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  • 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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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
  • Sowing the Seeds of Wonder: Early Childhood EdLogin to Hold

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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

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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

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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
  • Sugar - A True BookLogin to Hold

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    Sugar – A True Book

    Elaine Landau

    This book explains the many different uses of sugar. Students learn what nutrients they get from this food, and why it is important to eat a balanced diet. Part of the A True Book series. This book needs to be returned. 
    Categories: Farming, Foods & Nutrition
    Resource Type: Books
  • Sunflowers/GirasolesLogin to Hold

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    Sunflowers/Girasoles

    Grewndolyn Zepeda

    The tender relationship between grandparent and grandchild is illuminated in this children’s book. Children will sow and reap ideas of their own about ways to share a little joy, just as Marisol does with sunflowers.La relación entre un abuelo y un nieto está iluminada por este libro de niños. Los niños van a sembrar y cosechar sus propias ideas sobre maneras de compartir alegría, al igual que Marisol con sus girasoles.
    Categories: Food, Gardening, Washington County Library
    Resource Type: Books, Spanish
  • The BeemanLogin to Hold

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    The Beeman

    Laurie Krebs, Valerie Cis

    Told from the viewpoint of a child whose Grandpa is a beekeeper, this rhyming text offers an accessible and engaging introduction to the behavior of bees, including: where they live, how honey is made, and what a beekeeper does. The companion book to the Busy Bees lesson plan and the Busy Bees Kit. Please check the kit out separately.This book needs to be returned. 
    Categories: Conservation & Natural Resources, Food, Foods & Nutrition, General Agriculture, Insects, Lifecycles, Literacy Project Books
    Resource Type: Books
  • Sylvia's SpinachLogin to Hold

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    Sylvia’s Spinach

    Katherine Pryor

    Sylvia Spivens always says no to spinach. But one day Sylvia's teacher gives her a packet of spinach seeds to plant for the school garden. Overcoming her initial reluctance and giving the seeds a little love and patience, Sylvia discovers the joy of growing food and the pleasure of tasting something new.
    Categories: Food, Gardening, Washington County Library
    Resource Type: Books
  • Tales of the Dairy GodmotherLogin to Hold

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    Tales of the Dairy Godmother

    Viola Butler

    With the help of his Dairy Godmother, Chuck is taken—poof!—on a memorable and delicious adventure to a dairy farm. He finds out exactly where ice cream comes from and gains an even deeper love and appreciation for his favorite food. This book needs to be returned. 
    Categories: Animals, Food, Foods & Nutrition
    Resource Type: Books