Highlights stems and roots, the essential plant parts that give radishes, blackberries, peas, milkweed, corn, strawberries, and trees. This book will need to be returned.
Students learn about the five food groups and what Oregon grown foods fit into each group. This lesson makes a local connection to good nutrition and a healthy lifestyle. The lesson goes with the Literacy Project book, Who Grew My Soup? This kit comes with everything that students need. Click here for the lesson. Please check the book out separately.This kit does not need to be returned.This Kit Includes:Craft sticks, paper hands, 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.
This book explains the many different uses of potatoes. Students learn what nutrients they get from this food, and why it is important to eat a balanced diet. Part of the What's for Lunch series. This book will need to be returned.
This is a story about a field and a man who loved it enough to do something to save it from development. Based on the author's personal efforts to protect the land, this story broadcasts a deliberate and timely environmental message that, like the intentionally nameless protagonist, anyone can make a difference. This book needs to be returned.Â
Developed at Shelburne Farms, Project Seasons is a collection of hands-on education activities for discovering the wonders of the world. Classroom educators, pre-school & after-school teachers, camp instructors and parents will find it invaluable in cultivating an awareness and appreciation of agriculture and natural resources.
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.
Protein is tasty, hearty, and healthy. Learn about how MyPlate helps kids make great food choices every day, including protein! This book will need to be returned.
Come find out how a garden grows, as an amazing cycle unfolds in a backyard pumpkin patch. From seed to ripened fruit this book has stunning photos of what it's like to be in the garden as a pumpkin patch comes to life. This story is complete with a "How to Grow a Pumpkin" page on the last page of the book. Great book for the fall school year.This book is available in Spanish under El Circulo de Las Calabazas: Historia de Un Huerto / Pumpkin Circle. This book needs to be returned.Â
Myles and his family go to his grandparents' apple ranch, where they have a wonderful time picking and selling apples together. This book needs to be returned.Â
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.Â
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.
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 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.
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