Unite for Literacy
Unite for Literacy: Plants and Food: Fresh From the Farm
Read about some of the products we get from farms. Includes audio narration in English, Spanish, and Turkish with text in English.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: City Farm
Players learn about sustainable practices by growing crops, protecting them against unforeseen problems, and determining how best to conserve resources in this interactive game.
Northern Arizona University
Land Use History of North America: Prehistoric Farming on the Colorado Plateau
This is an overview of the Anasazi agricultural developments -- despite unfavorable environmental conditions -- which allowed for the formation of settlements and food sharing.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: The Real Dirt on Farmer John: Family Farms in America
Trace the evolution in American agriculture with this interactive timeline. Learn how the history of one small Illinois farm reflects the larger changes, decade by decade.
Other
Fruit From Washington: Crop Harvests at Home in America in World War Ii
This site is filled with posters from World War II, the Great Depression, and World War I which encouraged using food wisely, growing victory gardens, and helping harvest the crops on commercial farms.
Wessels Living History Farm
Wessels: Farming in the 1920s: 1920s World Events
Find a list of events in many categories that occurred in the 1920s.
Other
The Progressive Farmer
Progressive Farmer delivers the latest news in the agriculture industry: Crop and livestock production, new technology and products, business and financial information, weather, markets and government regulations.
Curated OER
Bureau of Land Management: Anasazi Heritage Center: Who Were the Anasazi?
A question-and-answer site giving information about the Anasazi, an ancestral Pueblo people. There is a discussion of their languages, farming methods, architecture, and use of astronomy.
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Dust Busters: How No Plow Farmers Try to Save Our Soil
In this environmental science fair project, students will build models of fields prepared by plow-based and no-till methods, and see which ones are best at retaining soil moisture and preventing surface runoff.
Agriculture in the Classroom
Natl Agriculture in the Classroom: A Look at North Carolina Agriculture [Pdf]
Learn about the agricultural industry in North Carolina. Find bulleted facts on the climate of North Carolina, its soil, farm animals, and crop production. PDF (requires Adobe Reader).
Biotechnology Institute
Biotechnology Institute: Your World: A World of Change [Pdf]
The introduction of genetically modified organisms (animals, microbes, and plants) into agriculture has been accompanied by controversies over their potential impact on human health, the environment, and farming systems. Management of...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Declining Profits
In this video from Wide Angle, learn about the farmers of Vidarbha in central India who have seen a loss in profits due to the high cost of borrowing money and the low prices for their crops in a globalized market.
Davidson College
Alternatives to Herbicides
This informative site discusses the use of organic farming, microorganisms, goats, and herbicide resistant crops as an alternative to the use of herbicides to control weeds.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Farm Life
[Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson is designed to be an introductory lesson for students learning about farms, animals and activities conducted as part of every day life on a farm. Built in Activprimary, this lesson is...
Curated OER
Wikipedia: Natl Historic Landmarks in South Carolina: Coker Experimental Farms
Site of crop-improvement experiments that "played a great role in the agricultural revolution of the South".
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: George Washington Carver: Scientist, Inventor, and Teacher
By doing two primary source activities and watching a short video, students will explore the life of science and innovation led by George Washington Carver.
Digital History
Digital History: Early Industrialization
Advances in technology affected manufacturing in the North and farming in the South. Read about how America turned from a country where most products were made in the home to an economic power that used factory production.
Other
Sussex Archaeological Society: Romans in Sussex: Countryside Living and Working
Provides details about how agriculture was practiced in England during the Roman period, how people lived on the farms and what crops they raised.
American Association for the Advancement of Science
American Association for Advancement of Science: The Slow Birth of Agriculture
An article which describes the slow process of crop cultivation. The author argues that crop cultivation and village life may not have been connected.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Native American Culture of the Northeast
Hopewellian culture dominated the Northeast region from 200 BCE to 500 CE, where Native American groups began large-scale three-sister farming. Read more about these tribes and find out why many historians argue that the Iroquois League...
Agriculture in the Classroom
National Agriculture in the Classroom: A Look at Arizona Agriculture [Pdf]
Use this site to learn about the agricultural industry in Arizona. Find bulleted facts on the Arizona climate, soil characteristics, crops grown, and animals raised.
Digital History
Digital History: The African American as Sharecropper [Pdf]
After reading about the system of sharecropping or tenant farming for the African American in the South, look at poverty statistics for African Americans vs. whites between 1960 and 1990. Is there a corelation between the sharecropping...
Other
Ag Web: Agricultural Information, Tools, and Service
AgWeb.com provides the latest news in agriculture, as well as weather and market information, helpful agricultural tools, and more.
Texas State Historical Association
Texas State Historical Association: Texas Almanac: State of Texas Agriculture
Find out about the changes in Texas state agricultural industry over the past fifty years.