Curated OER
Vegetable Twister
Learners review vegetables and their nutrient values and production. In this vegetable production worksheet, students read information about the nutrients in vegetables and how they are grown. Learners participate in a game of Twister to...
Curated OER
Home: The Story of Maine
Students identify at least 10 foods that are important to Maine's economy and culture. They participate in a scavenger hunt as they find their way around a grocery store.
Curated OER
Explorit's Foodplant Quiz
In this plants worksheet, students complete a five question multiple choice on-line interactive quiz about plants grown for food.
Curated OER
Science in Your Shopping Cart
Students research the use of science in food production in the United States. In this science and food lesson, students visit a specific website to learn about the science used in various food products for United States consumption.
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: Mr. Sweet Potatoes
A scanned copy of the 1899 publication Mr. Sweet Potatoes, a fiction book for children.
Precision Nutrition
Encyclopedia of Food: Sweet Potato
A sweet potato, often on the table around the winter holidays, is loaded with nutritional value. Find out how to select a good tuber as well as ideas of how to prepare the sweet starch.
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Do Potatoes Regulate the Formation of New Roots?
Propagate potatoes by giving it the right environment for the eyes to sprout.
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Iraqw
The Iraqw are an agrico-pastoral people who live in north-central Tanzania. With the expansion of their territory, the Iraqw have come to interact and coexist with other ethnic groups. Maize is the staple crop of the Iraqw; it is...
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Akan
The Akan comprise a cluster of peoples living in southern and central Ghana and in southeastern Ivory Coast. They form a series of distinct kingdoms and share a common language, known as Twi, which has many dialects. Twi is a tonal...
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Luba of Shaba
The patrilineal Luba of Shaba differ in their descent system from the Eastern Luba by their culture and language, they are distinct from the Western Luba. Most live in southern Zaire. The Luba practice slash-and-burn agriculture; fields...
Language Guide
Language Guide: Los Vegetales
Colorful pictures and audio files model correct Spanish pronunciation for vegetables. Pop-ups of the correct spelling for each new vocabulary word will appear as you move the mouse over the picture.
Language Guide
Language Guide: Los Vegetales
Colorful pictures and audio files model correct Spanish pronunciation for vegetables. Pop-ups of the correct spelling for each new vocabulary word will appear as you move the mouse over the picture.
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Kikuyu
The Kikuyu, a major ethnic group of Kenya, numbered about 4.4 million in 1987, accounting for about 20 percent of Kenya's population of 25 million.The Kikuyu were originally hunter-gatherers, but they gradually adopted horticultural...
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Ganda
The Ganda are a group of people who live in the province of Buganda in Uganda. The Ganda are primarily an agricultural society; their staple crops are bananas and yams. Cotton was introduced as a market crop early in the twentieth...
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Inventor of the Week: George Washington Carver
This brief article from MIT Invention Dimension on George Washington Carver (1865-1943 CE) provides an overview of his education and his inventions, which influenced the world of agriculture.
University of Illinois
University of Illinois Extension: Food for Thought: Vegetable Group
Here, you can read up on the nutritional values of vegetables and on various ways to prepare vegetables to "Help your child enjoy," eating them. Also, get children eager to eat their vegetables by involving them in the kitchen and food...
National Inventors Hall of Fame
National Inventors Hall of Fame: George Washington Carver
This National Inventors Hall of Fame site provides a brief biography of the agricultural chemist, George Washington Carver.
Other
Black Inventor Online Museum: George Washington Carver
BlackInventor.com profiles George Washington Carver, inventor, teacher, and scientist whose discoveries greatly changed American agriculture.