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  • Tomatoes Grow on a VineLogin to Hold

    Total Available: 7 (of 7)

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    Tomatoes Grow on a Vine

    Mari Schuh

    On the ground or up a fence, vines grow longer each day. Many fruits and vegetables grow on garden vines. Tomatoes are one of those! Readers learn about how tomatoes grow. Paired with beautiful images readers will feel like they are in the garden! Vocabulary words in this book include: fertilize, nutrient, pollen, soil, and many more. This book will need to be returned.
    Categories: Foods & Nutrition, Gardening
    Resource Type: Books
  • TomatoesLogin to Hold

    Total Available: 8 (of 8)

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    Tomatoes, Potatoes, Corn, and Beans

    Sylvia A. Johnson

    Native American farmers were well acquainted with the plants that grew in their world. In ancient times, they had domesticated wild plants to produce many varieties of maize, potatoes, beans, and squash. These basic foods became staples in large parts of the Americas. The fat red tomatoes and glossy peppers that seemed so exotic to early European explorers were familiar crops to many native farmers. And Native American cooks knew hundreds of ways to prepare and serve their grains, fruits, and vegetables. This book will need to be returned.
    Categories: Farming, Foods & Nutrition
    Resource Type: Books
  • Water: Sources · Use · ConservationLogin to Hold

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    Water: Sources · Use · Conservation

    Nancy Carlson

    This book introduces students to the one resource we cannot live without, but take for granted. Water explains, in an engaging student-friendly manner, the Hydrologic Cycle or Water Cycle. It explains the different states of water and how these states affects the world we live in. This book also discusses watersheds, river basins, and wetlands; and explains why irrigation is an important component of good water stewardship. This book will need to be returned.
    Categories: Conservation & Natural Resources, Oregon
    Resource Type: Books
  • Weaving The RainbowLogin to Hold

    Total Available: 10 (of 10)

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    Weaving The Rainbow

    George Ella Lyon

    Lyon  follows wool from sheep to loom, tracing the birth of a tapestry. In her first picture book, Anderson's sharp-edged yet airy illustrations show a weaver and her flock of white sheep, whom Lyon calls, mysteriously, "rainbow sheep." For their first year, Lyon concedes in graceful free verse, they were white. "But," she says, against a spread of sheep gazing toward the setting sun, "they were getting closer to the rainbow." This portentous phrase is left to resonate while Lyon describes the shearing, then the fleece itself: "White and springy this fleece, but carrying it from the pasture the weaver sees rainbows." As the weaver gathers plants and as the artwork depicts her hands preparing to drop the plants into steaming vats, readers realize the rainbow will appear when the wool is dyed; a magnificent spread shows the drying skeins hanging among blossoming apples trees. The weaver warps her loom and begins to weave—and the subject of the tapestry turns out to be ewes and lambs in a colorful pasture. This book will need to be returned.
    Categories: Animals
    Resource Type: Books
  • Tops and BottomsLogin to Hold

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    Tops and Bottoms

    Janet Stevens

    Once a upon a time, there was a lazy Bear and a clever Hare. Bear had lots of money and lots of land but all he wanted to do was sleep. Hare had nothing but hungry children, so he came up with a plan to convince Bear to split his land down the middle—tops and bottoms. Hare can work all day and Bear can sleep. It’s the perfect solution! Or is it? Tops & Bottoms celebrates the trickster tradition of using one’s wits to overcome hardship. “As usual, Stevens’ animal characters, bold and colorful, are delightful. . . . It’s all wonderful fun, and the book opens, fittingly, from top to bottom instead of from side to side, making it perfect for story-time sharing." IsabellaD

    A student's depiction of Tops and Bottoms!

    This book needs to be returned. 
    Categories: Animals, Farming, Foods & Nutrition, Gardening, General Agriculture
    Resource Type: Books
  • Trees are Terrific!Login to Hold

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    Trees are Terrific!

