The Foundation is continuously working on agricultural literacy projects to help tell the story of agriculture. To order any of these items or to see all of the educational items the Foundation offers click on “Resource Orders” on the menu.

Here are a few of our newest projects:

Pigs & Pork in the Story of Agriculture
This fun and colorful book introduces elementary students to the five stages of pigs and pork as they make their way from farm to table. Each stage is explained in a separate chapter and each chapter is color coded. This series of books presents easy-to-read text blocks, illustrated with photos and captions. Important facts about pigs and pork are highlighted in tinted boxes to reinforce their importance. The book includes extra pig and pork activities.

Pigs an A-Z Book
This colorful easy to read book is best for PreK or Kindergarten. The book introduces students to pigs and pork while they learn their ABCs. Each letter has a word about pigs beginning with that letter. The book also includes pictures and information to help students understand each agriculturally related word.

Pigs & Pork in the Story of Agriculture – Educator’s Guide
For 3rd -6th grade: Activities will help students identify the five sub-concepts of pigs and pork in agriculture: production, processing, distribution, marketing, and consumerism. After using this resource students should be able to read for understanding, inquire into the science and technology surrounding pork industry, understand places and regions in the United States and interpret social and mathematical problems.

Apple Ag Mag
The Apple Ag Mag is a 4 page multidisciplinary magazine for grades 3-5. It contains information about apple production, history, growth, myth, and varieties. The Ag Mag also includes classroom activities such as make an Apple Life Cycle Chain, and experiments such as Sugar vs. Starch. On the back page it explores apple related careers.

Corn Ag Mag
Is an educational magazine for students grades 3-5. It looks at corn’s diversity of products and varieties. It also explores corn as an export, a renewable resource and for use as a fuel and bioplastic. The Corn Ag Mag includes fun classroom activities and corn experiments. On the back of the Ag Mag is a Career Corner looking at agricultural careers in the corn industry. To order click “Resource Orders” on the left menu.

Pizza Ag Mag
The new Pizza Ag Mag is an agricultural magazine for kids third to fifth grade that 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: crust, sauce, cheese, peppers, tomatoes, onions mushrooms, pepperoni and sausage. It also includes: pizza history timeline, fabulous fractions lesson, pizza probability activity, science experiments and career profiles in pizza professions!

Book of the Year: Soybeans in the Story of Agriculture
The Foundation presented its Book of the Year Award for 2010 to Mrs. Susan Anderson and Dr. JoAnne Buggey for their book Soybeans in the Story of Agriculture. This wonderful children’s book introduces students to five stages of soybeans as they make their way from farm to table.

Each stage is explained in a separate chapter and each chapter is color coded. This book presents easy-to-read text blocks, illustrated with photos and captions. Important facts about soybeans are highlighted in tinted boxes to reinforce their importance. The book also includes soybean activities.

Soybeans an A to Z Book
This elementary version of Soybeans in the Story of Agriculture introduces young readers to agriculture by providing basic information on soybeans while teaching them their alphabet. Young readers learn where soybeans come from, how they are used and their relationship to the food, fiber, the environment and renewable fuel made from soybeans.

Soybeans an A-Z Educator’s Guide
For Prek-K classrooms with activities which teach science, nutrition, mathematics, reading/ language arts and physical activity. Activities include: Reading and basic shapes identification, Become a Bean Counter – Math and number writing, Cool Beans – Colors and Plant Parts and Get Up and Get Growing - Physical exercise and seed germination - Use fingers, hands, arms, legs and feet to act out what a soybean seed/plant needs to grow. To order click Resource orders on the left menu.

Soybeans in the Story of Agriculture – Educator Guide
For 3rd -6th grade it covers: Reading/Language arts, Science, Social Science and Creative Arts. At the end of the lesson students will be able to: identify the five sub-concepts of agriculture (production, processing, distribution, marketing, and consumerism), and identify characteristics of organisms, life cycles of organisms, organisms and environments. Construct a soybean life cycle chain.

Soybeans in the Story of Agriculture – Educator’s Bundle
The Foundation has developed lesson plans and an educator bundle which includes a classroom set of the new AFBFA Soybean Ag Mags. The Soybean Ag Mags are 4-page, colorful agricultural magazines for kids to accompany the Soybeans in the Story of Agriculture book.

Busy Barnyard Video

Busy Barnyard
The Foundation’s Busy Barnyard Lesson Plan goes along with John Schindel’s book Busy Barnyard or any other simple book on farm animals. This fun, colorful and interactive lesson plan is a great way to introduce younger children to farm animals! The lesson plan comes with three different activities: Farm Animal Names and Sounds, Farm Animal Parade, and Proper Animal Names. The lesson plan also includes a CD/DVD with the lesson plan, farm animal parade pictures and a short video about the lesson plan. Click on the video to see some of the activities.

Food & Farm Facts
A 32-page book with poster. Charts/graphs with facts about today’s agriculture: food costs, consumption and safety; ag terminology; and historical highlights. America’s Bounty poster shows production areas including the commodity belts (corn, cotton, soybeans, rice, etc.). Great for educational programs and community outreach events. Also available are an instructor's guide, lesson plans, CD-ROMs, and even pencils!

The Man Who Fed the World
Leon Hesser’s The Man Who Fed the World is an amazing biography that engages the reader in the story of Norman Borlaug, a Nobel Peace prize winner, who saved hundreds of millions of lives from starvation. Share this spectacular and inspiring book and help tell the story of agriculture. Buy a copy for state or national legislators, ag reporters, local or school libraries, ag teachers, government officials, teachers and friends.