MATERIALS AVAILABLE FOR LOAN
(Two-Week Renewable Loan)
Materials are available to all educators on loan at no charge and can be reserved by calling the office at 603-224-1934, on the web at www.nhagintheclass.org, email to LISAN@nhfarmbureau.org or fax us at 228-8432. Please contact us with any questions. NHAITC is always receiving new curriculum on many topics, if you have a specific topic you are working on and would like to know what is available please contact our office.
Agriculture & the Environment: A guidebook that offers background information for teachers to use in classroom curriculum. Comes with 5 different activities that cover IPM, Food Safety, Water Quality, Understanding Wetlands and Endangered Species.
All About Cranberries: This kit contains everything an educator could want to discuss of only three North America’s native fruits, the cranberry. The history of the cranberry and its uses are covered along with the unique cultivation using bogs.
Apple Packet: Includes All About Apples teaching kit and color poster produced by the NY Apple Institute. A is for Apple activity book by Project S.E.E., Concord NH. A listing of NH Apple Orchards, video's and many apple activities/lessons that over all subjects using apples as the theme. Grades Pre-K - 4
Aquaculture Educational Activities: A complete packet to engage an entire class in an aquaculture project. Encourages students to use many science skills such as measuring, observing, record keeping, graphing and more. Students will furtherlearn the importance of resource management and maintaining natural ecosystems.
Bees and Pollination: This packet is a great one to use in conjunction with the apple packet but can certainly be used on its own. Includes What's Buzzin video and teacher's guide by the National Honey Board, Reading Rainbow's video and book Paula Hogan entitled, The Life Cycle of the Honeybee along with color posters showing the life cycle of the honeybee and the seasonal work of a beekeeper. Many activities included to use in all subjects with bees as the focus Grades Pre-K - 6
Benny Broccoli and his Buddies: An educational program that takes you from seeding' to feeding! Geared for 2nd through 4th grade, a complete kit of activities with specific subject focus. Copy masters are included and make the learning of agriculture and nutrition lots of fun!
Bugs in My Bed! Bugs in My Soup!: This unit consists of a curriculum guide for elementary teachers that focuses on two life science areas - entomology and agriculture. The unit is filled with games, activities, videos, slide show and more!
Caretaker's All: This packet produced by the National Livestock & Meat Board explores how farmers and ranchers care for their natural resources, water, soil, plants and animals. Study prints, discussion & hands-on activities help the student understand the importance of caring for the environment and emphasize practices used by farmers to protect the environment. Grades 3- 5
Classroom Gardening: Resources include Activities for Growing Minds, Benny Broccoli and Friends, A complete Guide to Gardening in the Classroom published by the National Gardening Association as well as a set of posters that focus on seeds, plant parts, growing a salad and developing a gardening unit. A series of 7 books produced by 4-H includes valuable plant lesson plans that any school budget can swing. The lessons are appropriate for grades K-8, very user-friendly, especially if you fear you have a black thumb! They can be used as a complete unit over several months or divided into single experiments. Grades 1-8
Coming to America: This study kit offers students a realistic view of the hardships and determination of the Pilgrims through lessons, study prints and hands-on activities. Lessons explore the voyage route, provisions, settlement of New Plymouth, early farming practices, food preservation techniques and the roots of Thanksgiving. Grades 4-6
Conifers & Trees: This packet includes a 30 minute video and guide produced by the National Christmas Tree Assoc., A listing of NH tree farms, a wonderful guide and poster set called the "The Life of the Forest produced by the Champion Corp. This set explores the aspects of forest life from the seed taking root, the importance of a forest to the ecosystems through the many products we get from trees, complete with 15 beautiful posters for tree identification and lots more! Also included is great lesson plans produced by Project Learning Tree that explore the diversity of the forest, habitats, life cycles and much more.
Corn: Those Amazing Kernels of Corn. - A fun filled, lively video geared to 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders describing the many uses of com in everyday items. Kit comes with many reproducible handouts like math problems, word finds etc., Pre-k -3.
