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  • Moving the Classroom Outdoors: Schoolyard-Enhanced Learning in ActionLogin to Hold

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    Moving the Classroom Outdoors: Schoolyard-Enhanced Learning in Action

    Herbert W. Broda

    Designed to provide teachers and administrators with a range of practical suggestions for making the schoolyard a varied and viable learning resource, Moving the Classroom Outdoors presents concrete examples of how urban, suburban, and rural schools have enhanced the school site as a teaching tool. The book focuses on the practical and the specific, including ideas for seating, signage, planting considerations, teaching/meeting areas, outdoor classroom management, pathways, equipment storage, raised gardens, and more. The book also provides an outdoor activity sampler, information on incorporating technology into the outdoor learning experience, and a chapter on the unique concerns of urban schools. This book needs to be returned. 
  • Oh Say Can You SeedLogin to Hold

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    Oh Say Can You Seed?

    Bonnie Worth

    I'm the Cat in the Hat, and I think that you need to come take a look at this thing called a seed. This non-fiction book introduces beginning readers to seeds and plant life cycles. The companion book to the Living Necklace lesson plan and the Living Necklace Kit. Please check the kit out separately. This book needs to be returned. 
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    Oregon Forests Map

    Oregon Forest Resources Institute

    Oregon's forests are among the most diverse in the world. The colorful 24-inch by 36-inch poster includes a map showing the statewide locations where the most common conifer and hardwood tree species are found, plus descriptions of ecological and climatic conditions in which they thrive.
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    Oregon Grown Fresh Produce

    Oregon Department of Agriculture

    This colorful Oregon Grown Fresh Produce poster includes the 26 specialty crops that are seasonally available within Oregon. This 18x36 inch poster was created by watercolor artist Abigail Waring for the Oregon Department of Agriculture. This item does not need to be returned.
  • Pioneer Farm CookingLogin to Hold

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    Pioneer Farm Cooking

    Mary Gunderon

    Bring interest in history to a rolling boil with this book of simple recipes and history! By making foods from various time periods in U.S. history, readers will learn what those times were like. This book will need to be returned. 
  • Rediscover Oregon's ForestsLogin to Hold

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    Rediscover Oregon’s Forests

    Oregon Forest Resource Institute

    This instructional unit has everything students need to learn about forests in Oregon. Included is a DVD, a fungi guide, sustainability and the global environment, a forest fact book, and fire in Oregon's forest. A great resource for teaching a natural resources or forestry lesson.
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    Roots, Shoots, Buckets & Boots Gardening Together with Children

    Sharon Lovejoy

    This is a wonderful collection of gardening projects for children. Twelve spirited, easy-to-implement ideas for theme gardens that teachers and students can grow together. The beautiful illustrations will motivate you to start your own garden. This book needs to be returned. 
  • Saving Strawberry FarmLogin to Hold

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    Saving Strawberry Farm

    Deborah Hopkinson

    One penny. In the hot, mean summer of 1933, a penny is enough to buy caramels or red hots or peppermint sticks or licorice strings. Is it enough to buy Miss Elsie's Strawberry Farm? There's only one way to find out. Davey takes a deep breath and shouts, "One penny for Strawberry Farm!" This book needs to be returned. 
  • Sleep Tight Farm: A Farm Prepares for WinterLogin to Hold

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    Sleep Tight Farm: A Farm Prepares for Winter

    Eugene Doyle

    A captivating exploration of how a family gets a farm ready for the snow of winter. Sleep Tight Farm lyrically connects each growing season to the preparations at the very end of the farm year. This beautiful and informative book paints a fascinating picture of what winter means to the farm year and to the family that shares its seasons, from spring's new growth, summer's heat, and fall's bounty to winter's well-earned rest. All year long the farm has worked to shelter us, feed us, keep us warm, and now it's time to sleep. This book needs to be returned. 
  • Soil! Get the Inside ScoopLogin to Hold

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    Soil! Get the Inside Scoop

    David L. Lindbo

    Go underground into the living world of soil. Explore how soil is part of our life--the food we eat, the air we breathe, the water we drink, the houses we live in, and how it even helps to control our climate and protect our rivers and streams. Find out how soil is formed, why some soils are good for growing things and other are not, why you can pour sand but not clay. Then, take an around-the-world trip and dig into dry soils, wet soils, deep soils, and even frozen soils. Along the way, meet the scientists who work with soil every day and find out why they think soil is so much fun. This book needs to be returned. 
  • Sounds of the ForestLogin to Hold

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    Sounds of the Forest

    Oregon Forest Resources Institute

    This publication, with text and color illustrations, is intended for young readers (grades K-3) and tells the story of some of the animals that live in Oregon's forests.
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    The Beeman

    Laurie Krebs, Valerie Cis

    Told from the viewpoint of a child whose Grandpa is a beekeeper, this rhyming text offers an accessible and engaging introduction to the behavior of bees, including: where they live, how honey is made, and what a beekeeper does. The companion book to the Busy Bees lesson plan and the Busy Bees Kit. Please check the kit out separately. This book needs to be returned. 
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    The Berry Book

    Gail Gibbons

    This book is a cheery, fact-filled, highly recommended picture book for young people who are just beginning to learn reading. All sorts of different edible berries are pictured with simple, cheery, full-color illustrations. From strawberries and blueberries to gooseberries and wintergreen berries, just about every berry type is presented for inquiring young minds. This book needs to be returned. 
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    The Garden Classroom

    Cathy James

    Packed with garden-based activities that promote science, math, reading, writing, imaginative play, and arts and crafts, The Garden Classroom offers a whole year of outdoor play and learning ideas—however big or small your garden. This book needs to be returned. 
  • The Life Cycle of a TreeLogin to Hold

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    The Life Cycle of a Tree

    Bobbi Kalman

    This book follows the growth of a tree from the time it sprouts to the time it is mature and capable of producing new seeds. A tree is a living thing. It is a large green plant. Like all plants, trees make their own food from light, air, and water. Trees come in many shapes, colors, and sizes, but they have the same basic parts. A tree begins its life as a seed and over many years becomes tall and mature tree. This book will need to be returned.
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    The Incredible Egg – 4-H Classroom Curriculum Guide

    Oregon State University Extension

    This unique educational unit integrates the concept of chick embryology into easy-to-use math, science, and language arts lesson plans. One of the unique features of this educational unit is that you do not have to incubate eggs to achieve the learning objectives (although hatching chicks in your classroom will definitely enhance the lessons). Oregon State University Extension Service developed the materials. Some county OSU Extension Office may help locate fertile eggs and provide the necessary equipment.