With the 2025 Literacy Project, explore how food grows both outdoors and indoors with best friends Emma and Efram in this lively, rhyming picture book. With vibrant illustrations and catchy verse, learn how farms thrive—no matter the season or settings! g! Follow the reading with an engaging activity that tests students’ knowledge on indoor and outdoor farms. Please check out the book separately. Click here for the lesson plan! This item does not need to be returned.
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.
In this lesson, students are introduced to the concepts of supply and demand as it pertains to the school kitchen. Students will explore factors affecting egg production and how supply and demand influence the price and availability of eggs. Students will role-play as poultry farmers and egg consumers to analyze real-world scenarios, observe the impact on egg supply, and make suggestions to their school’s kitchen staff.
Lesson Plan & Activity Sheet
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
Students explore different cultures around the world, compare worldwide communities with local communities, and explain the interrelationship between the environment and community development. This kit includes a class set of: 37 Lunch cards and a world map. This kit does not need to be returned.
Grow your own necklace! This kit contains materials for your students to plant a seed in a jewel bag attached to yarn, thus creating a "living necklace." Given time and water, the necklace will be alive with a growing sprout in a few days. An excellent activity for teaching plant growth requirements. Kit includes: yarn, cotton ball, bean seed and plastic bag. Click here for lesson plan.
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This Kit Includes:
Yarn, beans, jewel bags, cotton balls, and a paper lesson plan
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GRADES 3-5: Students will investigate the “three sisters” crops (corn, beans, and squash) and explore the benefit to planting these crops together through a germination activity and legend reading exploration. This kit includes a grade appropriate reading activity for students in grades 3-5. This kit does not need to be returned.
In this lesson students set up a side-by-side germination experiment of monocot and dicot seeds. They will observe differences and similarities of these two types of flowering plants at the germination level, specifically the number of cotyledons. Students can record their findings daily. This is a great way to begin a flowering plant unit.
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This Kit Includes:
Grass seed, wheat seeds, bean seeds, zip lock bags, cotton balls, and a paper lesson plan
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Grow a bean in a bag using water beads! Each water bead is colored and represents the needs of plant for growth and development.
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This Kit Includes:
Water beads, jewelry bags, beans, and a paper lesson plan
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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.
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This Kit Includes:
Hooks, wool, and a paper lesson plan
Grades 3-5: Students will explore the life cycle of a Douglas-fir Christmas tree through this fun craft learning the various stages of growth. Students will engage in a grade-appropriate reading activity about Christmas tree varieties and sketch a tree's life cycle. This kit includes the following materials: wood tree cutout, jewelry sized box, life cycle card, Christmas Tree Booklet, paint and glue. This kit does not need to be returned.
This kit allows students to "become" bees and pollinate different Oregon crops. Click here for the lesson plan. Please check out the book separately.
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Kit Includes: Images of beehive, blueberry bush, apple tree, and flowers; chalk; cotton swab "bees"; and a paper lesson plan.
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Students explore New World and Old World food origins to discover how the Columbian Exchange altered people’s lives worldwide. This kit includes materials for six groups of students.
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.
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This Kit Includes:
Gloves, Cotton Balls, Seeds, and a Paper Lesson Plan
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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.
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This Kit Includes:
6 F's of agriculture bags, 44 career cards, and a paper lesson plan
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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 plan
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Does not need to be returned
