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  • Outdoor Farm, Indoor Farm KitLogin to Hold

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    Outdoor Farm, Indoor Farm Kit

    With the 2025 Literacy Project, explore how food grows both outdoors and indoors with best friends Emma and Efram in this lively, rhyming picture book. With vibrant illustrations and catchy verse, learn how farms thrive—no matter the season or settings! g! Follow the reading with an engaging activity that tests students’ knowledge on indoor and outdoor farms. Please check out the book separately. Click here for the lesson plan! This item does not need to be returned.  
  • Beef By-Products Source RelayLogin to Hold

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    Beef By-Products Source Relay

    Many students think products simply come from factories or stores. This hands-on activity helps students understand that before an item ever leaves a factory or enters a store, it begins as a resource or product in the natural world. More specifically, these products can all be traced back to one unassuming animal, the cow! In the Beef By-Product Source Relay, students will work in teams and run a relay race where they will quickly decide the source of a product and then race to place it into one of the buckets marked Factory, Farm, Store, Earth, or Cow.
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    Outdoor Farm, Indoor Farm

    Lindsay H. Metcalf

    Discover how both outdoor and indoor farms sustainably grow the food we eat throughout the year in this vibrant, rhyming picture book.Outdoor farm, tractors toil.Indoor farm, zero soil.With energetic, enchanting verse and sunshiny, colorful illustrations, discover how the food you eat is grown both outside—and inside! Join two children as they explore the inner workings of an outdoor farm and an indoor farm. You’ll see how a variety of amazing machinery like tractors and drones along with innovative farming techniques yield the wonderful food we all love to enjoy.This book must be returned.
  • The HikeLogin to Hold

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    The Hike

    Alison Farrell

    The Hike is a plucky and sweet adventure story about three intrepid young female explorers who set out to conquer the outdoors in their local forest.• Features a glossary and scientific backmatter • Includes a sketchbook by one of the characters that highlights discoveries the girls make along the trail • Abundant labels throughout for learning about various PNW plants and animalsThis book must be returned. 
  • Fry Bread: A Native American Family StoryLogin to Hold

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    Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story

    Kevin Noble Maillard

    Told in lively and powerful verse by debut author Kevin Noble Maillard, Fry Bread is an evocative depiction of a modern Native American family, vibrantly illustrated by Pura Belpre Award winner and Caldecott Honoree Juana Martinez-Neal.Fry bread is food. It is warm and delicious, piled high on a plate.Fry bread is time. It brings families together for meals and new memories.Fry bread is nation. It is shared by many, from coast to coast and beyond.Fry bread is us. It is a celebration of old and new, traditional and modern, similarity and difference. This book must be returned.
  • Together, a Forest: Drawing Connections Between Nature's Diversity and Our OwnLogin to Hold

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    Together, a Forest: Drawing Connections Between Nature’s Diversity and Our Own

    Roz MacLean

    Joy and her peers are eager to visit a nearby forest for a class trip. But Joy's excitement quickly turns into anxiety when she is asked to choose one thing in the area for a school assignment. Seeing her classmates connecting with the natural environment, Joy discovers how each of their choices reflect the ways they relate to and interact with the world.Together, a Forest begins as an exciting journey into nature and blossoms into a meditation on how our unique personalities and ways of being help create a more vibrant and beautiful world. The forest reveals that everyone—including those of us with disabilities and neurodivergence—belong to nature. There is no one right way for a mind, body, or person to be.With accessible social-emotional and STEM themes, this picture book highlights the importance of interdependence, inclusion and celebrating diversity in our communities.This book must be returned.
  • The WildLogin to Hold

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    The Wild

    Yuval Zommer

    Once upon a time, somewhere not far away, was the Wild. The Wild was huge and giving, and everything from insects to birds to humans made their home in it. At first, people lived lightly and took only what they needed, but when they started to take more, the Wild suffered. But one day, a young child is brave enough to raise their voice . . .In this environmental story told as a fairy tale, author-illustrator Yuval Zommer shares a hopeful and powerful message of healing, well-being, and humanity's precious and precarious relationship with nature.The magical artwork and sensitively told story will help families have meaningful conversations with young children about the urgency to protect Earth. This book must be returned.
  • Worm Makes a SandwichLogin to Hold

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    Worm Makes a Sandwich

    Brianne Farley

    Meet Worm. He might be little. He might have no hands. But Worm would love to make a sandwich, just for you! To get started he’ll need just one thing: garbage! Delicious, delectable garbage like apple cores and mushy grapes, broccoli bottoms and carrot tops, sad celery, and drippy cucumbers. Worm and his friends eat the garbage. And then they do what everyone does after they eat garbage. They poop! The poop goes in the compost and the compost goes in your garden, which is where the vegetables for your sandwich come from!
  • Incubator [Washington County]Login to Hold

