What's that you say? You're hungry? Right this very minute? Then you need a farmer. You have the stories of so many right here on your table! Award winners Lisl H. Detlefsen and Renee Kurilla's delicious celebration of food and farming is sure to inspire readers of all ages to learn more about where their food comes from - right this very minute! This book needs to be returned. 

This lively book is packed with plant activities for your students. There are activities like: experimenting with growing plants in light or darkness, putting celery in a jar with blue ink to show how water travels up the stem, making a bottle garden, creating leaf prints, growing carrot tops, finding seeds and learning about how seeds travel and more. This book will need to be returned.

Have you ever come across a flock of sheep grazing on a sunny hillside? Shepherds, people who make a living looking after sheep, enjoy watching their sheep, but that's not why they raise them. This book teaches students everything they need to know about sheep. From different breeds, to their uses, and how they are cared for, this book is jam packed with lots of great information. Lots of pictures and a glossary in the back makes it perfect for young readers. This book needs to be returned. 

Explore soils and how we can take care of them within the pages of this book . Great to pair with gardening books and a soils unit, also with AITC's hands-on soils lessons. Index and glossary included in book. This book will need to be returned.

The talking tractor, Agri, takes students through the five parts of agriculture: production, processing, distribution, marketing, and consumerism. Students get an introduction to soybeans, an important agricultural product. Did you know that soybean plants appear within 2 weeks after seeds are planted? Pair this book with our Living Necklace activity and each student can have their very own soybean plant! This book will need to be returned.

Farmer Terry is a spud guy. He raises two varieties of potatoes, Russet Norkotah and Red. Farmer Terry planted his first potatoes in high school with his brother, John, and continues to grow them today. Text with photographs of Farmer Terry tells the story of how potatoes are grown. This book will need to be returned.

How do we cultivate a sustainable future for Earth’s growing population? What role does agriculture play in ensuring food security? These are questions students will answer as they study The Man Who Fed the World. The teacher’s guide to the book contains modules and instructional materials designed to help high school students examine the elements of sustainable international development efforts, specifically with respect to the role agriculture plays in spurring economic transformation and growth in developing countries. Through reading The Man Who Fed the World, a biography about Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Norman Borlaug by Leon Hesser, students gain a firsthand account of the Green Revolution. The selected readings from the book illustrate a concrete example of a past international development effort for students to analyze from multiple perspectives, including its impact on food production, economic transformation, government policies, technological research and development, and the environment. At the end of the lesson, students will articulate a position, informed by fact, regarding how modern agriculture can be applied to sustainably accommodate Earth’s growing population through future development efforts.

Many gardeners find that once they have children, gardening goes the way of late-night dinner parties and Sunday morning sleep-ins. Raising kids and maintaining a garden can be a juggling act, leaving the family garden forgotten and neglected. But kids can make great gardening companions, and the benefits of including them are impossible to ignore. Gardening gets kids outdoors and away from television and video games, increases their connection to plants and animals, and helps build enthusiasm for fresh fruits and vegetables. Their involvement becomes the real harvest of a family garden. This book needs to be returned.