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Soybeans an A-Z Book


This book introduces young readers to agriculture by providing basic information on soybeans while teaching them their alphabet.

Soybeans in the Story of Agriculture

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This wonderful children's book introduces students to five stages of soybeans as they make their way from farm to table.


Soybean Ag Mag
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The Soybean Ag Mag is a 4-page, colorful agricultural magazine for kids. It  contains information about agriculture, bright pictures, classroom activities, and agricultural career profiles, all focused on soybeans.

 
May 2010
NEW!
Pizza Ag Mag!

The new Pizza Ag Mag is an agricultural magazine for kids third to fifth grade that helps educators meet specific national standards for learning. The Ag Mag educates about math, science, social science and reading/language arts using the agricultural origins of pizza as a theme. It contains articles about the origins of pizza ingredients. It also includes: a pizza history time-line, fabulous fractions lesson, pizza probability activity, science experiments and career profiles in pizza professions.
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Soybean A-Z Educator Guide!

Soybean A-Z Educator Guide Digipack is for Prek-K classrooms. It includes a short video and several lesson plans including: Reading and basic shapes identification, Becoming a Bean Counter- mathematics and number writing,  Cool Beans- a science and creative arts lesson, and Get up and Get Growing- a physical exercise and seed germination activity where students use fingers, hands, arms, legs, and feet to act out what a soybean seed/plant needs to grow!
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soybeanbk Bean to Bean: A Soybeans in the Story of Agriculture Educator Guide

This lesson plan, made for 3rd -6th grade, helps educators meet specific national standards for learning. It covers: Reading/language arts, science, social science and creative arts. After reading the book and completing the lessons students will be able to identify the five sub-concepts of agriculture: production, processing, distribution, marketing, and consumerism, as well as identify characteristics of organisms, their life cycles, and their environments.They will also construct a soybean life cycle chain.

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