The Hayride: A Resource for Educational Farm Field Trips
This book provides a list of farms in the Appalachia community that allows schools to visit, and a list of what lessons to teach there.
Nonfiction
Big Ideas: Linking Food, Culture, Health, and the Environment
Big Ideas provides teachers, kindergarten through high school, ideas on how to educate their students about food, culture, health, and the environment. Using the four perspectives it lays out steps on how to educate students on food and food systems.
A River Ran Wild
Learn how the modern-day descendants of the Nashua Indians and European settlers were able to combat pollution and restore the beauty of the Nashua River in Massachusetts. The book’s beautiful illustrations depict the passage of time from early Native American tribes to modern day.
The Life and Times of the Honeybee
A history of bees, how they make honey, and how we harvest and use that honey.
How Did That Get Into My Lunchbox?
This book traces the origins of common foods like bread, cheese, apple juice, and chocolate chip cookies from the farm to the factory to the lunchbox. Brightly colored illustrations depict every stop along the way.
How Do You Raise a Raisin?
This book describes the process of growing grapes and drying them in the sun until they are raisins. Each page includes factual information about making raisins, as well as rhyming prose.
Hottest, Coldest, Highest, Deepest
Illustrated with beautiful cut-paper collages, this book describes some of the planet’s most extreme environments.