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Agriculture
Curriculum: Farm to school - Chicken
With a grant from US Poultry and Egg as well as the Kentucky Poultry Federation five lessons were developed to teach Grade 3-5 (and older) students on the nutritive, flexible, and economical value of chicken.
Agriculture
Animal Agriculture Alliance
The Animal Agriculture Alliance site provides educational information for Teachers, Ag Information and Educational Links. This is an easy and effective educational tool to understand the role animal agriculture plays in providing a safe, abundant food supply to a growing world.
Agriculture
Science for Kids
Science for Kids is sponsored by the Agricultural Research Service. Designed for children ages 8-13, the Web site explains how science affects everyday life and why it can make an interesting career.
Agriculture
One Hungry Planet
BASF's eye opening video "One Hungry Planet" about farming in America!
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The Voice of Agriculture - American Farm Bureau
Farm Bureau Store offers teachers guides and educational materials for grades K -12.
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Bureau of Labor Statistics
From junior high to college and beyond, students and teachers can use BLS to aid in their homework and course planning. Students can use our data in their career exploration and to help with their homework. Teachers can use our resources to enhance curriculums using real world examples such as the latest statistics on employment, prices, and wages.
Eggs
Purdue University High School EGG Curriculum
Poultry and egg production is an important part of agriculture and food production in the United States, especially in the Midwest. This website contains research-based, online STEM curriculum resources focused on the egg industry for elementary and high school students. Companion Study: Poultry in the classroom: effectiveness of an online poultry-science-based education program for high school STEM instruction
Eggs
EggMath
EggMath is a collection of web modules (including many interactive applets) covering different topics in mathematics related to eggs; it is intended for use in K-12 classrooms, as in the Chickscope project at the University of Illinois Beckman Institute at the University of Illinois.
Food Safety
Egg Safety Center
The Egg Safety Center, provides education on ways to further reduce the incident of food-borne illness related to egg products.
Food Safety
Food Safety and Food Security
What Consumers Need to Know is designed to help educate consumers regarding food safety. The 15-page brochure is available in English or Spanish. It was produced by the U.S. Department of Agriculture Food Safety and Inspection Service. The brochure offers useful tips for safe food preparation and for keeping foods safe from contamination. For more information, call (888) 674-6854.
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Food Safety
Outbreak Squad™
Outbreak Squad is excellent for group learning activities or in the classroom. Designed for grades 5 and above, it is also suitable for youth or adults interested in learning about food safety and foodborne illness prevention. Use your team of heroes to research, educate, heal, and protect people. Keep the community from getting sicker!
Food Safety
Partnership for Food Safety Education
The Partnership for Food Safety Education Web site has a special section for educators. It includes food safety fact sheets, information on creating a seasonal food safety education campaign, a community action kit, a public service announcement, and a copy of BACTALK, the group's newsletter.
Food Safety
Food Safety Educator
The Food Safety Educator, produced by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service, is a free newsletter that deals with food safety issues. To order a subscription, send an e-mail to FSIS outreach.
Food Safety
Cooking for Groups
A Volunteer's Guide to Food Safety provides safe food handling information for volunteer cooks. The 40-page publication targets information to cooking facilities that frequently aren't covered by the same food codes that apply to commercial food service. It can be downloaded from the Food Safety and Inspection Service Web site.
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University of Illinois
How does an egg develop from the time it is laid to the time it hatches? Come explore with us the fascinating 21-day life cycle of the embryological chick.
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Embryology in the Classroom
This Web site was developed by PennState University, to support the National 4-H Curriculum Embryology project material and help you - the teacher, the project leader, or the individual doing an independent study - become more familiar with the details of embryonic development.
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Destination Ag: Breeds That Help Us
Get from Chicken to Kitchen
The Chicken Breed flip book provides information on various breeds of chickens, including the Plymouth Rock, Red Ranger, Rhode Island Red, Red Star, Cornish Game, White Leghorn and Delaware.
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The Science of Poultry and Meat Processing
The Science of Poultry and Meat Processing by Dr. Shai Barbut, University of Guelph is a comprehensive discussion of the poultry processing industry, that is also easily accessible and available as a free download. The book which provides students and industry personnel with a detailed overview of the modernized meat industry focusing exclusively on poultry and poultry meat processing. The book is comprised of 18 chapters, which include discussion of muscle structure and physiology, live bird handling, stunning, inspection and grading, fabrication and fresh meat composition.
Image credit: poultryandmeatprocessing.com
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Anatomy of the Chicken Learning Resource
This unique presentation is an interactive overview of the anatomy of a chicken produced by Merial Australia and the Australian Poultry. Developed by Poultry CRC.
Image credit: poultryhub.org
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University of Nebraska - Lincoln
4-H Embryology provides some great photos of a chick hatching and some video clips to watch.
