The Science Behind Our Food is a
National Science Foundation grant administered by
the College of Agricultural & Environmental Sciences at
the University of Georgia
This grant helps to put resources into the classroom that school systems may not
otherwise be able to provide for teachers. We find that most teachers want to incorporate many more things into their
classrooms but, because of budgetary and time constraints, are unable to do so. Our goal is to help these science classrooms
incorporate more hands-on and inquiry-based methods of learning.
We are doing this by providing:
1. Additional materials for grant-related science experiments that school systems do not have the money for.
2. Help in the classrooms in the form of graduate teaching fellows, who can lend their academic experience to creating fun,
exciting science experiments that relate to real-life subjects and issues.