Dig In: An Expedition to an Ancient Culture. With teaching guide, curriculum tie-ins, posters, tests & audiocassette. This Expedition will help students understand how lifestyles differ by comparing their own lifestyles with those of an ancient culture - Egypt. Grades 3-4
Digging for Data: A science video kit with a 22 minute video program that demonstrates the importance of the process of scientific inquiry by following two students, Sandy and Jake, who research the effects of genetics and diet on height. In the first segment, the students learn what tools Early Archaic Native Americans used what food they ate and what variety of meats, berries and nuts were available. The students then travel to a restored mid-19* century rural American home of a Norwegian immigrant, meet with a University animal scientist who explains how technology has changed the food we eat and unproved our diet. In the final episode, the students meet with a food technologist in a supermarket where they become aware of how food technology has made food safe and has given us more variety in our diet. Grade 5-6
Farm Authors: NHAITC has compiled a list of N.H. farm authors. The list includes a brief biography of the author and the books they've written. Included is a list of suggested books for developing agricultural units, and lists of other literature that will be helpful when teaching agricultural themes.
Farm Facts: End-user friendly lesson plans topics requiring less than 10 minutes of prep-time for the teachers and loaded with excellent projects. Topics for 4th - 6th grades include; Agricultural Time Line, Agriculture-It's Daily News, Farm Analogies, Farming-It's A Fact, Measuring Products, Special Opportunities.
Topics for 7th - 12th grades include; Agricultural Productivity, The Consumer's Friend, Agriculture and International Trade,Agriculture Is More Than Just Food, Farmers Do More Than Farm, Farming and the Government, America the Bountiful, Farming is a Business, Technology and the Changing Farm Environment. Grades 4-6 and 7-12
Fit for a King: This kit focuses on helping children understand the role of nutrition and regular physical activity in a healthy lifestyle. It contains a video, educator guide, reproducible activitiy & test sheets and posters. Ages 8 - 11.
Food Doesn't Grow in the Supermarket: A teachers guides with various activities and a video that highlights the importance of agriculture in a student’s daily life. Grades 4-6
From Wheat to Bread: This unit contains the booklet "The Story of Wheat", a video "Hidden Harvest" and lots of activities, worksheets and background information. Students discover the importance that wheat has as a source of food around the world.
Fueled for Flight: This complete kit focuses on astronauts and space flight as a supplement to your science and math curriculum. Contains a video, teachers guide and reproducible masters. All lessons comply with national standards for math and science and are clearly outlines. Grades 3-6
Grass to Milk CD: An interactive CD written by Nancy Whitehouse, M.S. that can also be purchased for your class room. The CD covers four major areas of dairy science and is filled with a showtime movie, reproducible worksheets, quizzes, raphics and so much more, a must for any classroom. Grades 3-6
Horses, Genetics and the Elementary Child: This unit consists of several components that can be taught as separate units or altogether. Topics include: basic equine care, grooming, feed, breed information, genetics and the history of horses in New England history. Unit is filled with books, videos, posters, models and a suggested guest speaker list. Grades 4-7
Lessons in Economics: This kit comes complete with a video, four lesson guides, a booklet of graphs and supporting data, transparencies, classroom poster and a list of internet sites and additional resources that uses agriculture to cover 4 economic concepts: Grades 5-8
Let's Explore The Farm with Buzzy: Take a trip to a real working farm, over 30 fascinating locations to explore more than 215 objects explained in detail, no reading required -great for pre-readers, 5 udderly entertaining games. Works on Windows 3.1, Windows 95 or Macintosh Computers. Great for ages 3-8
Moon Rocks and Snacks in Space: Various lesson plans with many activities to discuss the growing of plants in space and providing food for astronauts. Grades 3-5
Mushroom Quest: For Fungi Fun: Zoom through this cooperative learning packet for 9, 10, and 11-year old children. The packet is integrated with curricula for this age level to expand learning in all subjects (math, science, art etc.) through turnkey lessons. Easy to use, the lessons develop in a progressive sequence. Filled with posters, stickers, games and more.
