Tellus, formerly known as AgResearch Magazine, is a scientific publication featuring articles written in an easy-to-understand fashion. It is recommended for secondary science and agricultural educators seeking to enhance their curriculum with the latest agricultural research. View the current issue or archives by visiting the website.
The text and illustrations follow the process of fabric-making from boll to bolt. This book is a great introduction to cotton processing.
Pumpkin Circle provides a bug's eye view and a bird's high view of seeds sprouting, flowers blooming, bees buzzing, pumpkins growing and, finally, going back to earth. Told in verse and through dramatic photography as an orange gloved-gardener plants, tends, and harvests a backyard pumpkin patch.
Follow this family as they search for the perfect pumpkin to make pumpkin pie.
Learn all about pumpkins, science, and math as "Mr Tiffin's" class figures out how many seeds are in a pumpkin.
Learn about how Gregor Mendel's fascination for genetic traits led him to to become the world's first geneticist. Mendel overcame poverty and discovered one of the fundamental aspects of genetic science. He studied inheritance of animals, plants, and people learning how they pass traits from one generation to another. This book outlines Mendel's life and his discoveries in an easy to understand format.
This 32-page book describes and illustrates the process of milk production from the care of the cows to the processing of the milk and each step in between.
This is a story of a young girl who helps her grandpa tend to his beehives so he can pass the legacy of being a beekeeper on to her. The book has soft oil paintings and simple illustrations which leave readers with a warm feeling of a shared experience between grandfather and granddaughter. However, it does not provide a great deal of information about bees.
An alphabetical tour of the world of fruit and vegetables from apricot and artichoke to yam and zucchini.
From A-Z, the garden is depicted with spare words and striking graphics. This elementary book reinforce the letters of the alphabet and gardening simultaneously.
Food is cut into halves, thirds, and fourths to illustrate how parts make a whole. Enjoy a photographic feast of fractions as two playful youngsters eat their way through.
Follow the tale of Peter Rabbit in Mr. McGregor's garden. This book was named the second best-selling children's book of all time by Publishers Weekly.