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Companion Resources

  • California Rice

    California Rice: Farming With Nature

    Grades 3-8 (DVD 15 min.) An excellent DVD that spotlights a family rice farm in California's Sacramento Valley as viewed through the eyes of 11-year-old Sue Miller. A farmer's daughter, Sue is just beginning to understand the important role her family's...

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  • Ancient Recipes

    Ancient Recipes - Food of Bible Times

    Grades 6-12 (DVD 40 min.) This DVD explores the foods from Egyptian, Greek, Roman, and Hebrew cultures. It also details how these foods shaped culture, religion and the development of their civilization. The video can be shown in segments.Lesson plans...

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  • All About Eggs

    All About Eggs

    Grades K-2 (DVD 17min.) Experience the miracle of baby chicks hatching and follow their development into mature hens. This video also shows how eggs are processed after leaving the farm including: inspection, washing, drying, and packaging...

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    Science in Your Shopping Cart

    Grades 3-8 (DVD 13 min.) We pay less for food than citizens of other nations; the United States enjoys the cheapest food in the world. Each year, dozens of improved products and new varieties of fruits, nuts, and vegetables emerge from the laboratories...

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  • 5 F's

    What is Agriculture?

    Grades K-12 (Poster) How would you define agriculture? Not with Merriam-Webster's Dictionary. That doesn't capture the importance of agriculture or how it touches all of our lives. Learn how to define agriculture with five words. The 5-F's of...

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  • plant part chart

    Plant Part Chart

    Grades K-5 (Poster) The fruits and vegetables we eat come from parts of a plant. Identify examples of roots, stems, leaves, flower, fruit and seeds using this colorful 25"X30" poster. Use with the lesson Eating Plants found on the National Agricultural...

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  • MyPlate Activity Poster

    MyPlate Activity Poster

    Grades K-12 (Poster) Use this 30" x 26" MyPlate Activity Poster in conjunction with the Food Models or other pictures of food to teach your students about food groups and healthy eating. MyPlate is the USDA's visual nutrition guide, which depicts a...

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  • wool spinning

    Wool Spinning

    Grades K-12 (Kit) Make social studies memorable with hands-on activities that involve students with the materials and techniques used for centuries to spin, dye, and felt wool. This kit contains 15 feet of wool top, 30 wool-spinning hooks, and...

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  • wool samples

    Wool Samples

    Grades K-5 (Kit) Kit comes with a sample of some scoured wool and some wool top. Scoured wool is wool that has been washed commercially so that grease and vegetable matter are removed. Wool top is wool that has been scoured, carded, and combed.Lesson...

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  • wool refill

    Wool Refill

    Grades K-12 (Kit) For more information about spinning and dyeing wool, take a look at this Hands-On With Wool activity.  Lesson plans associated with this kit can be found on the National Agricultural Literacy Curriculum Matrix.

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  • Wheat Fall 2019

    Wheat Bundle

    Grades K-8 (Kit) Wheat is the most widely used grain across the globe. Experience threshing and grinding the wheat with your students while discussing how bread is made in different cultures. Each wheat bundle has 35 stalks of wheat. A Note on Wheat...

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  • weather harvest game board

    Weather Harvest Game

    Grades 3-5 (Game) Farmers work with nature. Soil nutrients, planting, weed and insect control, machinery work, crop records and harvest are things farmers can control and manage. Farmers cannot control the weather. Crops may need to be planted more than...

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