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  • Outdoor Farm, Indoor Farm KitLogin to Hold

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    Outdoor Farm, Indoor Farm Kit

    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.   
    Categories: Farming, General Agriculture
    Resource Type: Kits
  • Cows, Corrals, and Innovation KitLogin to Hold

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    Cows, Corrals, and Innovation Kit

    Explore the natural behaviors of cattle and engineer a handling system with guidance from Temple Grandin, renowned animal scientist. Students will be challenged to build a corral system using simple materials to move cattle. Please check out this book separately. Playdough, marbles, toothpicks and lesson plan will be provided.  Click here for lesson plan. This lesson does not need to be returned. 
    Categories: Animals, General Agriculture, Technology
    Resource Type: Kits
  • 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
  • Eggs: Supply and DemandLogin to Hold

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    Eggs: Supply and Demand

    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
    Categories: Animals, Food
    Resource Type: Kits
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    Up in the Garden, Down in The Dirt Kit

    Students explore the different pests and friends that are found in the garden and how they affect crops. This kit includes a class set of materials. This kit does not need to be returned.
    Categories: Gardening, Insects, Plants, Seasonal, Soils
    Resource Type: Kits
  • The Big Deal About Big Ag KitLogin to Hold

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    The Big Deal About Big Ag Kit

    Discover how technological advances and economic forces influence the size of farms in the United States. Evaluate the pros and cons of large-scale agriculture for the production of our food, fuel and fiber and identify the similarities and differences in commercial vs subsistence farming. The kit will include six sets of 21 Farm Profile cards. This kit includes materials for six groups of students. This kit does not need to be returned.
    Categories: Curriculum, Farming, General Agriculture
    Resource Type: Kits
  • Living Necklace KitLogin to Hold

    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
  • My Farm Web Kit - HomeschoolLogin to Hold

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    Right this Very Minute – Farm Web Kit

    Students use the visual representation of a web to explore the role of agriculture in their daily lives and understand how most of the necessities of life can be traced back to the farm. This kit includes: six student kits with cards and string. This kit does not need to be returned. 
    Categories: Animals, Farming, Foods & Nutrition, General Agriculture, Literacy Project Books
    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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    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
  • 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