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  • Right This Very MinuteLogin to Hold

    Total Available: 23 (of 4)

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    Right This Very Minute

    Lisl H. Detlefsen

    What's that you say? You're hungry? Right this very minute? Then you need a farmer. You have the stories of so many right here on your table! Award winners Lisl H. Detlefsen and Renee Kurilla's delicious celebration of food and farming is sure to inspire readers of all ages to learn more about where their food comes from - right this very minute! This book needs to be returned. 
    Categories: Careers, Farming, Food, Foods & Nutrition, General Agriculture
    Resource Type: Books
  • RootsLogin to Hold

    Total Available: 1 (of 2)

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    Roots, Shoots, Buckets & Boots Gardening Together with Children

    Sharon Lovejoy

    This is a wonderful collection of gardening projects for children. Twelve spirited, easy-to-implement ideas for theme gardens that teachers and students can grow together. The beautiful illustrations will motivate you to start your own garden. This book needs to be returned. 
    Categories: Gardening, General Agriculture, Plants
    Resource Type: Books
  • Science with PlantsLogin to Hold

    Total Available: 6 (of 7)

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    Science with Plants

    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. This book will need to be returned.
    Categories: Plants
    Resource Type: Books
  • S is for SalmonLogin to Hold

    Total Available: 2 (of 2)

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    S is for Salmon

    Hannah Viano

    In this beautiful ABC book, C is for Crab; D is for Douglas fir; and E is for Eagle. Based on Pacific Northwest artist Hannah Viano’s regionally themed paper-cut art, this lovely children’s book sheds a new light on the ABCs that will appeal to young and old alike.
    Categories: Animals, Plants, Washington County Library
    Resource Type: Books
  • Seasons on a FarmLogin to Hold

    Total Available: 2 (of 2)

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    Seasons on a Farm

    Nancy Dickmann

    This book uses colorful photos and simple text to introduce children to how the changing seasons affect life on a farm.
    Categories: Farming, Seasonal, Technology, Washington County Library
    Resource Type: Books
  • SFC's Grow Local School Garden Activity GuideLogin to Hold

    Total Available: 3 (of 3)

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    SFC’s Grow Local School Garden Activity Guide

    Sustainable Food Center

    The Grow Local program's School Garden Activity Guide offers 23 hands-on activities for gardening, food systems, and cooking designed primarily for upper elementary and middle school, with extensions for older grades available. The activities can be used with multiple academic subjects and may take place inside the classroom and outside in the school garden.
    Categories: Curriculum, Food, Foods & Nutrition, Gardening, Math, Science, Washington County Library
    Resource Type: Books
  • SFC's Grow Local School Garden Start-Up GuideLogin to Hold

    Total Available: 3 (of 3)

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    SFC’s Grow Local School Garden Start-Up Guide

    Sustainable Food Center

    SFC's Grow Local program's School Garden Start-up Guide offers steps for starting and sustaining a successful school garden. A school garden is a valuable tool for hands-on classroom learning for a wide variety of subjects. This guide focuses on getting organized, designing the garden, building and caring for the garden, managing the garden, and sustaining the garden.
    Categories: Gardening, Washington County Library
    Resource Type: Books
  • Shanté Keys and the New Years PeasLogin to Hold

    Total Available: 2 (of 2)

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    Shanté Keys and the New Years Peas

    Gail Piernas-Davenport

    Shanté Keys loves New Year's Day! But while Grandma fixed chitlins, baked ham, greens, and cornbread, she forgot the black-eyed peas! Oh no--it'll be bad luck without them! So Shanté sets out to borrow some from the neighbors. On the way, she encounters a diversity of New Year's traditions.
    Categories: Food, Seasonal, Washington County Library
    Resource Type: Books
  • SheepLogin to Hold

    Total Available: 1 (of 3)

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    Sheep

    Robin Nelson

    Take a visit to the farm and learn about the features and roles of a sheep.
    Categories: Animals, Farming, Lifecycles, Washington County Library
    Resource Type: Books
  • SheepLogin to Hold

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    Sheep – A True Book

    Susan Swan Miller

    Have you ever come across a flock of sheep grazing on a sunny hillside? Shepherds, people who make a living looking after sheep, enjoy watching their sheep, but that's not why they raise them. This book teaches students everything they need to know about sheep. From different breeds, to their uses, and how they are cared for, this book is jam packed with lots of great information. Lots of pictures and a glossary in the back makes it perfect for young readers. This book needs to be returned. 
    Categories: Animals
    Resource Type: Books
  • Soil - A True BookLogin to Hold

    Total Available: 6 (of 6)

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    Soil – A True Book

    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. This book will need to be returned.
    Categories: Gardening, Soils
    Resource Type: Books
  • Sonya's ChickensLogin to Hold

    Total Available: 2 (of 2)

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    Sonya’s Chickens

    Phoebe Wahl

    Sonya raises her three chickens from the time they are tiny chicks. She feeds them, shelters them and loves them. Everywhere Sonya goes, her chicks are peeping at her heels. Under her care, the chicks grow into hens and even give Sonya a wonderful gift: an egg! One night, Sonya hears noises coming from the chicken coop and discovers that one of her hens has disappeared. Where did the hen go? What happened to her? When Sonya discovers the answers, she learns some important truths about the interconnectedness of nature and the true joys and sorrows of caring for another creature.
    Categories: Animals, Gardening, Washington County Library
    Resource Type: Books
  • Source Relay KitLogin to Hold

    Total Available: 9 (of 1000)

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    Source Relay Kit

    This fast-moving relay race teaches students that before any product leaves a factory, or enters a store, it began as a resource or product of the natural world – most likely agriculture. Students will work in teams and run a relay race where they have to quickly decide the source of a product and then race to place it into one of the buckets marked Factory, Store, Farm or Earth. Source Relay is a great interest approach activity for older students! Click here for the lesson plan. This kit does not need to be returned.  
    Categories: Food, Foods & Nutrition, General Agriculture
    Resource Type: Kits
  • Sowing the Seeds of Wonder: Early Childhood EdLogin to Hold

    Total Available: 2 (of 3)

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    Sowing the Seeds of Wonder: Early Childhood Ed

    Erika Perloff, Amy Carlson, Jill Begin

    This book offers hands-on activities from the educators at Life Lab that teachers can incorporate into their curriculum and instruction to help students learn and lead healthy lives. Preschool-age children will engage all of their senses as they investigate and explore the joys of gardening. Your young students will develop a lifelong connection to the outdoors as they dig into the soil; observe birds, insects, and other critters in the garden; and enjoy the tastes of fresh fruits and vegetables they have helped to plant, harvest, and prepare.
    Categories: Curriculum, Food, Foods & Nutrition, Gardening, Math, Science
  • Soybeans - an A to Z BookLogin to Hold

    Total Available: 6 (of 6)

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    Soybeans – an A to Z Book

    Susan Anderson, Joanne Buggey

    Learn about soybeans from A-to-Z through the voice of a tractor named Agri-Culture. Everything your students want to know about soybeans is in this book. This book will need to be returned.
    Categories: Farming, Plants
    Resource Type: Books
  • SpudsLogin to Hold

    Total Available: 2 (of 2)

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    Spuds, Taters and the French Fry Kids

    Kathy Coatney

    Farmer Terry is a spud guy. He raises two varieties of potatoes, Russet Norkotah and Red. Farmer Terry planted his first potatoes in high school with his brother, John, and continues to grow them today. Text with photographs of Farmer Terry tells the story of how potatoes are grown. This book will need to be returned.
    Categories: Farming, Foods & Nutrition
    Resource Type: Books