HOT SITES for COOL SCIENCE
Resources for teaching about science, food and agriculture
Come visit us
http://www.cals.wisc.edu/media/learning/come_visit_1.pdf
Coming to campus?. We've got a baker's dozen ideas of things you should see – everything from biotechnology to ice cream making to Indian mounds and insect collections.
  
Fun Facts:
POP A QUIZ
Below are eleven puzzlers that help teach about food and agriculture. Click to download and open with Abobe Acrobat. (need Acrobat? Download here).

Doctor, Doctor my plants has the blues?
What seeds to be the problem?

 

How does your garden grow?
T ake time to smell the roses


How well do you play the field?
See if you're cream of the crop!

Cracking the code
Are you a gene-ius?

 

Bits about Biochemistry
What do you know about the inner workings of life?

 

Check out these chicks!
Poultry puzzlers.

 

Take a walk on the wild side. Wildlife wisdom.

 

How's your horse sense? Lessons about livestock.

Can you see the forest for the trees?
These might stump you.

Tickle your tastebuds
Test your food know-how

Are there monsters in your lunchbox?
You might be surprised

Planetary dairy query
A worldwide look at all things milk


The Buzz
Do you know your insects?

 

What's the scoop?
Are you saavy about soil?

 

From moo to you
How much do you udderstand?

 

(Across and)
Down on the farm
An agricultural crossword

 

 
Putting a science education to work
http://www.cals.wisc.edu/sciencereport
Our graduates get great jobs. Our faculty and students are dofasinating research. Read their stories.
  
You can learn a lot from a caterpillar
http://manduca.entomology.wisc.edu
This entomology department website focused on the tobacco hornworm is designed to spark interest in science, raise global awareness, and foster critical thinking and communication skills.
 
The Virtual Museum of Minerals and Molecules
http://www.soils.wisc.edu/virtual_museum/
Zoom in and rotate brightly-colored molecules to see them from all angles .Rated as one of the top 8 Virtual Reality in Chemistry web sites in the world
 
Have a dairy good day!
http://www.uwex.edu/ces/dairyyouth
Try judging dairy cattle; test yourself with quiz bowl questions; find scholarships; and learn about upcoming events.
 
Center for Biology Education
http://www.wisc.edu/cbe/cbe/K12.html
This web site highlights 8 science programs for teachers. The Center also works to enhance science and biology education career opportunities for all students and includes 5 student programs on its site.
 
Wisconsin Fast Plants
http://www.fastplants.org
Wisconsin Fast Plants are used in classrooms around the world as a model tool for hands-on, investigative science. More than 50 hands-on,inquiry-based learning activities explore plant growth, development, reproduction, inheritance, and plant physiology.
 
Bottle Biology
http://www.bottlebiology.org
Discover the world in a bottle! Hands-on, eyes-on, nose-on, mouths-on, minds-on! An "idea book," of ways to use recyclable containers to learn more about science and the environment.
 
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