Farmers Fueling the Future

8-page activity guide designed for grades 6-12. Explore an alternative fuel, biodiesel, do an experiment exploring biomass and research clean air issues related to school bus transportation. Designed using the 5E Learning Cycle, the guide includes an exclusionary brainstorming activity, web quest ideas, and connections to science standards.

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Soy McCoy Coloring Book

Soy McCoy is a 6-foot tall, walking, talking, big green soybean with one very important mission - to have loads of fun telling kids about soybeans! Use some elementary math and science skills and a box of crayons to learn about things all around that are made of soybeans.

Soybeans are Everywhere: Beans About Water

8-page activity guide designed for grades 3-8. Five experiments explore the properties of water including surface tension, cohesion and surfactants. Uses the 5 E Learning Cycle: engage, explore, explain, elaborate, and evaluate. Includes reproducible student experiment pages and a teacher tracking chart.

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Bean Team

Week of activities centered around soy science, fun nutrition, food science and inventions using math, literacy, and science skills. Includes a web quest, trash-to-treasure invention, fun nutrition activities, kid-friendly recipes, and ideas for a celebration created by students. Designed for after-school programs, camps, and 4-H events.

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Cool Beans...It's SOYence!!

Developed with science center COSI, this Ohio Statewide Science Workshop activity guide was sent to 117,000 k-12 classrooms in Ohio. Featuring five fun science experiments with soybeans, the activities explore science content such as properties of water and oil, sound/vibration, centripetal force, and germination. Fun activities for classrooms, after school programs, 4H events, and camps.

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Meet the Bean: Soybeans are Everywhere

8-page activity guide designed for pre-school through grade 4. Four reproducible worksheets direct students to observe seeds, sort seeds, create bar graphs. Includes directions for seed germination necklaces, bean buddies, and stress balls. Resources include kid-friendly recipes for soy lip balm, soy plastic. Great for classrooms, camps,
4-H advisors, and other events.

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Soybeans: From Ballast to Biotech

8-page activity guide on the science of biotechnology. Designed for grades 9-12 and includes DNA model plans, a web quest, and a point of view activity to explore the controversy surrounding biotechnology. Includes a list of resources, web sites, service-learning ideas and connections to the education standards.

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Active Teens - Nutrition for Health

4-page activity guide designed for grades 6-12. Students research their own power profiles and connect nutrition to athletic performance. Includes a fad diet web quest, student eating survey, recipes, service-learning ideas and connections to the health curriculum performance objectives.

Soyfoods: Combat the Epidemic of Overweight and Underage

Explore soy solutions to obesity problems. Designed for parents, teachers, or health/nutrition education programs. Twelve pages of practical suggestions and nutrition information. Includes descriptions of soy foods and soy protein content of many common foods. Kid-friendly, healthy soy recipes such as green mashed potatoes, trail mix, and graham cracker surprise.

Soyfoods: Health with Ease and Flavor

Explore the health benefits of soy related to heart health, osteoporosis, cancer prevention and kidney function. Twelve pages of practical suggestions on how to incorporate soy into your diet. Includes descriptions of soy foods, easy recipes and a zillion ways to use tofu. Designed for seniors and health/nutrition education programs.

Soyfoods: A Nutrition Powerhouse

CD for nutrition educators in all settings and everyone who wants nutrition information for audiences pre-school through adult. Includes:

• Nutrition Powerhouse Manual - designed for Family-Consumer Science teachers; 4 units with student activities and food labs on current issues
• Breads of the Harvest Curriculum - Designed for grades 3-5 social studies classrooms. Explores the history and science of bread
• Soyfoods Powerpoint Presentation
• Soy Health Fact Sheets
• Best of the Best - State Fair award winning recipes and photos