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Additional Links for All The Places to Love

Farm Life

http://www.proteacher.com/090006.shtml

http://edtech.kennesaw.edu/web/farmanim.html

http://www.kiddyhouse.com/Farm/farmwsheets.html

http://www.eagle.ca/~matink/themes/Pioneers/farm.html

http://www.agday.org/tc/tc-farmlife.html

http://deila.dickinson.edu/patagonia/en/museum/family/farmlife.html

http://www.livinghistoryfarm.org/index.html (excellent resource to study farms through the ages)

http://www.picadome.fcps.net/lab/currl/farm/default.htm

http://www.themeunits.com/July_bk.html

http://library.thinkquest.org/TQ0312380/index.htm (excellent resource!)

http://www.ext.vt.edu/resources/4h/virtualfarm/main.html

http://www.agclassroom.org/teacher/lessons.htm

http://www.agclassroom.org/gan/timeline/index.htm (timeline of A History of American Agriculture)

http://www.usda.gov/news/usdakids/

http://www.kidsolr.com/science/page2a.html

http://www.kidsfarm.com/wheredo.htm

http://www.cyberspaceag.com/

http://www3.telus.net/public/cvaage/farming_in_alberta_for_children.htm

http://museum.agropolis.fr/english/default.htm

Printables for farm life study:

http://www.cyberspaceag.com/farmfun/printables/default.htm

http://www.cyberspaceag.com/kansasagriculture/dayinlife.htm

http://www3.telus.net/public/cvaage/machinery.htm

http://www3.telus.net/public/cvaage/activities.htm

http://www.abcteach.com/directory/theme_units/animals/farm_unit/

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/coloring/farm.shtml

Family History Helps:

http://www.genealogy.com/genealogy/67_taylor.html

http://www.familytreemagazine.com/articles/oct01/kids.html

http://www.genealogyspot.com/features/kids.htm

http://www.michigan.gov/som/0,1607,7-192-29939_32384-50174--,00.html

http://www.kidsturncentral.com/topics/hobbies/kidsgenealogy.htm

Farm Animal Links:

http://www.kidsfarm.com/farm.htm

http://www.kiddyhouse.com/Farm/

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/coloring/farm.shtml

http://www.alphabet-soup.net/farm/farmcolor.html

http://www.agr.state.nc.us/cyber/kidswrld/general/barnyard/barnyard.htm\

http://www.nps.gov/nace/oxhi/animals.htm

Farm Equipment Links for Research:

http://www.kidsfarm.com/equipment.htm

http://library.thinkquest.org/TQ0312380/machine.htm

http://www.leeogle.org/kings/crops_machines_tools.htm

http://waltonfeed.com/rahn/rahnfarm.html

http://www.michigan.gov/mda/0,1607,7-125-2961_2971-80304--,00.html

http://www.historylink101.com/lessons/farm-city/story-of-farming.htm

Check out these websites for planting:

http://www.kidsgardening.com/

http://www.raw-connections.com/garden/

http://gardeninglaunchpad.com/kids.html

Weather:

http://www.theteachersguide.com/Weather.html#General 

Seasons:

http://www2.pcc.com/staff/christin/farmproject/htm/page1.htm

(has a day in the life of a farmer, and what a farm is like through the seasons)

http://www.homeschoollearning.com/units/units_physical_seasons.shtml

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/themes/seasons.shtml

http://www.michigan.gov/scope/0,1607,7-155-10710_13476_13479-35714--,00.html

Buoyancy

For younger children, this will be a good website to help explain it, http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/lasalle/buoybasics.html

Here is a website with an experiment written for buoyancy, http://www.spartechsoftware.com/reeko/Experiments/floating.htm

Animal Tracks/Signs

http://espn.go.com/outdoors/conservation/s/h_fea_kids_track-hunting_wire.html

http://www.bear-tracker.com/ (a field guide for tracks…excellent!)

http://www.geocities.com./Yosemite/9152/wildlife.html

http://42explore.com/animaltracks.htm

http://ils.unc.edu/parkproject/kids/trax/home.html

Biomes

http://mbgnet.mobot.org/sets/ (excellent!)

