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  • Corn - An A to Z BookLogin to Hold

    Total Available: 3 (of 3)

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    Corn – An A to Z Book

    Susan Anderson, JoAnne Buggey

    Learn about the life cycle of corn from A-to-Z through the voice of a tractor named Agri-Culture. Everything your students want to know about corn is in this book. This book will need to be returned.
  • Cotton Boll

    These cotton bolls are a great way to show students how cotton grows. Feel free to tear it apart and inspect, no need to return! Pairs well with King Cotton Lesson.
  • Potatoes - What's for LunchLogin to Hold

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    Corn – What’s for Lunch

    This book explains the many different uses of corn. Students learn what nutrients they get from this food, and why it is important to eat a balanced diet. Part of the What’s for Lunch series. This book will need to be returned.
  • Corn in the Story in AgricultureLogin to Hold

    Total Available: 3 (of 3)

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    Corn in the Story in Agriculture

    Susan Anderson

    Learn the story about corn in agriculture from seed to harvest. This book will need to be returned.
  • CowLogin to Hold

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    Cow

    It's hard work being a cow - you graze, you chew, and you rest. This book needs to be returned. 
  • Corn is Maize - The Gift of the IndiansLogin to Hold

    Total Available: 5 (of 5)

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    Corn is Maize – The Gift of the Indians

    Aliki

    The story of maize and the Native American farmers who found and nourished it from a wild grass plant into the corn we know today. Clear accurate illustrations accompany text on each page. This book will need to be returned.
  • Cranberries: Fruit of the BogsLogin to Hold

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    Cranberries: Fruit of the Bogs

    Diane Burns

    This is an amazing book about cranberry farming in America.  It is full of award-winning photographs of daily tasks on a cranberry farm.  Take a tour of two cranberry farms in Wisconsin and  follow the author as she describes in clear, concise prose the activities that take place throughout the growing season. This book needs to be returned. 
  • Cycling Back to Nature: Food Production and PesticidesLogin to Hold

    Total Available: 3 (of 5)

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    Cycling Back to Nature: Food Production and Pesticides

    Robert Horton

    This instructional unit is versatile and can be adapted to various grade levels. The guide contains information and lesson plans about the ecosystem, microorganisms, farmer role-playing, pesticides, and the environment, and world populations and food production. Well written and teacher friendly. These materials would be very useful in 5th grade science and economics education for grades 4-9.
  • Up in the Garden Down in the DirtLogin to Hold

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    Up in the Garden and Down in the Dirt

    Kate Messner, Christopher Silas Neal

    Up in the garden, the world is full of green leaves and sprouts, growing vegetables, and ripening fruit. But down in the dirt there is a busy world of earthworms digging, snakes hunting, skunks burrowing, and all the other animals that make a garden their home. In this exuberant and lyrical book, discover the wonders that lie hidden between stalks, under the shade of leaves and down in the dirt. This book needs to be returned. 
  • Cycling Back to Nature: Soils Alive! — From Tiny Rocks to CompostLogin to Hold

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    Cycling Back to Nature: Soils Alive! — From Tiny Rocks to Compost

    Robert Horton

    This hands-on guide explores Mother Nature's development of soil and soil enhancements through composting.
  • Dear TomatoLogin to Hold

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    Dear Tomato

    Collection of Poets

    From field to farmyard, to table to tummy, this amazing pairing of poetry about agriculture will entice your students to reflect on what they see on the farm. This book needs to be returned. 
  • Dairy Cows Send Their BestLogin to Hold

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    Dairy Cows Send Their Best

    Oregon Dairy and Nutrition Council

    Milk is a nutritional powerhouse packed with calcium and other essential nutrient's that fuel your body and strengthen your bones. Order from our website and we will send you a class set to keep! 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.
  • Dirt - The Scoop on SoilLogin to Hold

    Total Available: 4 (of 3)

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    Dirt – The Scoop on Soil

    Natalie M. Rosinsky

    Engage young readers in real science with this informative, fun, fact-filled book. This series is aligned with the standards, "The Earth" and "Forces of Nature" as required by Benchmarks for Science Literacy. This book needs to be returned. 
  • Dairy on MyPlateLogin to Hold

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    Dairy on MyPlate

    Dairy foods are smooth, creamy, and healthy. Learn about how MyPlate helps kids make great food choices every day, including dairy! This book will need to be returned.
  • 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.    
  • Down-to-Earth Enriching Learning through GardeningLogin to Hold

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    Down-to-Earth Enriching Learning through Gardening

    Bob Williamson, Ellen Smoak

    Through this hands-on, minds-on program, youth get the basics of botany, the gist of gardening, the essentials of ecology and much more. Award winning activity guide is an excellent resource.