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Youth Program Links

Natural Resources Conservation Workshop – This is an annual, week-long summer event held at various locations around Georgia.  The workshop takes place this year on the Middle Georgia College campus in Cochran GA from 24-28 June 2007.  Registration ends 1 June 2007.  The Georgia Chapter of the SWCS has been a sponsor of the event since its inception in 1962.  For more information, visit the Natural Resources Conservation Workshop website.

Educational resources:
Agriculture resources from the USDA – http://www.agclassroom.org/
Georgia agricultural resources from the Georgia Farm Bureau – http://www.gfb.org/agclass.htm
Geoscience educational resources from the American Geologic Institute – http://www.agiweb.org/geoeducation.html
Soil science education resources from the Soil Science Society of America – https://www.soils.org/lessons/
Ecology resources for educators from the Ecological Society of America – http://www.esa.org/teaching_learning/educatorResources.php
Ecology resources for students from the Ecological Society of America – http://www.esa.org/teaching_learning/studentResources.php
Science resources from the National Science Teachers Association – http://www.nsta.org/
Science resources from the Georgia Science Teachers Association – http://www.georgiascienceteacher.org/
Soil resources for teachers and students from the USDA-Natural Resources Conservation Service – http://soils.usda.gov/teachers.html
Soil and water resources for educators and students from the Soil and Water Conservation Society – http://www.swcs.org/en/publications/
Natural resource education resources for Iowa and beyond from the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture – http://www.leopold.iastate.edu/resources/classroom/classroom.htm
Soil science education from NASA – http://soil.gsfc.nasa.gov/
K-12 teacher resources from American Society for Microbiology – http://www.asm.org/Education/index.asp?bid=1191
Microbial ecology educational resources from Michigan State University – http://commtechlab.msu.edu/sites/dlc-me/index.html
International environmental educational resources from the GLOBE Programme – http://www.globe.org.uk/
Soil resources from the International Union of Soil Sciences – http://www.iuss.org/
Project Soil – http://projectsoil.org/project_soil.htm
Soil biological communities, Just for Kids, from Bureau of Land Management – http://www.blm.gov/nstc/soil/Kids/index.html
Biology educational resources – http://www.biology.com/
Fundamentals of Microbiology 101 at Washington State University – http://www.slic2.wsu.edu:82/hurlbert/micro101/pages/101hmpg.html
Cells Alive – http://www.cellsalive.com/index.htm
Bugs in the News – http://people.ku.edu/~jbrown/bugs.html
Soil biology movies from Tom Loynachan at Iowa State University – http://www.agron.iastate.edu/~loynachan/mov/
Science for Kids from the USDA-Agricultural Research Service, www.ars.usda.gov/is/kids/
Backyard conservation from the USDA-Natural Resources Conservation Service, www.nrcs.usda.gov/feature/backyard/
From the USDA National Agriculture Library, http://www.nal.usda.gov/kids/
Water for Kids from the Environmental Protection Agency, http://www.epa.gov/water/kids.html
Earth 911, cwww.earth911.org/master.asp