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    Incubator

    Brinsea

    There's limited availability for May! Please order on the website and email us to check availability!! Easy to use, high quality, egg incubators.  All your students can watch eggs hatch...every time. Before you undertake hatching eggs in your classroom, Oregon Agriculture in the Classroom Foundation strongly recommends you educate yourself on the requirements for successfully hatching eggs and caring for chicks. PLEASE READ "Checking Out Incubators" through to the agreement below, before reserving your incubator.Resources: Shipping to you is free but you are responsible for return shipping.  Shipping costs can range from $13-$22.Checking Out Incubators
    • Incubators are checked out on a first come, first serve basis.  It is highly recommended you reserve your incubators well in advance.
    • We highly encourage at least 12 students will be involved in the incubation process. If you have questions on whether or not you qualify, please call the office at 541-737-1318.
    • Incubators can be checked out for five weeks.  This check out time frame is intended for chicken eggs; if you plan on hatching a different species, please let us know so we can adjust the time accordingly. Be sure to have ordered eggs ahead of time.  Also the incubators need 24 hours of lead running time, before the eggs can be placed in them.
    • AITC does not supply eggs for incubation.  Fertile eggs may be purchased from farm supply stores or online.
    • Cleaning Cost: A fee of $25 will be charged if the unit is returned dirty.  AITC expects the unit to be returned as clean as it was shipped to you.
    • Late Fee: A fee of $25 will be charged if the unit is not returned on time.  These units are in high demand and AITC has limited resources to meet requests.  Therefore, cooperation in returning materials in a timely manner is extremely important.
    • In the comment section at checkout, please indicate 2-3 dates that you would like to receive the incubator.  A staff member will check your requested dates with incubator availability and email you to you confirming your order.
    Please be sure the following items are in the box upon return.  If something is damaged or missing you will be charged for the item or part as indicated. • Incubator: $199.99 • Egg Insert: $19.99 • Plug Top and Transformer: $19.99 • Water Pot Guard: $4.99 • Instruction Manual: $1.50 • If the incubator is not returned thoroughly clean, a $25 fee will be chargedBy checking out this item, I agree that I understand all outlined procedures, as well as terms and conditions, for checking out, using, and returning incubators.  I accept full responsibility for conditions under which chickens are kept, and promise to treat them humanely, give them adequate food, water, heating, and space, and find appropriate care for the chickens after they have been hatched and the classroom lesson is over.
  • Grown in Washington County Map

    This beautiful 8.5 x 11 inch full color map of Washington County features unique commodities grown in the county. It is an excellent tool to bring a piece of the story one County plays in Oregon’s agricultural diversity to the classroom.The Grown in Washington County Map helps students visualize where things are grown right in their backyard. On the back of the map student's can learn some more information about the unique commodities grown in the County and how they support the diversity of Oregon agriculture.Maps are free to Oregon teachers. If you would like a classroom set please let us know how many to send!
  • Holiday Foods & Oregon Christmas Trees PosterLogin to Hold

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    Holiday Foods & Oregon Christmas Trees Poster

    This 2-sided 18x24" poster features holidays around the world with important food dishes to the culture. The backside features information on Oregon Christmas trees highlighting top varieties and the life cycle.
  • 'Til The Cows Come HomeLogin to Hold

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    ‘Til The Cows Come Home

    Jodi Icenoggle

    The author lassos a traditional Jewish folktale, "The Button Story", sets it in the American West, and rigs it up with tongue-tingling cowboy language to create an engaging story. A young cowboy, gifted in making saddles and bridles, receives a sturdy, soft-as-silk piece of leather from a grateful cowpuncher and stitches it into a pair of "whoopi-ti-yi-yo chaps." Follow the leather through the young cowboy’s life. The companion book to the Ag Tag Matching Game lesson plan and the Ag Tag Matching Game Kit. Please check the kit out separately. This book needs to be returned. 
  • Living Necklace Kit

    Grow your own necklace! This kit contains materials for your students to plant a seed in a jewel bag attached to yarn, thus creating a "living necklace." Given time and water, the necklace will be alive with a growing sprout in a few days. An excellent activity for teaching plant growth requirements. Kit includes: yarn, cotton ball, bean seed and plastic bag. Click here for lesson plan.This kit does not need to be returned. This Kit Includes:Yarn, beans, jewel bags, cotton balls, 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.
  • A Pill Bug's LifeLogin to Hold

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    A Pill Bug’s Life

    John Himmelman

    Have you ever wondered how some of nature's smallest creatures spend their days? Here's your chance to take a scientifically accurate peek at the world from their point of view. The striking illustrations and lively story-line in this book follow a pill bug as it hunts for food, faces its enemies, and interacts with humans. This book pairs well with lessons on forest ecology, compost, and soil health.
  • A Year on the FarmLogin to Hold

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    A Year on the Farm

    Sue Unstead

    Follow the busy lives of Mr. and Mrs. Farmer through A Year on the Farm, looking after the animals and growing crops. Look out for the busy Red Tractor who's helping out!
  • Achoo! Why Pollen CountsLogin to Hold

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    Achoo! Why Pollen Counts

    Shennen Bersani

    Spring has arrived and pollen is in the air. Baby Bear does not like the pollen-it sticks to his fur and makes him itchy and sneezy. He’s allergic! Achoo! He just wishes the pollen were gone. When his friends gather to tell him why they need pollen, Baby Bear learns that pollen is good for the forest and provides food for many animals, including him! Pollen might be something we all love to hate, but can we really live without it? This story explains why we need it. This title is also available in Spanish.