http://www.cotf.edu/ete/modules/msese/earthsysflr/biomes.html

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Laboratory/Biome/ (fantastic for pictures to use for notebooks)

http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/glossary/gloss5/biome/

Similes

http://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/lit_terms/simile.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simile

http://knowgramming.com/metaphors/metaphor_and_simile_difference.htm

http://www.berghuis.co.nz/abiator/rdg/similehelp.html

http://www.graphic.org/similie.html

http://www.lovetolearnplace.com/Curriculum/Literary/simile.pdf

http://library.thinkquest.org/J0112392/simileclassics.html

http://www.teachervision.fen.com/page/5636.html

http://homepages.wmich.edu/~cooneys/tchg/lit/adv/metaphor.html

http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=608

Descriptive Writing

http://www.geocities.com/fifth_grade_tpes/descrip_write.html

http://wizard.hprtec.org/builder/worksheet.php3?ID=1309 (here are some prompts)

http://www.montanalife.com/writing/descriptive_writing_techniques.html

http://www.teachingideas.co.uk/english/descriptivewriting.htm

http://library.thinkquest.org/J001156/forms%20of%20writing/em_descriptive.htm

http://www.edhelper.com/ReadingComprehension_33_35.html

http://www.geocities.com/fifth_grade_tpes/snow_details_1.html

http://www.oswego.org/testprep/ela4/h/descriptivewritingblank.htm

http://www.hickman.k12.ca.us/cyberwriter/writingd_1.htm (great site to help you teach this to your younger students)
 

Counting

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/math/skipcounting/

http://www.lessonplanspage.com/MathPassThePaperGame-SkipCountingK4.htm

http://www.rblewis.net/technology/EDU506/WebQuests/skpcount/skpcount.html

http://www.justforkidsonly.com/mathskipcounting.htm

http://www.homeschoolmath.net/worksheets/number-charts.php

http://sln.fi.edu/pieces/knox/skipsong.htm

http://math.about.com/cs/arithmetic/a/timestables.htm

http://everydaymath.uchicago.edu/educators/calculatorskipcount.shtml

http://www.learningplanet.com/sam/cyc/index.asp

Quilting

http://surfaquarium.com/newsletter/quilt.htm

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/qlthtml/qlthome.html

http://www.thecraftstudio.com/qwc/

http://quilting.about.com/od/youngquilters/

http://quiltmaker.com/tips/tech2/

http://www.carolhurst.com/subjects/quilts.html

http://www.kathimitchell.com/quilt/quilt.html

http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=241

Wood Carving

http://www.lotzdollpages.com/lcrettip.html

http://www.russscott.com/~rscott/vwca/beginwood.htm

http://l.webring.com/hub?ring=woodcarving

http://www.geocities.com/Yosemite/Cabin/2094/webdoc5.html

http://bougie.servibec.net/carvinglesson.htm

http://www.carvingpatterns.com/intro.htm

http://www.svsu.edu/mfsm/educational/tourprogramSC.html

Farm Cooking

http://www.pathtofreedom.com/links/food&cooking/recipes.shtml

http://www.grassorganic.com/kitchen.html

http://www.brooklynpark.org/government/pdf/farmrecipes.pdf

http://www.foodtimeline.org/

Virtual Field Trips

Here are some virtual online field trips that would be nice to add to your study, and bring some more varied interest to it. This is very helpful for visual learners especially.

Tour of a 1920’s farmhouse:

http://www.uen.org/utahlink/tours/tourFames.cgi?tour_id=13051http://www.uen.org/utahlink/tours/tourFames.cgi?tour_id=13051

A tour of a pumpkin farm, and the things they make:

http://www.bottomleysevergreens.com/seethefarm.htm

The Farm Tour

http://www.msichicago.org/exhibit/farm/index.html

Chick Hatchery (see a chick hatch on video!)

http://www.msichicago.org/exhibit/chick/chick.html

Cranberry Bog Tour

http://www.oceanspray.ca/english/product/harvest.html

Sugar Cane Tour

http://www.scgc.org/xsteps.html

Maple sugar farm

http://www.lmsugarbush.com/pages/6/index.htm

Christmas Tree Farm

http://www.christmastrees.on.ca/vtfsite/vtfmain.html

Chocolate and how it’s grown

http://www.fieldmuseum.org/Chocolate/

4-H Virtual Farm

http://www.ext.vt.edu/resources/4h/virtualfarm/main.html

Dairy Farm

http://www.mda.state.mi.us/kids/pictures/dairy/index.html

http://www.moomilk.com/tours/tour1-1.htm

http://www.mda.state.mi.us/kids/pictures/rachel.html

Some farming videos of various things

http://www.mofb.org/webquest/wqclips.htm