Farms

Happy Farm

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In Happy Farm, players are to collect wooden pieces of pigs, chickens, and cows into families of two. The players throw a die to move across the board and collect animals; when they reach one of the two farmhouses, they may exchange the animals with each other.

Grade Level:

Primary

Content Area:

Math

Social Studies

Play Time:

15 min.

King Corn: You Are What You Eat (2006)

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Engrossing and eye-opening, KING CORN is a fun and crusading journey into the digestive tract of our fast-food nation. Fueled by curiosity and a dash of naiveté, college buddies Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis return to their ancestral home of Greene, Iowa, to find out how the modest corn kernel conquered America.

Grade Level:

High

Length:

01:30

The Beet Fields: Memories of a Sixteenth Summer (Unabridged)

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For a 16-year-old boy out in the world alone for the first time, every day is an education in the hard work and boredom of migrant labor; every day teaches him something more about friendship, or hunger, or profanity, or lust - always lust. He learns how a poker game, or hitching a ride, can turn deadly.

Author:

Gary Paulsen

Grade Level:

High

Lexile:

1070L

Length:

03:19

The Beet Fields: Memories of a Sixteenth Summer (Unabridged)

Clever Duck & The Swoose (Unabridged)

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CLEVER DUCK. Damaris the Duck has had enough of the farmyard pigs with their insults and pompous behaviour. So she sends them on a voyage of bruises, bellyaches and pignapping they won't forget...

Author:

Dick King-Smith

Grade Level:

Primary

Lexile:

NC870L

Length:

00:53

The Crowstarver (Unabridged)

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From the moment he's left as a foundling in a lambing-pen on Outoverdown Farm, Spider Sparrow is surrounded by animals. Adopted by the kindly shepherd and his wife, Spider comes to know all the farm creatures, including the crows he must scare away from the wheat. Every animal he meets trusts him, and Spider loves them all.

Author:

Dick King-Smith

Grade Level:

Middle

Length:

03:26

Ace (Unabridged)

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Farmer Tubbs takes a real shine to one particular pig, so much so that he can't bear to send him to market with the other young pigs. Soon Ace is befriended by the farmyard animals including Nanny the goat and Clarence, the cunning white cat. Together they help Ace to find his place in the farmhouse, ousting Megan, the farmer's aristocratic corgi, from her queenly seat - the best parlour char.

Author:

Dick King-Smith

Grade Level:

Elementary

Lexile:

850L

Length:

02:21

The Cow Who Clucked

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When a cow loses her moo, she searches to see if another animal in the barn has it.

Author:

Fleming, Denise

Grade Level:

Primary

Elementary

Length:

00:11

Food, Inc.: You'll Never Look at Dinner the Same Way Again (2008)

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Food, Inc. lifts the veil on the food industry, exposing how our food supply is now controlled by a handful of corporations that often put profit ahead of consumer health, the livelihood of the farmer, the safety of workers and our own environment. Food, Inc. reveals surprising - and often shocking - truths about what we eat, how it's produced and who we have become as a society.

Grade Level:

Middle

High

Length:

01:34