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Desktop Greenhouses
Students investigate the importance of light to plants by creating a desktop greenhouse investigation and exploring the process of photosynthesis. This kit includes materials for six groups of students. For more resources and lesson plan: Desktop Greenhouses

Categories: Gardening, Plants
Resource Type: Kits
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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.

Categories: Animals, Farming, Food, Foods & Nutrition, Gardening, General Agriculture, Insects, Lifecycles, Plants, Science, Seeds
Resource Type: Booklets, Printed Materials
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Seed, Soil, Sun
Cris Peterson
Seed. Soil. Sun. With these simple ingredients, nature creates our food. This beautifully written book by Cris Peterson, brings both wonder and clarity to the subject of agriculture, celebrating the cycle of growth, harvest, and renewal. The photography that conveys this story is a perfect fit for this story. The companion book to the Seed, Soil, Sun lesson plan and the Seed, Soil, Sun Kit. Please check the kit out separately.

Categories: Gardening, Literacy Project Books, Plants, Science, Seeds, Soils, Washington County Library
Resource Type: Books
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An Earthworm’s Life
John Himmelman
Have you ever wondered how many 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. This book will need to be returned.

Categories: Conservation & Natural Resources, Gardening
Resource Type: Books
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Apples Grow on a Tree
Mari Schuh
Simple text and photographs describe how apples grow on trees. This book needs to be returned.

Categories: Foods & Nutrition, Gardening
Resource Type: Books
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Apples of Your Eye
Allan Fowler
This book gives you a taste of how farmers manage apple orchards. From soil-type to grafting new trees to harvesting the apples, you'll see apples up-close and personal. This book needs to be returned.

Categories: Farming, Food, Foods & Nutrition, Gardening
Resource Type: Books
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Berries to Jelly – Welcome Books
Inez Snyder
Watch step by step as berries are turned into jelly! With clear photos you could make your own jelly. Vocabulary words in this book include: berries, boil, jelly, lids, stirred, strained, sugar, and sweet. This book will need to be returned.

Categories: Foods & Nutrition, Gardening
Resource Type: Books
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Busy, Buzzy Bees
Allan Fowler
Learn interesting facts about bees — including the different jobs they do, how they make honey, and how they help flowers grow. This book will need to be returned.

Categories: Farming, Gardening, Lifecycles
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Carrots Grow Underground
Mari Schuh
Simple text and photographs describe how carrots grow underground. This book needs to be returned.

Categories: Foods & Nutrition, Gardening
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Up in the Garden and Down in the Dirt
Kate Messner, Christopher Silas Neal
Up in the garden, the world is full of green leaves and sprouts, growing vegetables, and ripening fruit. But down in the dirt there is a busy world of earthworms digging, snakes hunting, skunks burrowing, and all the other animals that make a garden their home. In this exuberant and lyrical book, discover the wonders that lie hidden between stalks, under the shade of leaves and down in the dirt. This book needs to be returned.

Categories: Gardening, Lifecycles, Plants, Seeds
Resource Type: Books
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Cycling Back to Nature: Soils Alive! — From Tiny Rocks to Compost
Robert Horton
This hands-on guide explores Mother Nature's development of soil and soil enhancements through composting.

Categories: Conservation & Natural Resources, Gardening, Soils
Resource Type: Instructional Units
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Down-to-Earth Enriching Learning through Gardening
Bob Williamson, Ellen Smoak
Through this hands-on, minds-on program, youth get the basics of botany, the gist of gardening, the essentials of ecology and much more. Award winning activity guide is an excellent resource.

Categories: Gardening, General Agriculture
Resource Type: Instructional Units
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Dragons, Houses, and Other Flies
Dragons, Houses and Other Flies — Grades 9-12 (Instructional Unit) This activity guide invites youth to explore the fascinating world of insects and learn valuable life skills through hands-on activities.

Categories: Gardening, General Agriculture
Resource Type: Instructional Units
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El Circulo de Las Calabazas: Historia de Un Huerto / Pumpkin Circle
George Levenson, Shmuel Thaler, Alberto Jimenez Rioja
This treat of a picture book comes cloaked in the colors of fall. Bouncy verses and glowing photographs show a backyard pumpkin patch move through its natural cycle; seeds sprouting, flowers blooming, bees buzzing, pumpkins growing . . .and then going back to earth. Also includes an author's note explaining how to grow your own pumpkin! This book is available in English under Pumpkin Circle. This book will need to be returned.

Categories: Gardening, Seasonal
Resource Type: Books, Spanish
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First Peas to the Table
Susan Grigsby
Thomas Jefferson loved to garden. In the spring, he and his neighbors competed to see whose peas would be ready to eat first. Two hundred years later, Maya's class is having its own First Peas to the Table garden contest. Will a secret tip from Thomas Jefferson help Maya win? This book needs to be returned.

Categories: Gardening, Plants, Seeds
Resource Type: Books
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Fresh-Picked Poetry – A Day at the Farmer’s Market
Michelle Schaub
This collection of poems takes young readers to a day at an urban farmers’ market. Who to see, what to eat, and how produce is grown—it’s all so exciting, fresh, and delicious. Readers are invited to peruse the stands and inspect vendors’ wares with poems like “Farmer Greg’s Free-Range Eggs,” “Summer Checklist,” and “Necessary Mess.” This book will need to be returned.

Categories: Farming, Foods & Nutrition, Gardening
Resource Type: Books

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Agriculture in the Classroom is a nationwide educational program designed to help students develop an awareness and understanding that agriculture is the source of our food, clothing, shelter and other essentials. In Oregon, the program is a non-profit, 501 (c)(3) foundation. The College of Agricultural Sciences at Oregon State University (OSU) provides office space on the OSU campus.