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Penn State Extension
This web site has been developed to support the "Embryology In The Classroom" curriculum released in 2001. Educators will find it extremely helpful as a resource for teaching embryology in the classroom. Embryology: The Study of Life is designed to provide you with background information and exciting experiential activities dealing with life science for use in your classroom. Each activity is designed to be grade-level appropriate and has been correlated to the U.S. National Science Education Standards.
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Delmarva Poultry Industry
The following resources are available from the Delmarva Poultry Industry:
- Chicken: From the Egg to Your Table is a teacher resource manual that includes information and activities for use in Pre-K to third grade. Word searches, coloring sheets, and math and language activities will help students better understand how chicken goes from the egg to the table. The first copy is free for teachers.
- Thinking Chicken is a 11-minute downloadable video designed, by the Delmarva Poultry Industry, to help fourth grade students gain an increased awareness of chicken, its production, and its importance to the Delmarva peninsula.
- Delmarva's Chicken Industry: From Family Farms to America's Tables is a 13-minute downloadable video intended for use with adult, general public audiences. The video provides viewers with insight into the economics and importance of Delmarva's chicken industry and highlights positive ways in which the chicken industry works to protect the environment.
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Auburn University Department of Poultry Science
Auburn University Department of Poultry Science has developed Virtual Chicken, a downloadable video. Is the exploration of the reproductive system of a hen, showing the formation of an egg as it passes through the oviduct. Viewers ;see the oviduct in the context of the larger anatomy, explore the oviduct and follow the path of the formation of an egg.
USPOULTRY Education Resources
USPOULTRY 360-Degree Virtual Reality Turkey Farm Tour
USPOULTRY's 360-degree virtual reality video experience shows how young turkeys are raised and the care they are given by the farmer who is raising them. Click on the video in various places and drag the arrows to see the farm in its entirety: up, down, side-to-side, front and back from the original starting point.
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Talking Turkey with Josephine: A Visit to the Farm
Join Josephine as she spends a day on the farm and learns more about raising turkeys!
USPOULTRY Education Resources
An Egg-citing Poultry Adventure
With funding provided by the USPOULTRY Foundation, USPOULTRY and the American Farm Bureau Foundation for Agriculture launched a new My American Farm game, along with a supporting lesson plan, an activity sheet and an eComic. The An Egg-Citing Poultry Adventure game and resources were developed to help third through fifth grade students better understand the poultry and egg industry, with students adventuring through the progression of stages in poultry and egg production in the game. The game and learning resources are free, and we ask all of our members to share them with your local school contacts.
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USPOULTRY Video Examines Poultry Packaging Labels
Raised without antibiotics, No Hormones Added, All-natural, Organic, etc...the meat case at any local grocery store displays a wide assortment of descriptive labels on the packages of refrigerated and frozen food products that are purchased for cooking. For some shoppers, the terms on the labels are confusing. While some may hardly notice or take the time to read them, for others, the labeling can raise questions. This video provides some clarity about the labeling of fresh and frozen chicken and turkey products and also reassures that American poultry products are among the safest and healthiest foods anywhere in the world. The video can be accessed by clicking here. An infographic that explains the various poultry packaging labels can be found by clicking here.
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Poultry & The Hormone Myth
One of the most common...and frustrating...questions for U.S. poultry producers is why hormones are used to grow birds bigger and faster. Of course, the actual simple answer is no hormones are used. To address this continuing misinformation, U.S. Poultry & Egg Association has prepared a new video to explain the scientific, economic and legal reasons hormones are not needed or used by the U.S. poultry industry.
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Raising Chickens and Turkeys...for today and tomorrow
Raising Chickens and Turkeys...for today and tomorrow, a video from U.S. Poultry & Egg Association, allows you to take a peek behind America's dynamic poultry industry. From the hatchery to the farm, chickens and turkeys follow quite a journey as they feed the demands of a hungry world. Through research and innovation the industry is at the forefront of advances in food production while preserving the heritage of the family farm and contributing to a healthier planet.
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An Inside Look at Poultry Processing
An Inside Look at Poultry Processing, provides a look at how chickens and turkeys are processed in the United States. The video takes a behind-the-scenes look at today's high-tech, highly efficient poultry processing plants and highlights the food safety and sanitation practices employed by the modern poultry industry.
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Poultry & Egg Production Curriculum
This thirteen lesson plan series - Poultry & Egg Production Curriculum - provides agriculture educators with a comprehensive curriculum resource needed to teach students about the commercial poultry and egg industry. A professional curriculum consultant aligned the lesson plans to national Education Content Standards in Agriculture.
The lesson plans can be viewed and downloaded online.
Note: A version aligned with California curriculum content standards is available from the California Poultry Federation, www.cpif.org.
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