Wessels Living History Farm
Wessels Living History Farm
The Wessels Living History Farm of York County, Nebraska, offers a look at what it was like to live on a Great Plains farm in the 1920s. The farm's attractive and well organized website includes interviews with people who remember life...
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of American History: Delivering the Goods: Watsonville. California 1895
Railroads changed agriculture. As railways linked farms to a wider commercial world, city dwellers could buy fruits and vegetables year-round. Farms became commercialized, often specializing in single crops and tied to the ups and downs...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Farm and City
This video from Wide Angle reports on the increasingly difficult conditions for farmers in China that have caused many rural Chinese to flee the countryside.
Other
Camp Silos: Introduction to Farming Today and Tomorrow
Student-friendly site explaining the history of farming. The section on farming today and tomorrow gives viewers the opportunity to see pigs being born. Requires QuickTime plug-in.
South Carolina Educational Television
Etv: The Last Auction
Interactive experience that allows students to walk through a small, farming town in South Carolina, and see its transition from a tobacco farming community and a textile based economy to a new economy. Witness the residents' struggles...
PBS
Pbs Kids: Lunch Lab: Hectic Harvest Game
Learn how to run the farm by planting and caring for crops, but be fast or you will lose money.
Geographypods
Geographypods: Theme 3: Economic Development: Agricultural Systems
This learning module looks at features and types of agricultural systems, including large scale commercial farming, small scale subsistence farming, causes and effects of food shortages, and how food aid is distributed during a famine....
Other
The Family Farmer
The Family Farm explores the diverse agricultural pursuits of farm families, and serves as a window into the small-scale food production process that modern day consumers have become estranged from.
US Department of Agriculture
Usda: New Farmers Website
Discover step-by-step resources and community connections when deciding to start to farm.
Unite for Literacy
Unite for Literacy: Community: Farm Tractors at Work
Learn about all the jobs that a tractor does on a farm. Includes audio narration in 6 additional languages with text in English.
Other
Old House Web: Common Types of American Barns
Historic barn types like the Dutch Barns, Bank Barns, Crib Barns, Round Barns, and Prairie Barns, are described here as well as how to maintain, repair and preserve barns.
Virginia Tech
4 H: Virtual Farm
Click through a virtual farm and learn about horse farms, aquaculture, cattle farms, and other kinds of farms by reading and watching videos.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian National Zoo: Kids' Farm
Take a virtual tour of the Kids' Farm at the National Zoological Park. Read about the animals and how to take care of them. You can even learn to grow your own pizza garden.
Other
K 3 Learning Pages: Web Resources Farm
Come and check out this awesome farm resource site. Students and teachers will benefit from this compilation of materials.
Other
Teaching heart.net: Down on the Teaching Farm
Come and check out this comprehensive teaching resource for farms. Students and teachers will benefit from the activities and book found within this site.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian National Zoo: Zoogoer Magazine: Farming, From Ancient to Zoo
While this article by Shannon Lyons and Emily Huhn uses the New Kids' Farm exhibit at the National Zoo as a topic springboard, the information on farming and farming history is interesting and informative.
Other
Soil and Health Library: Dry Farming
This is the text of the 1920 book "Dry-Farming: A System of Agriculture For Countries Under Low Rainfall," by John A. Widtsoe. For a basic understanding of dry-farming, read just the first chapter, "Dry-Farming Defined." For a complete...
Read Works
Read Works: Magic Tomatoes
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a boy named Luke who lives on a farm. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Read Works
Read Works: Farmers Farm
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about the rights of a farmer and of a home-owner who lives near a farm. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Habitat Network: On a Farm
Learn about the effect that agricultural advancement has had on bird diversity in those environments.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Farmer's Dilemma
In this video from Wide Angle, learn about the new challenges the farmers of Ireland are facing amidst the country's economic boom.
abcteach
Abcteach: Farm Resources
[Free Registration/Login Required] This site provides several links to elementary information about farm resources for your classroom. You will find a venn diagram activity, a bar graph activity, a word search and more.
NASA
Nasa: Climate Kids: Farmer's Market Manager
Read a conversation with Jaret Foster, a farmer who manages his local fresh market, and find out why it is so important to support local farmers.
Teachnology
Teachnology: Farm Teaching Theme
Web quests, interactive sites, learning games, and many more resources offered will aid in learning about farms and farming.