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RAISING NEBRASKA
http://raisingnebraska.net/
Agriculture is more than a one-person job.
There’s a lot more to producing food than fields and farm animals. Raising Nebraska is designed to let people see agriculture from virtually every angle – from water conservation to soil health, from animal wellbeing to food safety, from invention to innovation, from economic impact to global hunger.
Creating the Raising Nebraska exhibit was also a collaborative effort, bringing together the Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources (IANR) at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, the Nebraska Department of Agriculture and the Nebraska State Fair.
The result one of the nation’s leading agriculture literacy experiences. This interactive experience spans every inch of its 25,000 square feet, focusing on where Nebraska agriculture is today – and how the state is positioned for global leadership in feeding the world.
Web Based Teacher Resources
Many of the educational videos that are a part of Raising Nebraska’s exhibits are available to view on our website, as a resource for teachers to use in their classrooms. Play the videos either in the embedded YouTube playlist, or by clicking the individual links below:
- Are farmers using less water?
- What is evapotranspiration?
- Why do sensors make sense?
- Are GMO’s A-OK?
- Are there hormones and antibiotics in our meat?
- Do cows mind being milked?
- What’s the difference between grain-fed and grass-fed beef?
- What is high-fructose corn syrup?
- Do cattle think like humans?
- What’s the scoop on poop?
- Why are pigs raised indoors?
- What’s up with weeds?
- How do ranchers keep track of their cattle?
- Why are chickens raised in cages?
- What is variable rate irrigation?
- Do juvenile calves have records?
- Why do farmers leave stalks in their fields?
- How are corn hybrids created?
CLIMATE & WEATHER
Here is a website from NOAA that provides some useful resources for teaching climate change basics or general climate science, if you have any interest in teaching in this area. https://www.climate.gov/teaching/resources/climate-change-basics
Climate and weather activities:
https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/0B14RYJguyastczBQSTJISFNzVkU