    NatureScope

    Ranger Rick's Trees are Terrific! is a creative, activities-centered educational book dedicated to inspiring in children an understanding and appreciation of the natural world, while developing the skills they will need to make responsible decisions about the environment. This book needs to be returned. 
    Categories: Conservation & Natural Resources, Forestry
    Resource Type: Books
  • Trees to KnowLogin to Hold

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    Trees to Know

    Oregon State University Extension Services

    Get to know the trees of Oregon and learn how to identify them. This book needs to be returned. 
    Categories: Farming, Forestry, Plants
    Resource Type: Books
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    Growing Bracelets Kit

    In this kit, students learn what a plant need to grow and thrive, represented by a growing bracelet; each different colored bead is what a plant needs to live, and pipe-cleaner is the plant. Click here for the downloadable lesson plan.  This kit includes one pipe-cleaner and six different colored beads per student. This kit does not need to be returned.  This Kit Includes: Pipe cleaners, beads, 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, Literacy Project Books, Plants
    Resource Type: Kits
  • The Gift of Trees KitLogin to Hold

    Total Available: 26 (of 1000)

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    The Gift of Trees Kit



    This kit introduces students to trees as the source of many things they commonly use. Students will discover how trees provide three important materials (Cellulose, Wood, and Food) and play a product matching game to learn about the great diversity of items that come from each materials category. Click here for the lesson plan. Please check the book out separately.

    This kit does not need to be returned. 

    This Kit Includes: Labeled paper bags, tree product 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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    Desktop Greenhouses

    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
    Categories: Gardening, Plants
    Resource Type: Kits
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    Plant Life

    Peter Riley

    This series is an introduction to the key science subjects, explaining the main scientific principles and showing how they work. Plant Life details the variety of plants in the world and how they grow and fertilize.' This book must be returned
    Categories: Lifecycles, Plants, Science
    Resource Type: Books
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    1,001 things to Spot on the Farm

    Gillian Doherty

    Invites young readers to find various quantities of such things as farm animals and tools which are labeled in the illustrations of rural scenes, including a sheep farm, an orchard, a rice paddy, and bee hives. This book needs to be returned. 
    Categories: Animals, Farming, General Agriculture
    Resource Type: Books
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    Honeybee The Busy Life of Apis Mellifera

    Candace Fleming,Eric Rohmann

    A tiny honeybee emerges through the wax cap of her cell. Driven to protect and take care of her hive, she cleans the nursery and feeds the larvae and the queen. But is she strong enough to fly? Not yet! Apis builds wax comb to store honey, and transfers pollen from other bees into the storage. She defends the hive from invaders. And finally, she begins her new life as an adventurer. The confining walls of the hive fall away as Apis takes to the air, finally free, in a brilliant double-gatefold illustration where the clear blue sky is full of promise-- and the wings of dozens of honeybees, heading out in search of nectar to bring back to the hive. Eric Rohmann's exquisitely detailed illustrations bring the great outdoors into your hands in this poetically written tribute to the hardworking honeybee. Award-winning author Candace Fleming describes the life cycle of the honeybee in accessible, beautiful language. Similar in form and concept to the Sibert and Orbis Pictus award book Giant Squid, Honeybee also features a stunning gatefold and an essay on the plight of honeybees. This book needs to be returned.
    Categories: Insects
    Resource Type: Books
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    My Farm Web Kit – Homeschool

    HOMESCHOOL ONLY: 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
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    Trillions of Trees

    Kurt Cyrus

    Kurt Cyrus's Trillions of Trees is an ecological picture book companion to the popular Billions of Bricks, about counting and planting trees. Grab a shovel and get ready to plant some trees! From poplars to pines, alder, apple, peach, and plum, this rhyming story introduces the concept of orders of magnitude and celebrates the importance of planting different trees and preserving diverse ecosystems. Nurturing a new sapling is one of the first steps in growing hundreds, millions, even trillions of trees. This book needs to be returned.
    Categories: Forestry
    Resource Type: Books
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    The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind

    William Kamkwamba, Bryan Mealer

    When fourteen-year-old William Kamkwamba's Malawi village was hit by a drought, everyone's crops began to fail. Without enough money for food, let alone school, William spent his days in the library . . . and figured out how to bring electricity to his village. Persevering against the odds, William built a functioning windmill out of junkyard scraps, and thus became the local hero who harnessed the wind. Lyrically told and gloriously illustrated, this story will inspire many as it shows how - even in the worst of times - a great idea and a lot of hard work can still rock the world. This book needs to be returned.
    Resource Type: Books