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Providing Agriculture-Related Nutrition Education: Resources
Providing Agriculture-Related Nutrition Education: Resources
- Center for Dairy Excellence
The Center for Dairy Excellence aims to create partnerships and coordinate resources to promote the dairy industry in Pennsylvania. They have developed the "Discover Dairy" lesson series in collaboration with the Pennsylvania Dairy Promotion Program. This web-based lesson series includes video, lessons, classroom activities, and computer-based games to show students the contributions dairy farms make to the local community. It can be found at www.discoverdairy.com.
- Pennsylvania Farm Bureau – Ag in the Classroom
- Penn State Extension
Penn State Cooperative Extension provides information and education based on University research. Check the
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Penn State Cooperative Extension site to learn about Cooperative Extension and what it has to offer.
Contact your localPenn State Cooperative Extension office to learn what is available in your area. - USDA’s Agriculture in the Classroom Website
This site provides up-to-date information to use in the classroom and an online searchable database that lists hundreds of resources designed to help educators find classroom materials to increase agricultural literacy among their students.
- Handling Fresh Produce in Classrooms (The Institute of Child Nutrition)
See The Institute of Child Nutrition’s guidance for food safety for taste-testing produce in the classroom..
Go to Produce Safety Fact Sheets, Produce Safety Best Practices Fact Sheets website.
