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  • 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. 
  • SeedLogin to Hold

    Total Available: 10 (of 12)

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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.
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    Grow a Bean in a Bag Kit

    Grow a bean in a bag using water beads! Each water bead is colored and represents the needs of plant for growth and development. This kit does not need to be returned.  This Kit Includes: Water beads, jewelry bags, beans, 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.
  • Up in the Garden Down in the DirtLogin to Hold

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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. 
  • First Peas to the TableLogin to Hold

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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. 
  • From Seed to PlantLogin to Hold

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    From Seed to Plant

    Gal Gibbons

    Do you know how a seed begins? What pollination is? How flowers, fruits, and vegetables get to be the way they are? The mystery of how seeds are formed and grow into plants is revealed for young readers in this informative book. This book needs to be returned. 
  • From Seed to Pumpkin- Welcome BookLogin to Hold

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    From Seed to Pumpkin- Welcome Book

    Allan Fowler

    Emerging readers will enjoy the simple text that describes how a seed grows into a pumpkin. Large print, colorful pictures and bolded vocabulary words make this book easy for students to read and understand. This book will need to be returned.
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    Garden in a Glove Kit

    Students will get to watch 5 different types of seeds germinate and sprout in their very own Garden in a Glove! This kit contains gloves, 5 different seeds and cotton balls required for the Garden in a Glove lesson plan. This kit does not need to be returned.  This Kit Includes: Gloves, Cotton Balls, Seeds, 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.
  • Wheat HeadsLogin to Hold

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    Wheat Heads

    Set of ten soft white wheat heads showcasing Oregon grown wheat. This item does not need to be returned, so feel free to dig in and really discover it. Pairs well with wheat grinders and other grain resources.
  • Green Bean! Green Bean!Login to Hold

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    Green Bean! Green Bean!

    Patricia Thomas

    Plant it water it weed it protect it and under the blossoms is the perfect shady nook to read a book! Pretty soon its time to pick all those long, lean beans, and to harvest a full season of garden knowledge and experience. This book needs to be returned. 
  • Growing Vegetable soupLogin to Hold

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    Growing Vegetable soup

    Lois Ehlert

    "Dad says we are going to grow vegetable soup." So begins Lois Ehlert's bright, bold picture book about vegetable gardening for the very young. The necessary tolls are pictured and labeled, as are the seeds (green bean, pea, corn, zucchini squash, and carrot). Then the real gardening happens...planting, weeding, harvesting, washing, shopping and cooking! In the end? "It was the best soup ever." Ehlert's simple, colorful cut-paper style illustrations are child-friendly, as is the big black type. A recipe for vegetable soup tops it all off! This book needs to be returned. 
  • How Many Seeds in a Pumpkin?Login to Hold

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    How Many Seeds in a Pumpkin?

    Margaret NeNara

    Here is an adorable picture book for curious kids, which explores skip counting and estimation in a fun pumpkin-themed classroom experiment. "How many seeds are in a pumpkin?" Mr. Tiffin asks his class as they gather around the big, medium, and small pumpkins on his desk. Robert, the biggest kid, guesses that the largest one has a million seeds; Elinor, sounding like she knows what she's talking about, guesses the medium one has 500 seeds; and Anna, who likes even numbers better than odd ones, guesses that the…This is a great read which pairs with our Pumpkin Math Lessons. This book will need to be returned.
  • How a Plant GrowsLogin to Hold

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    How a Plant Grows

    Bobbie Kalman

    How A Plant Grows introduces children to the amazing lives of plants-- from their beginnings, through their growth, to reproduction and death. This book needs to be returned. 
  • Investigating Plants: Hands-OnLogin to Hold

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    Investigating Plants: Hands-On, Low-Cost Laboratory

    Thomas Sinclair, Marty Jones

    The exercises in this manual were developed and tested by seventh graders. These young students were quick to demonstrate a hands-on approach to testing which of the experiments in this book were successful and which were not. Their excitement in doing these activities were important and proved that "Science is Fun." A great resource for year-around use in the classroom. This book needs to be returned. 
  • Junior Master Gardener HandbookLogin to Hold

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    Junior Master Gardener Handbook

    Texas Agriculture Extension Service

    Make plantable greeting cards... use peanut butter, chocolate chips, and cereal to learn about soil aggregates... find out how plants clean water... create your own ethnic vegetable garden.... and more. Students can become a certified Junior Master Gardener by completing all eight subject units in Level 1. A teacher's guide is also available. This book needs to be returned. 
  • Johnny AppleseedLogin to Hold

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    Johnny Appleseed

    Jodie Shepherd

    This beautifully illustrated retelling shows how Johnny Appleseed bloomed from a young boy who loved the outdoors into the legendary man who spread apple trees all across the United States. Showing small acts of generosity and the love of nature can make a big difference, this book is sure to inspire the budding little Johnny Appleseed in every reader. This book will need to be returned.