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  • Farm Anatomy Activities for Kids: FunLogin to Hold

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    Farm Anatomy Activities for Kids: Fun, Hands-On Learning

    Dawn Alexander

    No matter where you live, you can learn all about the amazing things that happen on farms. Farm Anatomy Activities for Kids combines the joy of hands-on experiments and activities with easy-to-understand lessons that teach you all about farm life.This farm anatomy activity book helps you think more like a farmer and understand how nature, crops, and animals shape the way we live. You’ll learn about all the different parts of a farm, the plants and animals you might find there, and how farms create the food you eat and the material for the clothes you wear. This book will need to be returned. Farm Anatomy Activities for Kids includes:
    • Educational lessons―Learn about the various parts of a farm, how they raise plants and animals, and the ways farms connect to your daily life no matter where you live.
    • Ways to play―Try out cool experiments like growing crops without soil or making a mason bee house.
    • Journal prompts―Reflect on what you’ve learned about farm anatomy with the thoughtful writing prompts paired with each activity.
    Take kids on an educational journey down to the farm without ever leaving home.
    Categories: Curriculum, General Agriculture, Plants, Science
    Resource Type: Books
  • Farm to Table and BeyondLogin to Hold

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    Farm to Table and Beyond

    Pamela A. Koch

    This book covers our growing global food system. Students engage in hands-on investigations of the cycling of matter in nature and the human impact on this cycle, explore and analyze their personal nutrition choices through scientific reasoning, and apply their learning through discussions and debates.
    Categories: Conservation & Natural Resources, Foods & Nutrition, Math, Science, Washington County Library
    Resource Type: Books
  • From Egg to HoneybeeLogin to Hold

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    From Egg to Honeybee

    Lisa Owings

    How do honeybees grow? Follow each step in the life cycle--from tiny eggs in the hive to busy bees making honey--in this interesting book!
    Categories: Animals, Science, Washington County Library
    Resource Type: Books
  • From Flower to HoneyLogin to Hold

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    From Flower to Honey

    Robin Nelson

    This book describes the process of making honey, from a bee's collection of nectar to honey production on a beekeeper's farm.
    Categories: Foods & Nutrition, Science, Washington County Library
    Resource Type: Books
  • From Grass to MilkLogin to Hold

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    From Grass to Milk

    Stacy Taus-Bolstad

    How does grass help cows make yummy milk? Follow each step in the food production cycle--from cows eating grass to ice-cold milk--in this fascinating book!
    Categories: Animals, Foods & Nutrition, Science, Washington County Library
    Resource Type: Books
  • From Milk to Ice CreamLogin to Hold

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    From Milk to Ice Cream

    Stacy Taus-Bolstad

    How does milk turn into frosty ice cream? Follow each step in the food production cycle--from milking a cow to eating a frozen treat--in this fascinating book!
    Categories: Food, Foods & Nutrition, Science, Washington County Library
    Resource Type: Books
  • From Sea to SaltLogin to Hold

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    From Sea to Salt

    Lisa Owings

    How does the salt in the sea become the salt you use at the dinner table? Follow each step in the process from evaporating the seawater to shipping the salt to a store in this fascinating book!
    Categories: Foods & Nutrition, Science, Washington County Library
    Resource Type: Books
  • From Sheep to SweaterLogin to Hold

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    From Sheep to Sweater

    Robin Nelson

    How does sheep's wool turn into cozy clothing? Follow each step in the production cycle--from shearing a sheep to pulling on a warm sweater--in this fascinating book!
    Categories: Animals, Lifecycles, Science, 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
  • Gregor Mendel: The Friar Who Grew PeasLogin to Hold

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    Gregor Mendel: The Friar Who Grew Peas

    Cheryl Bardoe

    Gregor Mendel explains to children the theory of heredity in simple-to-understand language and examples. Regarded as the world’s first geneticist, Gregor Mendel discovered one of the fundamental aspects of genetic science: animals, plants, and people all inherit and pass down traits through the same process. Living the slow-paced, contemplative life of a friar, Gregor Mendel was able to conceive and put into practice his great experiment—observing yellow peas, green peas, smooth peas, and wrinkled peas to craft his theory—years before scientists had any notion of genes. Includes an author’s note and bibliography.This book needs to be returned. 
    Categories: Lifecycles, Plants, Science
    Resource Type: Books
  • Growing FoodLogin to Hold

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    Growing Food

    Pamela A. Koch

    In this inquiry-based curriculum, elementary and middle school students learn science through the study of our fascinating food production system. Children will explore the cycles in nature, flow of energy, and food systems, while engaging in hands-on investigations of photosynthesis, food webs, agriculture, and more.
    Categories: Gardening, General Agriculture, Math, Science, Washington County Library
    Resource Type: Books
  • Ag Today - Issue 5Login to Hold

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    Ag Today – Issue 5

    National Agriculture in the Classroom

    This six part series is a publication of National Agriculture in the Classroom. Issue five explores how understanding the science, engineering, technology, and mathematics of agriculture, food, and natural resources is crucial for the future of all humanity. Teacher guide is included.Check out the e-book version and 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 6This item does not need to be returned.
    Categories: Conservation & Natural Resources, Farming, Science
    Resource Type: Printed Materials
  • Growing Patterns - Fibonacci NumbersLogin to Hold

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    Growing Patterns – Fibonacci Numbers

    Sarah Campbell

    What's the biggest mathematical mystery in nature? Fibonacci numbers! The pattern creeps up in the most unexpected places. It's clear that math holds secrets to nature and that nature holds secret numbers. This book will need to be returned.
    Categories: General Agriculture, Science
    Resource Type: Books
  • Ag Today - Issue 4Login to Hold

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    Ag Today – Issue 4

    National Agriculture in the Classroom

    This six part series is a publication of National Agriculture in the Classroom. Issue four looks at how the global movement of agriculture products continue to be driven by economics, and consumer demand and preferences. Agriculture, food, and natural resource systems continue to play an integral role in the evolution of societies both in the United States and the world. Teacher guide is included.Check out the e-book version and 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 5, Ag Today Issue 6This item doe not need to be returned.
    Categories: Conservation & Natural Resources, Foods & Nutrition, General Agriculture, History, Science
    Resource Type: Printed Materials
  • Jo MacDonald Had a GardenLogin to Hold

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    Jo MacDonald Had a Garden

    Mary Quattlebaum

    Old MacDonald had a ... garden? Yes! Sing along with young Jo MacDonald as she grows healthy food for people and wild creatures. E-I-E-I-O! Find out how butterflies, bumblebees, and birds help a garden to thrive - and how you can help them too. And keep an eye on one mysterious plant. What will it become? Youngsters learn about garden ecosystems and stewardship through this playful adaptation of Old MacDonald Had a Farm.
    Categories: Gardening, Science, Washington County Library
    Resource Type: Books
  • Velma Gratch and the Way Cool ButterflyLogin to Hold

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    Velma Gratch and the Way Cool Butterfly

    Alan Madison

    It's hard to be Velma, the littlest Gratch, entering the first grade. That's because everyone has marvelous memories of her two older sisters, who were practically perfect first graders. Poor Velma—people can barely remember her name. But all that changes on a class trip to the magnificent Butterfly Conservatory—a place neither of her sisters has ever been. When a monarch roosts on Velma's finger and won't budge for days . . . well, no one will forget Velma ever again. Acclaimed and bestselling illustrator Kevin Hawkes and author Alan Madison celebrate everything butterfly—from migration to metamorphosis. Watch as Velma Gratch metamorphosizes from a timid first grader into a confident young scientist!
    Categories: Insects, Science, Washington County Library
    Resource Type: Books