FEATURES & DETAILS:
- Copyright: 2001
- Language: English, Spanish
- Color
- MARC records, Catalog Card Kit and Single Main Entry Cards are available
- Features: Chapter Select, Discussion Questions & Activities
- Technical: Single Layer, Single Sided, Full Screen
- DVD Region: ALL
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PRODUCT SUMMARY
Did you know rice is grown in fields that are covered with water? Or that earthworms can actually help plants grow healthy and strong? Young viewers will learn these facts and more in Growing Our Food. Children will enjoy following along with our young hosts as they learn about the many different places crops can be grown -- on trees, in fields, underground and even under water! Visits to a strawberry farm and an almond orchard give kids a close-up look at how these foods are grown and harvested. On each exciting field trip, children learn lots of fun and interesting facts about agriculture and its significance in our lives. Part of the multivolume Agriculture for Children DVD Series. A teacher's guide is included and available online.
EDITORIAL REVIEWS
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...Encouraging kids to think about where their food comes from and the hard work that goes into providing it, this is recommended.” " - Video Librarian (Nov/Dec 2006)"…fast paced…informative…nurtures scientific questioning, exploration, and curiosity." - Teacher Librarian (Dec 2006)
"...an excellent source of information...Recommended." - Library Media Connection (Feb 2007)
FULL REVIEWS
Video Librarian (November 2006)
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"Did you know that a single strawberry contains approximately 200 seeds? Viewers will learn this fun “farm fact” and more in this fast-paced introduction to how food is grown from the four-volume Agriculture for Children series. Growing Our Food visits various sorts of farms (pointing out that food is grown on trees, in fields, underground, and underwater), where youngsters will learn about what plants require to grow, as well as appropriate vocabulary (irrigation, plow, harvest, etc.). Viewers also meet Farmer Katie, a real-life cultivator of fruits and vegetables, find out the difference between soil and dirt, and watch a rice crop being sown. The other titles in the series are: What is Agriculture?, From Farm to Table, and Where Food is Grown. Encouraging kids to think about where their food comes from and the hard work that goes into providing it, this is recommended.