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Sara Brewer teaches at Greenon Junior/Senior High School, and she attended last summer’s Feed the World 2-day workshop. She completed the biotechnology lesson from the workshop, “Transforming Bacteria” with her Advanced Biology classes. I began with a lesson about all of the components we would be working with, including what was in the agar in …

Shelby Dodds teaches science at Global Impact STEM Academy. She received her Bachelors of Science in Agriculture and Education from Wilmington College. She’s using social media as a way to share her passion and knowledge about agriculture with others! Miss_Agriculture_Science posts about what she’s doing in her classroom, as well as other …

Another grant winner who received supplies from Ohio Corn & Wheat! Mrs. Meeks’ environmental science class at Niles McKinley High School tested soil that will be used to grow their fruits and vegetables this spring. Students tested dirt from Trumbull County and found the soil they tested to have a pH of 8.0 with moderate phosphorus. The …

Grant winner Shirley Singree teaches biological sciences at Washington State Community College. She shares about her use of the free supplies: “We had a great time incorporating the corn mash distillation experiment with our aerobic respiration and anaerobic respiration lab. It was a great addition, as it tested for ethanol production whereas the …

Marcheta Ferguson of Northwest High School received a variety of science equipment thanks to Ohio Corn & Wheat’s generous teacher grant program. She has two Animal/Plant Science classes working on this testing, evaluating soil nutrients from their home gardens. They will be reviewing results and researching what they typically plant to …

Cecilia Sherman of Portsmouth West High/Middle School won supplies as part of the Feed the World grant program. She reports on this spring’s first activity: My students had a blast! I used the water test kit with my middle schoolers as well as my first-year high school AFNR classes. If they could do this activity every day for the rest of the …

Kathy Daniels’s students at Mississinewa High School tested soil samples. She did this lab with AP environmental and regular environmental science, using soil test kits provided through the Feed the World grant program sponsored by Ohio Corn & Wheat. Taking the soil analysis farther, the students had to plan out a 500 acre farm with different …

Ohio Corn & Wheat provided up to $300 of supplies for teachers who’d attended Feed the World workshops. One of the options was a soil testing kit. Warmer weather has made it possible to get outside and get soil to test. Kristen Campbell at Piketon High School had her ag science classes start by testing soil pH. “We will be doing additional …