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  • 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.
  • Discover Agriculture Careers Card SetLogin to Hold

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    Discover Agriculture Careers Card Set

    Wondering what job titles are out there, what they involve, where they’re located, and how much they pay? Interested in the education and experience needed to land them? This 48-card career set is a great way to explore the possibilities, get inspired, and start planning a future in agriculture! This product must be returned.

    These career cards pair great with the Discover Agriculture Careers Lesson. Check out the lessons by clicking on the links below:

    Grades 6-8: Discover Agriculture Careers: One Problem at a Time (Grades 6-8) – Curriculum Matrix | Oregon Agriculture in the Classroom Foundation

    Grades 9-12: Discover Agriculture Careers: One Problem at a Time (Grades 9-12) – Curriculum Matrix | Oregon Agriculture in the Classroom Foundation

  • Science in Your Shopping CartLogin to Hold

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    Science in Your Shopping Cart

    Science in Your Shopping Cart shows us just how much science is behind the everyday items we use, eat, and wear. In the United States, we pay less for food than almost any other country. Every year, researchers introduce dozens of new and improved varieties of fruits, vegetables, and other products. But as we walk through the grocery store, do we ever stop to think about where this incredible abundance and variety comes from? This book helps us understand the science that makes it all possible.
  • AgBadging Field GuideLogin to Hold

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    AgBadging Field Guide

    The AgBadging Field Guide leads students through an in-depth exploration of agriculture. Students have the opportunity to obtain five badges while learning about the food, fiber and resources that support our daily lives. This resource is intended for homeschool only. 
  • '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. 
  • A Guide to Oregon's Forest WildlifeLogin to Hold

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    A Guide to Oregon’s Forest Wildlife

    Oregon Forest Resources Institute

    Why so the different animals in Oregon's forests choose to live where they do? This booklet describes some of the wildlife associated with stands of different age classes.
  • A Guide to Priority Plant and Animal Species In Oregon ForestsLogin to Hold

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    A Guide to Priority Plant and Animal Species In Oregon Forests

    Oregon Forest Resources Institute

    This revised and updated publication is designed to assist forest landowners, land managers, students, and educators in understanding how forests provide habitat for different wildlife and plant species. It describes the specific habitat requirements of selected species found in forested habitats across all ecoregions in Oregon. It provides teachers and students a way to learn more about wildlife species and the forest habitats they use and helps landowners and land managers determine what species to include in their management plans.
  • Wool Spinning Kit

    Students will get hooked on wool spinning as they learn about wool and where it comes from. Using carded wool and spinning hooks, students will create friendship bracelets to wear home! For more information on spinning and dyeing wool, please download our Wool Spinning lesson (included with kit). Also, check out Weaving the Rainbow, an excellent companion book for this activity. For further hands-on wool activities download this PDF, Hands-On With Wool. This document includes 5 different wool activities: spinning, Kool-Aid dying, natural dying, weaving the wool, and Ziploc felting. Detailed instructions and a materials list can also be located within this document. Kit generously donated by the Oregon Sheep Commission. Please 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 kit does not need to be returned. This Kit Includes: Hooks, wool, and a paper lesson plan
  • Animal FibersLogin to Hold

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    Animal Fibers

    Jo Massam-Windsor

    Students learn about where different types of animal fibers come from, how they are collected and what they are used for. This book needs to be returned. 
  • Barnyard BanterLogin to Hold

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    Barnyard Banter

    Denise Fleming

    It's another noisy morning on the farm, and all of the animals are where they should be-- except Goose. And where is Goose? Young children will enjoy clucking, mucking, mewing, and cooing while they search for Goose on every gorgeously illustrated spread. This book needs to be returned. 
  • Blackberry BanquetLogin to Hold

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    Blackberry Banquet

    Terry Pierce

    Mmm-mm! Forest animals squeak, tweet, slurp, yip and chomp over the sweet, plump fruit of a wild blackberry bush. But what happens when a bear arrives to take part in the feast? Young children will enjoy following the story by making the animal sounds, and the chaos that strikes upon the bear's arrival will surely bring on the laughter. The cumulative, rhyming text makes for a great read-aloud. The "For Creative Minds" educational section includes: Blackberry fun facts, How we eat blackberries (with smoothie recipe), Plants are the bottom of the food chain, Plants and animals, How do animals help plants?, and Are plants always good? This book needs to be returned. 
  • Busy Bees Kit

    This kit allows students to "become" bees and pollinate different Oregon crops. Click here for the lesson plan. Please check out the book separately. This kit does not need to be returned. Kit Includes: Images of beehive, blueberry bush, apple tree, and flowers; chalk; cotton swab "bees"; and a paper lesson plan. Please put the number of students in your class in the quantity section at checkout to ensure the correct number of supplies gets to you.    
  • Chickens Aren't the Only OnesLogin to Hold

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    Chickens Aren’t the Only Ones

    Ruth Heller

    Ruth Heller's prose and pictures are the perfect means for discovering the variety of oviparous animals and their unique ways of laying eggs. This book needs to be returned. 
  • PancakesLogin to Hold

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    Chicken – Life Cycle

    David M. Schwartz

    This short book shows the entire life cycle of a chicken, from being laid as an egg, to a fully mature chicken. This book needs to be returned. 
  • CowLogin to Hold

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    Cow

    It's hard work being a cow - you graze, you chew, and you rest. This book needs to be returned. 
  • Eggs! Life on the Chicken FarmLogin to Hold

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    Eggs! Life on the Chicken Farm

    Join 12 year old Lauren as she takes readers on a tour of her family’s chicken farm where they produce eggs to sell. This book needs to be returned.