing Science and Agriculture students in Grades 9-12 to agriculture, climate change, related issues such as soils, water, carbon, and nitrogen cycling, and STEM careers. Please read the Getting Started section below and explore individual units for more information.

Getting Started
Each unit includes a PowerPoint for guiding classroom discussion, lab activities, and a series of readings.

Each PowerPoint includes hidden slides with embedded Microsoft Word Documents. These documents provide the additional resources needed to deliver the unit. Lab activities are embedded on the last slide.
Teacher notes are included on most slides to help guide classroom discussion.
Readings associated with each unit are in a separate zipped PDF file. A variety of readings are included so teachers can select those most appropriate for their classrooms.
A standards document is provided with Next Generation Science Standards, Common Core State Standards for Math and ELA, and Agriculture, Food, & Natural Resources Standards. Teachers can decide to what level they want to augment the provided instruction in relation to these standards.

In this lesson, students will investigate seeds and the process of seeds growing to become the food we eat. Includes activity instructions, extension activities, songs, and a vocabulary list.

NGSS: Partially meets 2-LS2-1, Extension activities meet 4-LS1-1, 5-LS-1

Common Core: W.2.7, W.2.8, Extension activities meet MD.K, MD.1, MD.2.1, MD.3.3, MD, 4.4, MD.5

Social Sciences: 3.12, 4.12

Time: 45 minutes

Materials: "Seed, Soil, Sun" or other book about seed germination and plant growth, clear plastic cups, paper cups, paper towels, seeds, water

Students will spend weeks observing seeds prepared for germination in five ways:  control (no prep), sulphuric acid soak, hot water soak, filing/sanding seed coat, and cracking seed coat with a blow from a hammer.  By Aaron Magnuson, Branson High School

This course will give complete idea about the followingseed qualitydifferent class of seedField and standard for agriculture crops

power point presentation of seed development and maturation
Seed Germination

This course will give you over all idea about the following topicSeed development and maturation    seed quality and its maintenance  Genetics and agronomic principles followed in seed production Details of varietal and hybrid seed production in Agri and horticultural crops Importance of seed processing - Machines related to seed cleaning and grading  Factors affecting seed storage and different methods of seed storage Seed treatments - seed hardening - pelleting - priming - coating etcSeed Act, 1966 - Seed Rule 1968 - Seed Policy - PPVFRA - Seed Control order, 1983 -Seed bill 2004

This resource is a video abstract of a research paper created by Research Square on behalf of its authors. It provides a synopsis that's easy to understand, and can be used to introduce the topics it covers to students, researchers, and the general public. The video's transcript is also provided in full, with a portion provided below for preview:

"What exactly is a forest? Most people have a mental picture of what a forest is. But beyond physical appearance are values associated with what this forest provides to people and nature. Depending on your perspective, a forest may be seen as a source of timber, an ecosystem containing important biological diversity, a home for indigenous people, or a sink for carbon. A single, uniform definition of forests is unable to capture these diverse perspectives, and applying only one definition can hinder conservation, management, and restoration efforts. Yet, clear definition criteria are needed for assessing forest loss or gain at large spatial scales. To address this predicament, an international research team discusses historical forest definitions and concepts, and provides guidelines for future researchers and policy makers to navigate the complex landscapes of modern forests. The way forward, they argue, requires multiple definitions designed and applied to specific goals..."

The rest of the transcript, along with a link to the research itself, is available on the resource itself.

In this lesson, students will investigate the miraculous process of air and water combining with seeds, soil, and sunlight to create nearly all the food we eat. Extension activities can take this a step further by encouraging kids to track growth rates of different seeds in an observation journal. Includes place-based connection, activity instructions, extension activities, songs, and vobaulary list.

NGSS: Partially meets 2-LS2-1, 1-LS1-1

Common Core: W.2.7, W.2.8, and MD.K, MD.1, MD.2.1, MD.3.3, MD.4.4, MD.5 with extension activities.

Time: 45 minutes

Materials: "One Bean" book or other book about plant germination, clear plastic cups, paper cups, paper towels, seeds, and water.

An activity to help students understand the basic process of how soybeans are sold (upon delivery) to a grain elevator.

Who knew that rocket science could have so much in common with botany and plant pathology? This is a human interest and science story that documents from firsthand accounts and artifacts the historical context and scientific events relevant to an important collaborative Fast Plant investigation on the MIR Space Station. The project coincided with pivotal historical events and involved many scientists, teachers, and students in the Ukraine and the US. The project was called the Collaborate Ukraine Experiment, and this story was written explicitly to present in an interesting way to students and teachers how engineering practices--as well as science practices--are important in the life sciences.