With each Flat Aggie report, I’ll be putting together a list additional resources, websites, recipes, books, and activities. Use this and farmer math from A Kansas Farm Mom to bring Flat Aggie’s Agmazing Adventures to life!
Use with Flat Aggie Visits a Sweet Potato Farm.
Classroom Activities & Resources
From North Carolina Sweet Potatoes Commission: Sweet Potatoes in the Classroom
From Oklahoma Ag in the Classroom: All About Potatoes
From Louisiana Ag in the Classroom: A Sweet Potato Fact Sheet (scroll down to sweet potatoes)
From Kids’ Activities Blog: Growing Potatoes
From Science Kids: Potato Facts & Activities
Books
- Potatoes, Potatoes by Anita Lobel
- From Eye to Potato (Scholastic News Nonfiction Readers: How Things Grow) by Ellen Weiss
- The Enormous Potato by Aubrey Davis
- Pigs Love Potatoes by Anika Denise and Christopher Denise
- One Potato, Two Potato by Cynthia C. DeFelice and Andrea U’Ren
Web Resources
From YouTube
- Potato Farm Grows Tons of Spuds in Middle Georgia
- Christensen Family Farms: Idaho Potato Harvest 2012 (a great video of potato harvest shot with a drone. NOTE this video is set to the music “She Thinks My Tractor’s Sexy”. )
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