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  • 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
  • Outdoor Farm, Indoor FarmLogin to Hold

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    Outdoor Farm, Indoor Farm

    Lindsay H. Metcalf

    Discover how both outdoor and indoor farms sustainably grow the food we eat throughout the year in this vibrant, rhyming picture book.Outdoor farm, tractors toil.Indoor farm, zero soil.With energetic, enchanting verse and sunshiny, colorful illustrations, discover how the food you eat is grown both outside—and inside! Join two children as they explore the inner workings of an outdoor farm and an indoor farm. You’ll see how a variety of amazing machinery like tractors and drones along with innovative farming techniques yield the wonderful food we all love to enjoy.This book must be returned.
    Categories: Farming, Food, General Agriculture, Literacy Project Books, Plants, Science, Soils, Technology, Washington County Library
    Resource Type: Books
  • Discover Agriculture Careers Card SetLogin to Hold

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    Discover Agriculture Careers Card Set

    Wondering what job titles are out there, what they involve, where they’re located, and how much they pay? Interested in the education and experience needed to land them? This 48-card career set is a great way to explore the possibilities, get inspired, and start planning a future in agriculture! This product must be returned.

    These career cards pair great with the Discover Agriculture Careers Lesson. Check out the lessons by clicking on the links below:

    Grades 6-8: Discover Agriculture Careers: One Problem at a Time (Grades 6-8) – Curriculum Matrix | Oregon Agriculture in the Classroom Foundation

    Grades 9-12: Discover Agriculture Careers: One Problem at a Time (Grades 9-12) – Curriculum Matrix | Oregon Agriculture in the Classroom Foundation

    Categories: Animals, Careers, Farming, Technology
    Resource Type: card set
  • Science in Your Shopping CartLogin to Hold

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    Science in Your Shopping Cart

    Science in Your Shopping Cart shows us just how much science is behind the everyday items we use, eat, and wear. In the United States, we pay less for food than almost any other country. Every year, researchers introduce dozens of new and improved varieties of fruits, vegetables, and other products. But as we walk through the grocery store, do we ever stop to think about where this incredible abundance and variety comes from? This book helps us understand the science that makes it all possible.
    Categories: Animals, Farming, Food, Foods & Nutrition, General Agriculture, Plants, Technology
    Resource Type: Booklets, Printed Materials
  • Agricultural DronesLogin to Hold

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    Agricultural Drones

    Simon Rose

    Farm fields can span hundreds of acres. With so much area to cover, checking crops and livestock can be difficult. But with an agricultural drone, this job becomes much simpler. Young readers will discover how drones help farmers maximize efficiencies and bring abundant harvests. This book needs to be returned. 
    Categories: Careers, Farming, Food, Science, Technology
    Resource Type: Books
  • Combine HarvestersLogin to Hold

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    Combine Harvesters

    Hannah Wilson

    This book belongs to the great Kingfisher Readers series. This series includes books made for different reading levels, this book is level 2. It includes engaging pictures to help readers understand, as well as adding in longer sentences with a broader vocabulary. This book will give students a more in depth understanding of what a combine looks like and how farmers use this large piece of machinery to harvest their crops. This book will need to be returned.
    Categories: Farming, Technology
    Resource Type: Books
  • Fantastic Farm MachinesLogin to Hold

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    Fantastic Farm Machines

    Cris Peterson

    The day-to-day business of growing and harvesting crops for food is brought to dramatic life in this Nebraska Children's Agriculture Book of the Year as children see farmers and their machinery hard at work. Farmers lifted and hauled, cut and chopped, plowed and planted, watered and mowed by hand or with horses and simple equipment--until the first tractor appeared. Now there are tractors with eight wheels and tires big enough to stand in, skid steers with buckets for lifting, and sprayers that look like huge prehistoric birds, as well as many other modern computerized farming machines. Here's a look at farm machinery in the modern age.
    Categories: Farming, Technology, Washington County Library
    Resource Type: Books
  • Full of BeansLogin to Hold

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    Full of Beans, Henry Ford Grows a Car

    Peggy Thomas

    With a mind for ingenuity, Henry Ford looked to improve life for others. After the Great Depression struck, Ford especially wanted to support ailing farmers. For two years, Ford and his team researched ways to use farmers' crops in his Ford Motor Company. They discovered that the soybean was the perfect answer. Soon, Ford's cars contained many soybean plastic parts, and Ford incorporated soybeans into every part of his life. He ate soybeans, he wore clothes made of soybean fabric, and he wanted to drive soybeans, too. Award-winning author Peggy Thomas and illustrator Edwin Fotheringham explore this American icon's little-known quest. This book needs to be returned. 
    Categories: Careers, Farming, General Agriculture, History, Science, Technology
    Resource Type: Books
  • How to Build a HugLogin to Hold

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    How to Build a Hug

    Amy Guglielmo, Jacqueline Tourville

    As a young girl, Temple Grandin loved folding paper kites, making obstacle courses, and building lean-tos. But she really didn’t like hugs. Temple wanted to be held—but to her, hugs felt like being stuffed inside the scratchiest sock in the world; like a tidal wave of dentist drills, sandpaper, and awful cologne, coming at her all at once. Would she ever get to enjoy the comfort of a hug?Then one day, Temple had an idea. If she couldn’t receive a hug, she would make one…she would build a hug machine! This book needs to be returned. 
    Categories: Animals, General Agriculture, Technology
    Resource Type: Books
  • John DeereLogin to Hold

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    John Deere, That’s Who!