New Hampshire Agricultural History: These materials are designed to help teachers who are working on a NH history unit. Included is a 30 minute video, Growing Up in New England produced by Old Sturbridge Village, and class room activities which focus on seasonal work, weather, farm products and a family tree with which students can research their own agricultural roots. The video explores the daily work and decisions facing children growing up on on seasonal work, weather, farm products and a family tree with which students can research their own agricultural roots. The video explores the daily work and decisions facing children growing up on a New England Farm in the 1800's. Grade 3 - 6.
Noah's Ark Today: An integrated science curriculum on farm animal utility, diversity and conservation for elementary school students. Kit is complete with slide show and script, teachers guide and activities for each grade level including independent, small group, and whole class projects. Grades 3-6
Nutrition Education: Materials Catalog produced by New England Dairy and Food Council. This catalog lists the materials available through Dairy and Food Council to help educate all groups about nutrition.
Pigs and Pork: This unit contains a kit from the Indiana Farm Bureau entitled, Where Pork Comes From. It includes a 9 minute video and supporting classroom activities. Also included in the pork unit is various story books on pigs, videos and other curriculum units that focus on pigs and pork. Grades Pre-k - 5.
Popcorn: This multi-faceted teaching resource was designed for grades K-8 and includes factual popcorn information as well as creative teaching ideas. It was designed and classroom tested by educators just like you.
Poultry and Eggs: This unit includes The Amazing Egg Book by Margaret Griffin and Deborah Seed, From Egg to Chick: A 4-H Manual of Embryology and Incubation. The Incredible Journey from Hen to Home produced by the American Egg Board and a set of slides showing the development of a chick inside the egg and excellent storybooks relating to poultry. Grades 1 - 4. Incubators and a fertilized egg source are also available through NHAITC.
Pumpkin Unit: Includes the book, In A Pumpkin Shell by Jennifer Gillis, a pumpkin bibliography, pumpkin recipes and a thematic pumpkin study unit developed by a NH teacher along with The Pumpking circle, a book and video set narrated by Danny Glover that highlights the life cyle of pumpkins. Grades Pre-K -5.
Sheep and Wool: resource packet contains background information and student activities which focus on the history and wool and characteristics of sheep and wool. Included with the packet are instructions for simple spinning, dyeing and weaving of wool, samples of wool, a small poster showing different sheep breeds, a 10 minute video entitled Wool: From Farm to Fabric Naturally and an interdisciplinary kit produced by the National Farm -City Council entitled It's A Puzzlement which explores different types of fibers. Grades K and up.
Sheep in a Box: This kit is a great teaching tool that incorporates sheep and wool into your curriculum while aligning with national standards. Comes complete with fleece, hands-on activities complete with supplies, fiber crafts, video, children's book lesson plans, test and so much more. Very educator friendly, you don’t need to be a sheep expert at all! Pre-K - 6.
S.L.I.C.E.: This resource packet produced by the National Farm-City Council explores the sources of foods we eat every day and focuses especially on pizza. It includes activities in science, math and language arts. Grades 2 -5.
Soils: This packet contains: The Amazing Dirt Book by Paulette Bourgeois, Beyond Mudpies produced by Hillsborough County Conservation District and an activity entitled Where Did Your Thanksgiving Dinner Come From? Grades 2 - 5.
The Green Food Factory: A complete teacher's guide that focuses on the production and use of crops. Activities in the project are focused around the power of a seed and are complete with directions, hands-on activities and follow-up activities to further enhance the learning.
Worming YourWay to Better Compost: The ABC's of worm composting, published by the NH Governors Recycling Program. A step by step process to composting in the classroom. Also included is the classroom activities book entitled “Worms Eat our Garbage by Mary Appelhof, filled with all the information on worms needed for successful composting in the class.
Visiting A Farm? Safe and Sound Says Safety Hound is a book and video designed by Perceptions, Inc. for pre-school and first grade students which covers some basic farm facts that help insure a safer field trip.
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