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  • One Hen: How One Small Loan Made a Big DifferenceLogin to Hold

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    One Hen: How One Small Loan Made a Big Difference

    Katie Smith Milway

    Inspired by true events, One Hen tells the story of Kojo, a boy from Ghana who turns a small loan into a thriving farm and a livelihood for many. One Hen shows what happens when a little help makes a big difference. The final pages of One Hen explain the microloan system and include a list of relevant organizations for children to explore.
  • Oregon's Seasonal HarvestLogin to Hold

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    Oregon’s Seasonal Harvest

    Oregon Department of Agriculture

    This Oregon's Seasonal Harvest poster with original illustrations celebrates 63 of Oregon's diverse specialty crops!This item does not need to be returned.
  • Our School GardenLogin to Hold

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    Our School Garden

    Rick Swann

    New city. New school. Michael is feeling all alone—until he discovers the school garden! There’s so many ways to learn, and so much work to do. Each season creates a new way to learn, explore and make friends.
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    Our School Garden

    Rick Swann

    New city. New school. Michael is feeling all alone—until he discovers the school garden! There’s so many ways to learn, and so much work to do. Taste a leaf? Mmm, nice and tangy hot. Dig for bugs? “Roly-poly!” he yells. But the garden is much more than activities outdoors: making school garden stone soup, writing Found Poems and solving garden riddles, getting involved in community projects such as Harvest Day, food bank donations, and spring plant sales. Each season creates a new way to learn, explore and make friends. This book needs to be returned. 
  • Peppermint Oil

    Peppermint oil is provided for making peppermints from the No Cook Peppermints lesson.1-2 drops of oil will make approximately 75 candies.**No need to return the vial.
  • Project SeasonsLogin to Hold

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    Project Seasons

    A collection of interdisciplinary, hands-on activities and teaching ideas for elementary educators. Using the school year seasons of fall, winter, and spring, Project Seasons integrates science, agriculture and environmental themes into the curriculum and aims to show how all things are interconnected. Each seasonal section contains activities, extensions, background information and exhibit ideas.
  • Riparia's RiverLogin to Hold

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    Riparia’s River

    Michael J. Caduto

    When four friends are horrified to find their swimming hole filled with green slime, a mysterious naturalist named Riparia helps the children understand why the water became polluted―and together they figure out how they can bring clean water back to the river they all love.
  • Seeds and SeedlingsLogin to Hold

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    Seeds and Seedlings

    Elaine Pascoe

    This award-winning 12 volume science series continues. Easy-to-do projects introduce kids to the basics of scientific method (hypothesis, observation, conclusion) as they get a "hands on" understanding of the nature of living things. Stunning photos, fascinating background material, and focused experiments combine to teach biology and excite young students about scientific process. Each volume includes:
    • Materials Source List
    • Glossary
    • Further Reading
    • Index
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  • Seeds of Change: Learning from the GardenLogin to Hold

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    Seeds of Change: Learning from the Garden

    Judy Mannes

    Your class can learn about food, plant exchange, movements of plants from a place of origin to new lands. Based in your garden, this year-long activity will teach about food history, cultural exchange, nutrition--all while providing opportunities for enjoyable, balanced meals.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Soil! Get the Inside ScoopLogin to Hold

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    Soil! Get the Inside Scoop

    David L. Lindbo

    Go underground into the living world of soil. Explore how soil is part of our life--the food we eat, the air we breathe, the water we drink, the houses we live in, and how it even helps to control our climate and protect our rivers and streams. Find out how soil is formed, why some soils are good for growing things and other are not, why you can pour sand but not clay. Then, take an around-the-world trip and dig into dry soils, wet soils, deep soils, and even frozen soils. Along the way, meet the scientists who work with soil every day and find out why they think soil is so much fun.This book needs to be returned. 
  • Source Relay KitLogin to Hold

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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.  
  • The Book of Gardening Projects for KidsLogin to Hold

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    The Book of Gardening Projects for Kids

    Whitney Cohen, John Fisher

    Many gardeners find that once they have children, gardening goes the way of late-night dinner parties and Sunday morning sleep-ins. Raising kids and maintaining a garden can be a juggling act, leaving the family garden forgotten and neglected. But kids can make great gardening companions, and the benefits of including them are impossible to ignore. Gardening gets kids outdoors and away from television and video games, increases their connection to plants and animals, and helps build enthusiasm for fresh fruits and vegetables. Their involvement becomes the real harvest of a family garden. This book needs to be returned. 
  • Turf Buddies AKA Dirt Babies Kit

    This fun hands-on activity is a great way for students to learn about germination and watch grass grow. Students fill a nylon full of soil, a sprinkle of grass seed, and watch as their buddy grows "hair".  Click here for the lesson. Soil is not provided with this kit.Turf Buddy Birth Certificate This kit does not need to be returned. This Kit Includes:Nylons, grass seed, and a paper lesson planPlease put the number of students in your class in the quantity section at checkout to ensure the correct number of supplies gets to you.
  • The Girl Who Drew ButterfliesLogin to Hold

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    The Girl Who Drew Butterflies

    Joyce Sidman

    One of the first naturalists to observe live insects directly, Maria Sibylla Merian was also one of the first to document the metamorphosis of the butterfly. In this visual nonfiction biography, richly illustrated throughout with full-color original paintings by Merian herself, the Newbery Honor–winning author Joyce Sidman paints her own picture of one of the first female entomologists and a woman who flouted convention in the pursuit of knowledge and her passion for insects.