    Tracy Nelson Maurer

    Back in the 1830s, John Deere was a young blacksmith from Vermont, about to make his mark on American history. He moved to Illinois, where farmers were struggling to plow through the thick, rich soil they called gumbo. Hee tinkered and tweaked and tested until he invented a steel plow that sliced into the prairie easy as you please. Long before the first tractor, John Deere changed farming forever. This book will need to be returned.
    Categories: Farming, General Agriculture, History, Literacy Project Books, Technology
    Resource Type: Books
  • Lincoln Clears a Path: Abraham Lincoln's Agricultural LegacyLogin to Hold

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    Lincoln Clears a Path: Abraham Lincoln’s Agricultural Legacy

    Peggy Thomas

    As a boy, Abraham Lincoln helped his family break through the wilderness and struggle on a frontier farm. When Lincoln was a young man, friends made it easier for him to get a better education and become a lawyer, so as a politician he paved the way for better schools and roads. President Lincoln cleared a path to better farming, improved transportation, accessible education, and most importantly, freedom. Author Peggy Thomas uncovers Abraham Lincoln's passion for agriculture and his country while illustrator Stacy Innerst cleverly provides a clear look as President Lincoln strives for positive change.This item needs to be retuned.
    Categories: Careers, Farming, General Agriculture, History, Technology
    Resource Type: Books
  • Seasons on a FarmLogin to Hold

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    Seasons on a Farm

    Nancy Dickmann

    This book uses colorful photos and simple text to introduce children to how the changing seasons affect life on a farm.
    Categories: Farming, Seasonal, Technology, Washington County Library
    Resource Type: Books
  • Temple Grandin: How the Girl Who Loved Cows Embraced Autism and Changed the WorldLogin to Hold

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    Temple Grandin: How the Girl Who Loved Cows Embraced Autism and Changed the World

    Sy Montgomery

    When Temple Grandin was born, her parents knew she was different. Years later she was diagnosed with autism. Temple’s doctor recommended institutionalizing her, but her mother believed in her. Temple went to school instead. Today, Dr. Temple Grandin, a scientist and professor of animal science at Colorado State University, is an autism advocate and her world-changing career revolutionized the livestock industry. This compelling biography and Temple's personal photos take us inside her extraordinary mind and open the door to a broader understanding of autism. This is a great resource for teaching about careers in agriculture!
    Categories: Animals, Farming, History, Technology, Washington County Library
    Resource Type: Books
  • The Boy Who Harnessed The WindLogin to Hold

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    The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind

    William Kamkwamba

    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.
    Categories: General Agriculture, Technology, Washington County Library
    Resource Type: Books
  • The Girl Who Thought in Pictures: the Story of Dr. Temple GrandinLogin to Hold

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    The Girl Who Thought in Pictures: the Story of Dr. Temple Grandin

    Julia Finley Mosca

    When young Temple was diagnosed with autism, no one expected her to talk, let alone become one of the most powerful voices in modern science. Yet, the determined visual thinker did just that. Her unique mind allowed her to connect with animals in a special way, helping her invent groundbreaking improvements for farms around the globe! This is a great resource for teaching about careers in agriculture.
    Categories: Animals, History, Science, Technology, Washington County Library
    Resource Type: Books
  • The Man Who Fed the WorldLogin to Hold

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    The Man Who Fed the World

    Leon Hesser

    Dr. Norman Borlaug, one of the world's greatest heroes, is the most highly-decorated individual of our time. He is credited with saving over a billion people from starvation. Dr. Borlaug is only one of seven people in history to win all three of the following awards: the Nobel Peace Prize, the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Gold Medal. In addition, Dr. Borlaug received the Padma Vibhushan, the highest civilian award the government of India can present to a non-citizen. The Man Who Fed the World has won three national book of the year awards: USA Booknews best Biography of the Year. The American Farm Bureau for Agriculture Best Book of the Year award, and Florida Publishers Association Best Book Award. This book needs to be returned. 
    Categories: Careers, Conservation & Natural Resources, Farming, Food, Foods & Nutrition, General Agriculture, History, Technology
    Resource Type: Books