This kit accompanies the ‘Til the Cows Come Home Literacy Project. The Ag Tag Matching Game links commodities to their many by-products and shows how even “waste” materials can be made into something useful. Click here for the lesson plan. If you would like the book, please check it out separately. This whole kit needs to be returned. 

Help students learn about agricultural careers through this fun, hands-on lesson.  Students will learn that agriculture is much more than farming, and they will also learn all the steps their food takes to get from farm to table!  This kit goes perfectly with the book Before We Eat: From Farm to Table and was featured in the 2016 Literacy Project. Please check the book out separately. This kit needs to be returned.

Includes:

• 6 F’s of Agriculture Bags
• 44 Career Cards
• Lesson Plan

This kit contains everything you need to facilitate the Apple Farming Game activity. This kit contains  the lesson, 30 apple cards, 25 playing cards and 13 scenario cards. Don’t want to wait for the kit? Download the cards and scenarios and play today!  This kit needs to be returned. 

This hands-on activity helps students understand that before an item ever leaves a factory, or enters a store, it began as a resource or product in the natural world – most likely agriculture. Kit includes lesson, brown paper bags, and cards for matching with the bags. Click here for the lesson. For grades K-3, pair this activity with the Eric Carle book Pancakes, Pancakes! This kit needs to be returned. 

The Beeman is a sweet story of a boy and his grandfather who is a beekeeper. The story teaches students about the amazing  and complex life of bees, how they help pollinate plants, and how honey is collected by beekeepers for us to eat. This kit allows students to “become” bees and pollinate different Oregon crops. Click here for the lesson plan. Please check out the book separately.

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.

Milk is a nutritional powerhouse packed with calcium and other essential nutrient’s that fuel your body and strengthen your bones. Order from our website and we will send you a class set to keep!

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.

Help students learn about the stages of wheat harvest through this fun picture scramble game. This kit includes two sets of pictures that highlight the twelves stages of wheat farming that growers endure to achieve a crop to harvest each year. This kit goes great with the book Wheat- A True Book, along with a set of wheat heads. Please  check out the book and wheat heads separately. This kit needs to be returned. 

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.

Kit includes wool and spinning hooks for 25 students. 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.

Oregon Forest Resources Institute created this 24-page, full-color publication especially for 3rd and 4th grade students. It provides a grade-appropriate overview of Oregon forests, including forest ecology, tree biology, forest management and forest careers. It explores how we as a society need to balance economic, ecological and social values. Illustrations, puzzles and activities engage student interest.

Help students learn the importance of a well-balanced diet and introduce or reinforce the five food groups with this kit. The kit includes the lesson, 46 full-color food cards and five bags each labeled with one food group. You can also download the cards here. This kit needs to be returned.