Agriscience Resources

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Food Safety From Farm to Table Lesson Set - Curriculum for Middle School Students

http://foodsafety.cas.psu.edu/nie/nie.html

Basic Lab TechniquesAgar Medium for Labs

http://www.sciencebuddies.org/mentoring/project_ideas/MicroBio_Agar.shtml

Intro on agar, the different types and how you can use them in labs

Innoculating Agar Plates

http://www.sciencebuddies.org/mentoring/project_ideas/MicroBio_Inoculation.shtml

Interpreting Plates

http://www.sciencebuddies.org/mentoring/project_ideas/MicroBio_Interpreting_Plates.shtml

Scientific Method

http://www.naae.org/convention/profdevworkshops/

A very thorough source of information for teaching the scientific method.

An excellent resource for teaching agriscience in the classroom. Has a very helpful science fair project topic finder that you can run during class. Has many topics available and helps your students step by step through the process. Also useful for lab ideas in the classroom!

Biotechnology Labs

http://www3.iptv.org/exploremore/ge/Teacher_Resources/webquests.cfm

http://www.public.asu.edu/~langland/lesson-index.html

http://www.biotechinstitute.org/resources/labs.html

http://www.biotech.iastate.edu/publications/bt_curriculum/

http://www.biotech.iastate.edu/publications/mendel/

Food Science LabsBeef

https://extension.usu.edu/aitc/teachers/pdf/beeflabplan.pdf

Fruit, Cheese and Jello

http://www.uncp.edu/home/mcbroom/Outreach/Ideas%20for%20Food%20Science%20Labs.doc

Soybeans

http://www.extension.iastate.edu/Publications/4H970.pdf

General

http://www.extension.iastate.edu/Publications/4H956.pdf

Plant Science Lesson Plan ResourcesMicropropagation resources

http://www3.iptv.org/exploremore/ge/Teacher_Resources/teaching_materials/lesson4_plant.cfm

http://aggie-/horticulture.tamu.edu/tisscult/microprop/facilities/microlab.html

Plant Propagation Labs

http://www.hort.purdue.edu/hort/courses/HORT201/LabHandouts/labs.htm

Very good set of labs for use in your classes

http://irrecenvhort.ifas.ufl.edu/Propagation/labs.html

Very Good resource with videos and handouts for labs

Further Resources for Plant Labs and Science Experiments

http://www.sciencebuddies.org/mentoring/project_ideas/home_PlantBio.shtml?from=Home

General Links

http://www.agclassroom.org/

National Ag in the Classroom Site. Provides ideas and lesson plans as well as links to all states that have Ag in the Classroom programs. Most of the content is geared toward primary grades, but you can also find lessons and resources to incorporate into your 7th, 8th and 9th grade classes.