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Whole Grains Council: Whole Grains 101

For Students 9th - 10th
Whole grains are an important part of your diet. This article discusses the advantages of whole grains, how you can incorporate them into your meals, and there are even some recipes to try.
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The Grain Chain: Measuring Energy

For Students 3rd - 5th
Read about how we measure energy from food and what a calorie is.
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Encyclopedia of Food: Amaranth

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Identify nutritional information, uses for, and ways to prepare the ancient grain, amaranth.
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Physics.org: A Grain of Sand Covers 10,000 Galaxies

For Students 9th - 10th
A fascinating look at how big our solar system really is. Shows how we can only see a tiny bit of our vast universe.
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Tour Italy: Agriculture in the Roman Empire

For Students 9th - 10th
This site discusses the importance of agricultural products, particularly grain, as trade products of the Early Roman Empire.
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This Is Sand

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Remember sand art? Now you can experience all the fun without the mess. Drag and drop streams of virtual sand grains to create surreal landscapes of color. The perfect marriage of Flash programming and artistic inventiveness.
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San Diego Zoo: Kids: Bee

For Students K - 1st
Bees fly from flower to flower, sipping nectar and collecting grains of pollen. Bees have a special tongue that sucks up the nectar and a crop in their throat for storing it until they get back to the hive, where it is turned into honey...
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National Gallery of Art: Against the Grain the Woodcuts of Helen Frankenthaler

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection of 43 woodcuts that echo the same expressionistic style as Frankenthaler's more well known paintings.
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Serc: Angle of Repose

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, young scholars measure the maximum slope at which grains are stable (the angle of repose). They explore how different properties of the sediment influence slope stability and lead to different slope failures (mass...
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Countries and Their Cultures: Karamojong

For Students 9th - 10th
The Karamojong are a pastoral group who inhabit the plateau region of Uganda. Linguistically, the Karamojong belong to the Central Group of the Nilote Language Family, which also includes several neighboring groups that speak a mutually...
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Univerisity of Michigan: A Taste of the Ancient World: Pharonic Egypt

For Students 9th - 10th
Pictures of artifacts showing the importance of food and food offerings in Egyptian tombs. Provision for the afterlife was paramount.
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Reshafim: Bread, the Staff of Life

For Students 9th - 10th
A look at the preparation of flour and the baking of bread in ancient Egyptian kitchens. Bread, the staff of life, was vital to all classes of Egyptians.
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Atoms in Motion: All Matter Is Made of Atoms

For Students 6th - 8th
Atoms are very, very small. Atoms are so small that it is often said that there are as many atoms in a single grain of sand as there are grains of sand on all of the world's beaches - certainly a difficult thing to prove, but you get the...
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Minnesota State Symbols

For Students 9th - 10th
Do you know which state has a designated state photo? Minnesota! Check out all of the symbols for the state of Minnesota.

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