Finally setting up an outreach page! Stay tuned for updates, but for now posting some outreach flashcards on carrots and corn. Questions are a mix of different difficulties, and mostly designed to learn fun facts about the history, production, and current uses of each crop. Please feel free to send suggestions for new questions and I will do my best to incorporate them :)
Click here for a pdf of the carrot flashcards
Click here for a pdf version of the maize flashcards
I really like this style of outreach for events with large booths and/or displays. Having the cards accessible allows adults and children to go through the questions at their own pace (especially if it’s crowded and volunteers are busy). They are also cheap to make (printed on regular paper, mounted on colored cardstock, and laminated). Attaching to some sort of jumpring or string is helpful to keep them all together.
Acknowledgments
These are a compilation of contributions from many amazing researchers. Many of the images are taken from google and, although I try to use images in the public domain, please do not hesitate to let me know if you see an image that you would like credited or removed.
Carrot flashcards:
- Shelby Ellison
- Philipp Simon
- Douglas Senalik
- Adam Bolton
- Charlene Grahn
- Pamela Moreno
Maize flashcards:
- Sherry Flint-Garcia
- Kate Guill
- Paula McSteen
- Jeff Ross-Ibarra
- Bill Tracy
- David Braun
- Maize genetics community (many questions were drawn from the excellent outreach materials that are already developed)