Cooking with Herb, The Vegetarian Dragon

This cookbook for kids follows Herb on his vegetarian cooking adventures, from his Grandma teaching him to cook to being asked to cook for the King and Queen! With recipes for Veggie Burgers, Risotto, and Salsa, families can read this book together and cook alongside Herb while following his flavorful journey.

The ABC’s of Fruits and Vegetables and Beyond

This book highlights fresh fruits and vegetables through the ABC’s, with a fun and creative poem for each letter.  Beyond just the ABC’s are fun facts and activities including recipes and book recommendations about each featured produce. Check out the recipes for Applewiches and Pot of Gold Biscuits that can be made with local Apples and

Baking in a Box, Cooking on a Can

Learn to cook your favorite foods outdoors with a little ingenuity, extra safety precautions, and adult supervision. This book gives you all the recipes and instructions to start cooking outside with a cardboard box, tin toil and tape or a tin can.

Botany on Your Plate: Investigating the Plants We Eat

This curriculum, developed by the University of California Botanical Garden Programs alongside local school districts and youth organizations, presents itself as a life science unit for grades k-4 that explores the plants we eat.  With eight lessons that include dissections, tastings, diagrams, experiments, investigative questions and reflection questions, students will take their first steps to

The Growing Classroom: Garden-Based Science

Science plus gardening gives us the “Life Lab”, where students can observe with their own eyes the concepts they learn in science class.  In this book, Roberta and Gary have provided more than 150 field-tested, garden based activities that will get students outside observing our world’s natural rhythms while potentially sparking a scientific interest in

FoodMASTER: Using Food to Teach Math and Science Skills (w/ Teacher Edition)

FoodMASTER provides lessons that allow students to apply their math and science skills to real-world practices in the kitchen.  The teacher edition explains what teachers are responsible for throughout the class, and suggests how to space out the lesson so time is used as efficiently as possible.  The student edition provides fun classroom activities and

Planning for Inquiry: It’s Not an Oxymoron!

With new guidelines and requirements that have made their way into all school system’s curricula, teachers have found it very difficult to bring their own creativity into the classroom. If you’re an educator that believes there is more to teaching than just reading a script, than this book is for you.  Diane Parker invites you

More Picture-Perfect Science Lessons

When looking back and thinking about your favorite childhood books that helped shape our imagination and inspire wonder, what pops into your head:  A dry, to-the-point science textbook, or an elaborate picture book about Mexican jumping beans?  Karen Ansberry and Emily Morgan have theorized that reading science textbooks alone won’t capture a child’s attention enough

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