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Into the Outdoors: The Amazing Eco Trek Race
A four part video series showing kids paddling, biking, and caving in an Amazing Eco-Trek Race. Teachers can download lesson plans so that students can take their own eco-challenges.
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Into the Outdoors: Beef Food Safety
Understand the process by which cattle is raised, processed and sold to ensure that beef is safe for consumers to eat. This video shows students how cattle is treated, slaughtered, and packaged properly. Site also includes a lesson plan...
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Into the Outdoors: Biological Carrying Capacity
A video explaining how the biological carrying capacity is calculated to show the number of an organisms a healthy ecosystem can support. Site also includes lesson plans with activities to go along with video. [4:34]
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Into the Outdoors: Sturgeon
A collection of four video clips that discuss a "living fossil" known as the sturgeon. Learn the obstacles sturgeon have overcome to survive on Planet Earth from human fishing to dam construction. Site also includes lesson plans that...
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Into the Outdoors: Wetlands Ecology
A collection of four video clips that discuss wetlands. Through these video clips understand the importance of wetlands to our environment, different species of animals, and food production. Also learn about biodiversity, water cycle,...
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Into the Outdoors: Forest Ecology
Learn about the dynamic forest ecosystem with these four short videos. Videos discuss how the forest is constantly changing and how it maintains its function in the ever changing ecosystem. Site also includes a lesson plan for monitoring...
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Into the Outdoors: Sustainable Forests
A video investigating how the forest ecosystem is considered a model for sustainability. Learn how forest can naturally regrow and sustain the health of the system that contains air, water, soil, trees, and animals. Site also includes a...
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Into the Outdoors: Native American Relationship With Sturgeon
Learn about the Native Americans seasonal subsistence practices that allowed them to survive in their environment. Specifically this video looks at the history of the fish resources from the beginning to present day practices. Site also...
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Into the Outdoors: History of Soy
Take a journey with early explorers, sea-faring merchants, ancient Oriental cultures, and American inventors to learn the history of soybeans. This video will explore how the most important crop in human history became the soybean. Site...
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Into the Outdoors: Chemistry of Life
A four part vide segment, that explores photosynthesis all the way up the food chain to show how the "chemistry of dairy science directly relates to the chemistry of life". The video explores using the scientific method to test...
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Into the Outdoors: Technology of Soy
A video investigating the history of the soybean industry. Explore how Henry Ford developed industrial products to grow the soybean industry in the United States. Also included on the site is a lesson plan for teachers to use to view the...
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Into the Outdoors: Becoming a Wetlands Ecologist
A video introducing students to what a wetland ecologist studies. Learn that to study the wetlands ecologist must understand the relationship between the non-living and living factors. Also included on the site is a lesson plan for...
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Into the Outdoors: Beef in Your Diet
A video exploring the nutrients found in beef. Also included on the site is a lesson plan for teachers to use to view the video in the classroom. [3:24]
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Into the Outdoors: Discovery of Nitrogen Fixation
This video explores George Washington Carver's experiments to replenish the nutrients in the soil in the southern states. Learn how he found that nitrogen fixation was the key to enrich the soil. He suggested rotating the cotton planting...
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Into the Outdoors: Cattle in the Environment
A video showing how farmers use sustaining environmental practices called stewardship while operating a farm to protect animals, land, plants, and water. Site also includes lesson plan for viewing video during class. [4:34]
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Into the Outdoors: Beef Farming and Consumption
A four part video segment on how proper nutrition should include beef, how beef is processed, and the science behind cattle raising. Videos explore how lean beef is a good source of nutrients. They will also show how beef is processed...
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Into the Outdoors: Soybean Farming
A video showing the process of growing soybeans. Lesson plan for showing video in the classroom is included on site. [4:27]
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Into the Outdoors: Dairy Science
Learn about the changes that have taken place in the dairy farming industry over the past 200 years with this four part video segment. Video explores how science and technology has changed the industry. Site also includes lesson plans...
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Into the Outdoors: Soybean Science
Want to know more about soybeans? Explore these video segments that discuss the history of soy, the science of legumes, how soy is grown, many uses of soybeans, and life on a soybean farm. Site also includes lesson plans for teachers to...