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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.
    Categories: Animals, Food, General Agriculture
    Resource Type: Kits
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    Living Necklace Kit

    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. This kit does not need to be returned.  This Kit Includes: Yarn, beans, jewel bags, cotton balls, 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.
    Categories: Gardening, General Agriculture, Literacy Project Books
    Resource Type: Kits
  • The Art of Food: Plant Pigments and TanninsLogin to Hold

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    The Art of Food: Plant Pigments and Tannins

    When we think of farmers in Oregon producing popular crops such as beets, blueberries, hazelnuts, onions, and grapes, we might not first think of art supplies. However, these food crops, along with many other plant materials, often find their way into the art studio! Many paints, drawing tools, and fabric dyes contain pigments and tannins, which come from agricultural commodities, even rock and soil! This lesson allows students to utilize foods and other plant materials to discover exciting, naturally occurring colors growing in their gardens or school yards.

    Download Lesson Plan here: The Art of Food Plant Pigments and Tannins
    Categories: Farming, Food, Foods & Nutrition, Science
    Resource Type: Kits
  • Monocots and DicotsLogin to Hold

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    Monocots and Dicots

    Oregon Agriculture in the Classroom

    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. This kit does not need to be returned. This Kit Includes: Grass seed, wheat seeds, bean seeds, zip lock bags, cotton balls, 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.
    Categories: Plants, Science
    Resource Type: Kits
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    Total Available: 25 (of 1000)

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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.
    Categories: Curriculum, Farming, Gardening, Plants, Seeds
    Resource Type: Kits
  • Poetry of Agriculture KitLogin to Hold

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    Poetry of Agriculture Kit

    Students will sharpen their observation, listening and vocabulary skills with this poetry writing exercise that features items with an agriculture connection. The Poetry of Agriculture lesson is included with the kit and can also be viewed here. Take a look at Fresh-Picked Poetry - A Day at the Farmer's Market, an excellent companion book for this activity. This kit does not need to be returned.  This Kit Includes: Agriculture related products, paper bags, 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.
    Categories: Farming, Foods & Nutrition, General Agriculture, Oregon, Plants
    Resource Type: Kits
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    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
    Categories: Animals, General Agriculture
    Resource Type: Kits
  • The Buzz about BeeswaxLogin to Hold

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    The Buzz about Beeswax

    HOMESCHOOL ONLY: Students explore the use of beeswax, a by-product in honey production, by developing a useful beeswax product. Kit materials include beeswax pellets, shea butter, coconut oil and lip balm tubes, lip balm tray and a pipette.  This kit does not need to be returned.
    Categories: Science
    Resource Type: Kits
  • Busy Bees KitLogin to Hold

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    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.    
    Categories: Animals, Careers, Farming, Literacy Project Books
    Resource Type: Kits
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    Columbian Exchange Kit

    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.
    Categories: Food, Science
    Resource Type: Kits
  • Desktop Greenhouse KitLogin to Hold

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    Desktop Greenhouse Kit

    Students investigate the importance of light to plants by creating a desktop greenhouse investigation and exploring the process of photosynthesis. This kit includes: clear cups, black cups, batteries, LED lights, peat pellets, seeds, black construction paper and electrical tape. This kit includes materials for a class of 30 students. This kit does not need to be returned. DUE TO LIMITED STOCK, LIMIT ONE KIT PER ORDER. View complete lesson here.    
    Categories: Farming, Gardening, General Agriculture, Plants, Science
    Resource Type: Kits
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    Total Available: 20 (of 1000)

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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.
    Categories: Gardening, General Agriculture, Seeds
    Resource Type: Kits
  • Agricultural Networking KitLogin to Hold

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    Agricultural Networking Kit

    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 does not need to be returned.  This Kit Includes: 6 F's of agriculture bags, 44 career cards, 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.
    Categories: Conservation & Natural Resources, Literacy Project Books
    Resource Type: Kits
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    Give Me 5 Kit

    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 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.
    Categories: Foods & Nutrition, Literacy Project Books
    Resource Type: Kits
  • Source Relay KitLogin to Hold

    Total Available: 9 (of 1000)

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    Source Relay Kit

    This fast-moving relay race teaches students that before any product leaves a factory, or enters a store, it began as a resource or product of the natural world – most likely agriculture. Students will work in teams and run a relay race where they have to quickly decide the source of a product and then race to place it into one of the buckets marked Factory, Store, Farm or Earth. Source Relay is a great interest approach activity for older students! Click here for the lesson plan.  This kit does not need to be returned.   
    Categories: Food, Foods & Nutrition, General Agriculture
    Resource Type: Kits
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    Turf Buddies AKA Dirt Babies Kit

    This fun hands-on activity is a great way for students to learn about germination and watch grass grow. Students fill a nylon full of soil, a sprinkle of grass seed, and watch as their buddy grows "hair".  Click here for the lesson. Soil is not provided with this kit. Turf Buddy Birth Certificate  This kit does not need to be returned.  This Kit Includes: Nylons, grass seed, 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.
    Categories: General Agriculture, Plants, Seeds
    Resource Type: Kits