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  • Wool Spinning KitLogin to Hold

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    Wool Spinning Kit

    Students will get hooked on wool spinning as they learn about wool and where it comes from. Using carded wool and spinning hooks, students will create friendship bracelets to wear home! For more information on spinning and dyeing wool, please download our Wool Spinning lesson (included with kit). Also, check out Weaving the Rainbow, an excellent companion book for this activity.For further hands-on wool activities download this PDF, Hands-On With Wool. This document includes 5 different wool activities: spinning, Kool-Aid dying, natural dying, weaving the wool, and Ziploc felting. Detailed instructions and a materials list can also be located within this document.Kit generously donated by the Oregon Sheep Commission.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. This kit does not need to be returned.This Kit Includes: Hooks, wool, and a paper lesson plan
  • Amazing GrazingLogin to Hold

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    Amazing Grazing

    Visit three ranches in Montana as you read and learn about proper care of the land and its resources to raise healthy, productive cattle. This book needs to be returned. 
  • Aquaponics KitLogin to Hold

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    Aquaponics Kit

    Raise fish and grow salad greens in your classroom! This kit guides students through an investigation of what plants and animals need in order to survive, nutrient cycling, and how organisms interact in an ecosystem. This kit includes clear tubs, an overflow drain kit, submersible fountain pump, flexible tubing, clay pellets, a glow light, a timer, a water test kit, ammonium chloride, a thermometer, seeds, fish food, a fish net, an aquarium cave, and a construction and maintenance guide. Fish and water must be provided by the educator. Explore the companion lesson here.This item is loaned out on a yearly basis, and must be returned in June at the end of the academic year. This item is too large to be mailed and must be picked up from the Washington County office in Hillsboro.
  • Buffalo Bird Girl: A Hidatsa StoryLogin to Hold

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    Buffalo Bird Girl: A Hidatsa Story

    S.D. Nelson

    This fascinating picture book biography tells the childhood story of Buffalo Bird Woman—a Hidatsa Indian born around 1839. Through her true story, readers learn what it was like to be part of this Native American community, which lived along the Missouri River in the Dakotas, a society that depended on agriculture for food and survival rather than hunting. This book leads well into discussions of agricultural practices used by Oregon tribes both historically and today.
  • Calling the Doves/El Canto de las PalomasLogin to Hold

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    Calling the Doves/El Canto de las Palomas

    Juan Felipe Herrerra

    "Poet Juan Felipe Herrera's bilingual memoir paints a vivid picture of his migrant farmworker childhood. His rich, evocative prose re-creates the joy of eating under the open sky, celebrating at a fiesta with other farm families, and listening to his mother singing Mexican songs and his father calling the doves.Las memorias bilingües del poeta Juan Felipe Herrerra pintan una imagen vívida de su infancia campesina. Su prosa profunda y evocadora recrea la alegría de comer bajo el cielo abierto, de celebrar una fiesta con otras familias de agricultores, y de escuchar a su madre cantando canciones mexicanas y su padre llamando a las palomas. "
  • Cattle Kids- A Year on the Western RangeLogin to Hold

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    Cattle Kids- A Year on the Western Range

    Cal Urbigkit

    Beautiful, full-color photography illustrates this exciting portrayal of young people helping adults look after cattle, from calving and branding to haying, grazing and rounding up the herd. This book will need to be returned.
  • Cows Can Moo! Can You?Login to Hold

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    Cows Can Moo! Can You?

    Bonnie Worth

    Join the Cat in the Hat as he spends a day on the farm with Mr. and Mrs. Greenbean and their three little Greenbeans: Jean, Dean, and baby Irene! From dawn to dusk, kids will see cows being milked, chickens being fed, sheep being sheered, fields being tilled, fertilized, reaped, mowed, irrigated—and lots more! Ideal for kids who love animals AND for kids who love machines (in other words, all kids), this is a perfect choice for families making their first visit to a farm or petting zoo, or for explaining where food comes from. This book needs to be returned. 
  • 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.
  • Food and FarmingLogin to Hold

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    Food and Farming

    Picturepedia

    This book explains the world of food and farming with vivid pictures and clear concise text. It covers such topics as wheat, citrus fruits, pigs, underground vegetables and cocoa. This book will need to be returned.
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    US Wheat

    Oregon Wheat Commission

    This tri-fold shows students where the six different types of wheat in the United States is grown, and what they are used for. It also describes how wheat is shipped all over the world.
  • Ag Today - Issue 6Login to Hold

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    Ag Today – Issue 6

    National Agriculture in the Classroom

    This six part series is a publication of National Agriculture in the Classroom. Issue six focuses on the importance and stewardship of natural resources in sustainably delivering high quality food, fiber, and energy while at the same time maintaining a high quality environment. Teacher guide is included.Check out the e-book version and the online teacher guide! 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.Additional publications: Ag Today Issue 1, Ag Today Issue 2, Ag Today Issue 3, Ag Today Issue 4, Ag Today Issue 5This item does not need to be returned.
  • What's Bugging You?Login to Hold

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    What’s Bugging You?

    What's Bugging You — Grades 6-8 (Instructional Unit) This activity guide invites youth to explore the fascinating world of insects and learn valuable life skills through hands-on activities.
  • NW Food WheelLogin to Hold

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    NW Food Wheel

    The Northwest wheel shows foods sourced from Oregon, Washington, and Idaho as well as from coastal waters. Some of the unique local foods available in the region include an abundance of wild and cultivated berries, unique seafood items like geoduck!The wheel is 12 inches in diameter printed on card stock in bright, full color by GreenerPrinter in Berkeley, CA. On the back of the wheel is an alphabetical seasonality reference that provides additional information about each of the foods depicted on the front.
  • 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. 
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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. 
  • 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.