Ancient Roots, Modern Medicine is a three-part documentary series that explores how traditional plants are revolutionizing science.
Part 1: Jordan: the Middle East
Part 2: The Borderlands: USA / Mexico
Part 3: Curacao: the Caribbean
Presented with teens in mind (popularity, looks, and peer group interests), this curriculum offered students decision-making situations regarding cigarettes and smokeless tobacco.
A statewide project to improve New Mexico Extension's capacity to work with at-risk families and enhance community projects, CYFAR aimed at strengthening educational opportunities for childcare providers and increasing parent education services.
Now hosted at the University of Minnesota, CYFERnet's Web site brought together children, youth, and family resources for public land-grant universities. Materials were carefully reviewed by college and university faculty.
A collaboration with the Smithsonian Institute, NMSU's College of Education and teachers across the nation, the Digital Desert Library was an online resource guide for deserts.
In this educational game, middle school students explore the ways gene editing and bioengineering contribute to human health, plant and animal agriculture and environmental protection. Players choose among nine different scenarios with mini-games about gene editing.
We must "balance" the energy we take in through food and the energy we spend in physical activity. Eat Move Learn enabled teachers to address national academic standards for sixth-grade science and helped teachers and students analyze the problems of food and fitness, find solutions to energy imbalance, and design a study to test their ideas.
This program was designed to enhance awareness of elk, how they move about the landscape, and how knowledge of elk biology can help us better understand how elk relate to human interests on the land.
This entertaining site for kids ages 8-12 includes songs, activities, and arcade-style games. Youth will understand the importance of the Fight BAC food safety program: wash hands and utensils, chill leftovers properly, cook food to the proper temperature, and separate cooked food from raw meat and juices.
These apps support healthy movement and eating by guiding children in fun adventures that build strength, physical development and expand their food-tasting vocabulary.
Information about how to protect homes and families from wildfires.
This video series takes you into the wonderful, wacky world of the hot and spicy. The package includes all three episodes:
Peppers and People
From Seed to Salsa
Hot Plates
Invasive Weeds of the Southwest combined multi-disciplinary research and community outreach to evaluate and promote low-cost, community-based approaches to management of invasive plants.
Workers learn about common food safety issues that arise in small production facilities. This interactive web module provides robust access to training tools to help improve food safety practices and regulatory compliance.
Just for Kids was a collection of online 4-H websites and activities.
Survive the zombie outbreak by managing your finances. Do you have what it takes? Get college loans, buy a car, buy a house: It's your decision. In Night of the Living Debt, manage your finances or be eaten alive by bad credit.
You're a ninja - and a short order cook. Prepare and serve food safely before your customers walk away. Sophisticated gameplay reveals principles of food safety. Redesigned to Theme Park Kitchen .
This series of games helped middle school students make better choices when selecting food by better understanding nutritional labels and serving sizes. It also focused on the importance of exercise and physical activity.
A food safety training toolkit for produce farm workers, with lessons and scenarios to practice risk assessment on the farm. Learn about how decision making and Standard Operating Procedures help keep you and the produce you work with safe.
Science Pirates uses games, songs, and scientific experiments to give youth a better understanding of the "whys" behind good food safety practices based on national science standards. The entire adventure culminates in the player helping the desperate crew solve and 'break' the "The Curse of Brownbeard."
This initiative by the Smithsonian Institute taught diversity and history by examining the evolution of agriculture and food. With educational activities and projects, students learned about history, cultures, and applications to incorporate.
Explore this three-video series. These videos feature the people, wildlife, anthropology, and geology of the American Southwest.
White Sands: White Wilderness
Chiricahuas: Mountain Islands in the Desert
Bosque del Apache: Ancient Flyway of the Rio Grande
SPS Online was a system was developed by the United States Department of Agriculture, Foreign Agricultural Service as a resource for learning about Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures, the SPS Agreement, and Risk Assessment with SPS.
Teleliteracy Assistance for Businesses and Communities (T-ABCs) for Rural Americans introduced the Internet to rural and minority communities, giving them access to knowledge, enhanced lifestyles, business practices, and prosperity.
The game teaches food safety in engaging ways and helps youth internalize safe practices around cooking and food handling. Theme Park Kitchen is great to play in the classroom, at home, or as part of 4-H or Extension programs.
