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Beef Products Poster
Grades 3-5
  This 36" x 24" poster helps your students discover what products come from amazing cattle, it will surprise you!
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First Peas to the Table
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Soybean Products Poster
Grades 3-5
  This 24" x 36" poster helps your students discover what products come from the amazing soybean, it will surprise you!
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First Peas to the Table
  2012 Book of the Year: First Peas to the Table
Grades K-3
  This book is the story of Maya's class having a contest to see which student's peas will be ready first, like Thomas Jefferson used to do with his neighbors.
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First Peas to the Table
  2011 Book of the Year: Grandpa's Tractor
Grades K-3
  This book tells the story of Grandpa Joe’s old best friend, a red tractor, and how he brings his grandson back to the site of the family farm to share it with him.
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Grandpa's Tractor
  2011 Book of the Year: The Beef Princess
of Practical County
Grades: 4-5
 

This book is the story of Libby Ryan’s turn to shine at the Practical County Fair and how she learns the reality of having to sell her cattle.
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Beef Princess of Practical County
  2010 Book of the Year:
Seed, Soil, Sun: Earth’s Recipe for Food
Grades 4-5
  This book describes the seemingly miraculous process by which air and water combine with seed, soil, and sun to create nearly all the food we eat.
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2009 Book of the Year: Plant Secrets
  2009 Book of the Year:
Plant Secrets
Grades K-3
  This book of simple text and colorful illustrations follows the life cycle of plants as they grow from seed, to plant, to flower, to fruit and back to seed.
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2009 Book of the Year: Plant Secrets
  2009 Book of the Year:
George Washington Carver: Scientist, Inventor, and Teacher
Grades 4-5
  This biography discusses George Washington Carver's determination to educate himself and his invention of more than 300 peanut products.
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Biotechnology at Your Desktop CDROM Grades 7-12
  2008 Book of the Year:
Clarabelle: Making Milk and So Much More
Grades K-3
  This book features Clarabelle and her calf on a large, modern-day Wisconsin farm and describes the latest technology that enables farmers to create energy and other by-products from their herds.
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Biotechnology at Your Desktop CDROM Grades 7-12
  2008 Book of the Year:
Farmer George Plants a Nation
Grades 4-5
  This book is about George Washington, a general, the first president of the United States and a farmer. Through his letters we learn how his efforts to create a self-sufficient farm mirrored his struggle to create a free nation.
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Farmer George Plants a Nation Book of the Year 2008
  2007 Book of the Year: Where Does Food Come From?
Grades K-3
  This book is a photo essay that teaches children that the source of their food is not the supermarket.
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Where Does Food Come From?
  2007 Book of the Year: Husker Numbers: A Nebraska Number Book
Grades 4-5
  This book uses numbers to give an entertaining and educational travelogue of Nebraska. FREE Teacher's Guide with book.
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Husker Numbers
  2006 Book of the Year: Fantastic Farm Machines Grades K-3
 

This book introduces readers to 12 large pieces of farm machinery and shows how they help get the job done.
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Fantastic Farm Machines
  2006 Book of the Year: C is for Cornhusker: A Nebraska Alphabet
Grades 4-5
  This book takes you on alphabet adventure that explores fascinating facts about Nebraska. FREE Teacher's Guide with book.
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C is for Cornhusker
  A'maize' ing Corn Activities
Grades 3-4
  An integrated unit with daily lesson plans and many student activities.
18 pages
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Corn Packet
  Animal Rummy
Grades K-2
  A card game to help students identify farm animals.
15 pages
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Animal Rummy
  Beef Reader
Grades 3-6
  This resource is an eight-page student activity booklet teaching students about beef all while meeting state standards in math, science, language arts and social studies. Packaged in classroom sets of 30. 8 pages.
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Beef Reader
  The Big Apple
Grades 5-12
  Individual and group activities designed to convey the experience of buying and selling in a competitive market.
11 pages
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The Big Apple
  Biotechnology at Your Desktop CD-ROM
Grades 7-12
  This CD-ROM has step-by-step visual and printed instructions to complete 7 biotechnology labs.
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Biotechnology at Your Desktop CDROM Grades 7-12
  Cheeseburger Activities
Grades K-4
  Art, writing, sequencing, fill-in-the-blanks, matching, math maze and mapping activities all about the cheeseburger.
15 pages
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Cheeseburger Activities
  Corn
Grades 2-3
  This packet contains a literature book, teacher's guide, student activities and corn seeds. 22 pages
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Corn
  Crop Cards and Seeds
Grades K-12
  8 1/2" x 11" color coordinated cards illustrating 10 major crops. Illustrations of plants on one side, information on the other. Seed samples included.
Download Crop Cards
10 pages
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Crop Cards and Seeds
  Crop & Livestock Bookmarks
Grades K-12
  This set of 40, 2-sided bookmarks features fun facts about some of Nebraska's crops and livestock.
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Crop Cards and Seeds
  Farming in a Glove Kit
Grades 1-2
 

Grow four different types of seeds in a plastic glove. Kit includes 1 copy of the activity and materials for 30 students.
8 pages
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Farming in a Glove
  The Incredible Egg
Grades 3-4
  An integrated unit with daily lesson plans and many student activities.
37 pages
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The Incredible Egg
  Livestock Cards
Grades K-12
  8 1/2" x 11" color coordinated cards illustrating five major livestock. Illustrations of animal on one side, information on the other and one vocabulary card.
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6 pages
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Livestock Cards
 

Nebraska Agricultural Production Lesson Plans
Grades 4-6
  Four lesson plans that integrate concepts and information from the Nebraska Production Map, Crop Cards and Livestock Cards.
11 pages
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Nebraska Agricultural Production Lesson Plans
  Nebraska Agricultural Production Map
Grades K-12
  24" x 36" laminated map of Nebraska with symbols indicating major crops and livestock produced in each county.
1 page
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Nebraska Agricultural Production Map
  A Peek at Pork
Grades 3-4
 

This packet contains "The Amazing Pig" DVD and teacher's guide with lessons about mapping, the food chain, pork products, food processing and nutrition.
23 pages
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A Peek at Pork
  Pig Mania
Grades 4-6
 

Teacher's guide and student lessons about pigs working with vocabulary, math, reading comprehension and nutrition.
14 pages
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Pig Mania
  Popcorn Folder Activities
Grades 3-4
  Language arts activities focusing on popcorn.
31 pages
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Popcorn Folder Activities
  Popular Potatoes
Grades 1-2
  Activities focusing on the potato, teaching basic concepts in science.
24 pages
  Price: $2.00     Quantity:
Popular Potatoes
  SLICE
Grades K-6
  Activity sheets and bulletin board materials teaching the food marketing chain from production to the consumer.
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SLICE
  Soybeans
Grades 3-4
  This packet contains a literature book, teacher's guide, student activities and soybean seeds.
28 pages
  Price: $8.00     Quantity:
Teach Me About Soybeans
  Special Package Deal: Crop Cards, Livestock Cards, Nebraska Agricultural Map and Lesson Plans
  The complete packet of intermediate level educational resources focusing on Nebraska agricultural production.
  Price: $17.00     Quantity:
Special Package Deal
  Sports & Agriculture Bookmarks
Grades K-12
  This set of 40, 2-sided bookmarks feature football, baseball, basketball and volleyball facts that relate to agriculture.
  Price: $3.00     Quantity:
Sports and Agriculture Bookmarks

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