Nikki McClure
Today is market day. We hear the bell ringing. Everyone is gathering. The whole town is here ready to celebrate the joy of food. As a young boy and his mother shop for apples and cheese, smoked salmon, and green kale, the author shows how each item is grown or made and introduces the farmers and artisans who work so hard to fill tables and tummies.
Christin Ditchfield
Explore soils and how we can take care of them within the pages of this book . Great to pair with gardening books and a soils unit, also with AITC’s hands-on soils lessons. Index and glossary included in book.
Aliki
The story of maize and the Native American farmers who found and nourished it from a wild grass plant into the corn we know today. Clear accurate illustrations accompany text on each page.
University of California
A complete manual of caneberry production from planting, growing, harvesting, and post-harvest production.
Categories: Foods & Nutrition | Type: Book | Age: 5th - 12th
Bobbi Kalman
This book follows the growth of a tree from the time it sprouts to the time it is mature and capable of producing new seeds. A tree is a living thing. It is a large green plant. Like all plants, trees make their own food from light, air, and water. Trees come in many shapes, colors, and sizes, but they have the same basic parts. A tree begins its life as a seed and over many years becomes tall and mature tree.
Categories: Conservation & Natural Resources, Forestry, Lifecycles | Type: Book | Age: K - 5th
Jerry Pallotta
Author Jerry Pallotta use a variety of different apples to teach kids all about fractions in this innovative and enjoyable book.
Categories: Foods & Nutrition, Science and Math | Type: Book | Age: K - 3rd
Robert McCloskey
Kuplink, kuplank, kuplunk go the blueberries into the pail of a little girl named Sal who–try as she might–just can’t seem to pick as fast as she eats. Robert McCloskey’s classic is a magical tale of the irrepressible curiosity–not to mention appetite–of youth. Sal and her mother set off in search of blueberries for the winter at the same time as a mother bear and her cub. A quiet comedy of errors ensues when the young ones wander off and absentmindedly trail the wrong mothers.
Helen Edom
This lively book is packed with plant activities for your students. There are activities like: experimenting with growing plants in light or darkness, putting celery in a jar with blue ink to show how water travels up the stem, making a bottle garden, creating leaf prints, growing carrot tops, finding seeds and learning about how seeds travel and more.
Collection of Poets
From field to farmyard, to table to tummy, this amazing pairing of poetry about agriculture will entice your students to reflect on what they see on the farm.
Categories: Foods & Nutrition | Type: Book | Age: 2nd - 12th
Rick Steber
Early-day women of the West are depicted in fading photographs: a gaunt, bonneted figure in a long dress walking beside a wagon, baby cradled in her arms, children scattered behind, a woman, looking older than her years, stirring lye soap over an open fire, a dance hall girl on stage, miners watching her every move…
Eastern women were relegated to conduct themselves within strictly-established social boundaries. Western women… not so much. Western women were allowed more freedom, and in the process they tamed the wild west. Read stories of incredible women such as Sacajawea, “The Farmer’s Wife”, and many more.