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Oklahoma Agriculture in the Classroom

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Agriculture-Related Books

Farm Machinery

The Gobble Gobble Mooooooo: Tractor Book
Alborough, Jez
Kane/Miller, 2010
Grades PreK-2
While Farmer Dougel is still asleep one morning, Sheep and his friends find the perfect opportunity to have fun with a tractor.
Cyrus McCormick and the Mechanical Reaper (American Business Leaders)
Aldrich, Lisa J.
Morgan Reynolds, 2002
Grades 3-6
Because of his dislike for fieldwork, especially harvesting grain, McCormick's life work was dedicated to developing a successful mechanical reaper, and, as a result, building a successful manufacturing empire. Black and white photos and period sketches with brief captions add to the text.
I Drive a Tractor (Working Wheels)
Bridges, Sarah
Picture Window, 2007
Grades PreK-2
Modern tractor technology, structure and operation, including tractor safety information, including a slow-moving tractor sign and what it signifies. Includes a vocabulary list.
Pioneer Plowmaker: A Story About John Deere
Collins, David R.
Hobar, 2001
Grades PreK-3
Farmers in the mid 1880s complained that the moist soil of the Midwest US stopped their plows by sticking to the blades. John Deere was a young blacksmith who figured out how to make a steel plow that could clean itself.
John Deere's Powerful Idea: The Perfect Plow
Collins, Terry
Picture Window Books, 2015
Grades 2-3
John Deere's farm equipment brand is famous around the world, but people may not know the story behind the man himself. Deere's humble blacksmith beginnings and a simple plow eventually led to massive success, but it wasn't' easy. The story behind the name will give readers new appreciation for the popular green tractors and equipment around today.
Farm Tractor
Doeden, Matt
Capstone, 2007
Grades PreK-2
Early readers will learn how tractors work and about tractor components, modern tractor technology, structure and operation.
Food and Clothing (History of Invention)
Gilpin, Daniel
Facts on File, 2004
Young Adult
Tools and Gadgets
Kalman, Bobbie
Crabtree, 1992
Grades 4-7
Learn how to identify mystifying gadgets used in the past by farmers, millers, woodworkers, metal workers, printers and doctors.
Mill
Macaulay, David
Graphia, 1989
Young Adult
Macaulay pays tribute to the historically important mills of 19th Century New England. Using close-up pen-and-ink illustrations, he thoroughly explains the Yankee ingenuity that went into the elaborate process of running machines that were generated by the flow of water. He also examines the importance of the mill to one community's economic and social viability.
The New Way Things Work
Macaulay, David
Houghton Mifflin, 1998
John Deere, That's Who!
Maurer, Tracy Nelson
Henry Holt and Co., 2017
Grades PreK-3
Back in the 1830s, who was a young blacksmith from Vermont, about to make his mark on American history? John Deere, that's who! Who moved to Illinois, where farmers were struggling to plow through the thick, rich soil they called gumbo? Who tinkered and tweaked and tested until he invented a steel plow that sliced into the prairie easy as you please? Long before the first tractor, who changed farming forever? John Deere, that's who! Beautiful illustrations—including spectacular landscapes—reflect the time period and bring John Deere's remarkable story to life.
Vehicles on the Farm
Peppas, Lynn
Crabtree, 2010
Grades PreK-3
Tour of the kinds of hardworking vehicles found on a farm. Uses images and text to introduce readers to combines, harvesters and other common farm vehicles.
Rainmakers: A Photographic Story of Center Pivots
Groundwater Foundation, 2005
Examines the history and complexity of center pivot irrigation through instructive and beautiful photographs and shows how the technology helps producers nourish our world.
Agricultural Drones
Rose, Simon
Capstone Press, 2017
Grades 3-5
Farm fields can span hundreds of acres. With so much area to cover, checking crops and livestock can be difficult. But with an agricultural drone, this job becomes much simpler. Young readers will discover how drones help farmers maximize efficiencies and bring abundant harvests.
Farmer Palmer's Wagon Ride
Steig, William
Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 1992
Grades PreK-3
A porcine farmer and his hired hand (a jackass) experience a series of farcical misadventures.