Title: ADOPT-A-CLASSROOM/FARM & CLASS VISIT
Author: Union County Farm Bureau
Grade Level: Primary - Intermediate
Description: Union County Farm Bureau has established an exciting student-farmer project called Adopt-a-Classroom where farmers talk with students in the classroom and on farm tours about how plants and animals are grown and what these products are made into. County Farm Bureau volunteers visit classrooms and talk with students about agriculture in Union County.

Title: AGRICULTURE'S NEW PROFESSIONALS
Author: National FFA Organization
Grade Level: Middle - Secondary
Description: VHS videotape presents seven people working in various careers in agriculture such as government, production, research, engineering, sales/service, and international marketing.

Title: THE AISLES HAVE IT
Author: Dairy Council of Wisconsin
Grade Level: Middle - Secondary
Description: Making wise consumer choices at the grocery store is the focus of these activities and 14 minute videotape. Unit pricing, food labels, and critical thinking skills are the focus. Reference information and hands-on student activities also included.

Title: ANIMALS ON THE FARM
Author: National Geographic
Grade Level: Primary - Intermediate
Description:  This film depicts familiar farm animals along with the farm families who raise them: dairy and beef cattle, pigs, sheep, turkeys, and chickens. Their physical appearance and other characteristics, their shelter and food, and the products that are derived from them are stressed. Students observe the image of unborn piglets on the screen of an ultrasound machine, witness the birth of a chick, and join the farm children as they bottle-feed the calves. They watch the milking of cows, the shearing of sheep, and the egg-producing process from laying to packaging. Finally, they join shoppers at a supermarket where they are challenged to guess the sources of dairy, meat, and egg products. Contains learning objectives and activities. Very popular!

Title: ANIMAL AGRICULTURE: MYTHS & FACTS
Author: Animal Industry Foundation
Grade Level: Intermediate - Middle
Description: Using AIF public research results which show the farmer/rancher in the most credible spokesperson for animal agriculture, AIF has produced an 18-minute video wherein farmers and ranchers walk audiences through their farms/ranches while explaining what they do, how they do it, the benefits of humane animal care, and how they feel when accused of producing an unsafe food product.

Title: BODY CULTURE
Author: National Live Stock and Meat Board
Grade Level: Secondary
Description: This video, coaches' guide, and reproducible masters teaches high school athletes about the connection between a nutritious diet and peak athletic performance. Students learn the foods needed for a proper training diet and pre-competition meals and the need for selecting nutritious snacks.

Title: THE BRAIN DRAIN
Author: Illinois Farm Bureau
Grade Level: Middle - Secondary
Description: This science fiction spoof, featuring "Agribusiness Aliens," promotes career opportunities in agriculture. It contains some interviews with agribusiness people.

Title: THE BREAD & BUTTER OF OUR FOOD SUPPLY
Author: Gerlach Productions
Grade Level: Intermediate - Secondary
Description: This video presents an overview of farming in Pulaski County and points out the impact of agriculture on the local economy. The following farm producers are interviewed: dairy cattle, beef cattle, grain, apple grower/farmer's market, vegetable. The farm products are then presented to consumers in the grocery store.

Title: A CALF GROWS UP
Author: Perceptions, Inc.
Grade Level: All
Description: This 35 minute VHS videotape and teachers's guide interweaves science, history, technology, careers, and economics as it tells the story of dairy farms, families, foods, cows, and calves. It refers to presentation of farms and rural landscapes.

Title: CAREFUL COUNTRY
Author: Indiana Ag in the Classroom
Grade Level:  Primary
Description: In the 18 minute video and coloring/activity books, various farm hazards have been depicted so that children can have fun and learn while watching the video or coloring.

Title: CLASSROOM GARDENING
Author:  National Gardening Association
Grade Level: Primary - Secondary
Description: Introductory 35 minute video to present the basics of successful classroom gardening. Use with the GrowLab programs. Includes discussions of seeds, seedlings, transplanting and the requirements of light, moisture, and nutrients required for plant growth.

Title: DIGGING FOR DATA
Author: National Live Stock and Meat Board
Grade Level: Intermediate - Middle
Description:  Teaches the student about the "scientific method" while examining an archeological dig and seeing how both genetics and agriculture (food availability) can affect the average height of a whole population.

Title: FABULOUS FOOD MACHINE
Author: Fresno County Farm Bureau
Grade Level: Primary - Intermediate
Description: Video uses familiar food products (McDonald's Big Mac, french fries, milk) to remind students that each of us is dependent upon the farmer's production of food for our daily needs. There are two themes presented: (1.) American farmers feed the world -- and that requires an efficient business; (2.) without this efficient agriculture system to produce abundant food and fiber, our choice of lifestyles and careers would be narrowed tremendously.

Title: FARM ANIMALS CLOSE UP AND VERY PERSONAL
Author: Stage Fright Productions
Grade Level:  Primary
Description: Introduces children to the variety of animals found on a farm. Structured in nine segments of individual animals. Cows chew their cud, pigs roll in the mud, and horses lick salt....the basic daily business of being a farm animal. For many students, visual media may be their only exposure to live farm animals. Recommended.

Title: FOODS: WHERE DO THEY COME FROM?
Author:  Marshfilm Enterprises, Inc.
Grade Level: Primary
Description: Contains 35mm filmstrip with audio cassette, teacher's guide. Teaches the sources of goods. Wheat is shown growing, being combined, and finally emerging as bread. Sources of various grains, vegetables, fruits, and dairy products are illustrated to help broaden the concept of natural foods.

Title: FRUIT- CLOSE UP AND VERY PERSONAL
Author: Stage Fright Productions
Grade Level: Primary
Description: This 30 minute video takes a closer look at colors, shapes, and names in this in-depth look at fruit. You'll meet members of six fruit families and kids will be encouraged to investigate this vital nutritional habit.

Title: GROWLAB - A GROWING EXPERIENCE
Author: Natural Gardening Association
Grade Level: Primary - Secondary
Description: Introductory video to be used with the GrowLab classroom gardening programs by the same company. Zippy 14 minute video featuring children working with the GrowLab program -- intended for teachers, PTA, school boards informational use.

Title: HISTORY MATTERS
Author: National Live Stock and Meat Board
Grade Level: Secondary
Description: Video and teacher guide. High school students can better understand the value of learning from the past to make decisions today through "History Matters." This video is based on the story of a high school student who is faced with a decision to spend his lifetime savings on a car or to use the money to help his mother and grandfather modernize the family farm.

Title: I KNOW WHAT I WANT
Author: Animal Industry Foundation
Grade Level:  Intermediate
Description: This video tool educates school children about U.S. agriculture. The video not only walks a fifth grader through livestock and poultry farms, showing urban students what farms actually look like, but shows the student the variety and depth of skills needed to be a successful producer of meat, milk and eggs.

Title: INSIDE/OUT
Author: State Farm Insurance
Grade Level: Primary - Intermediate
Description: Our health and safety are important to all of us and it's important we learn in life what factors influence our health. This package, Inside/ Out, was designed to help you teach your class about health and safety. This video and accompanying activities take a whole person approach to a well-being and suggest ways to explore, with students, the internal and external factors that influence our health.

Title: IT WORKS LIKE MAGIC
Author: Illinois Farm Bureau
Grade Level: Middle - Secondary
Description: Video explains the interdependence of farm and nonfarm people. Done in a light-hearted style, this "fractured fairy tale" features a talking raven, a greedy king, and a wizard who tell the story of how many people help get our food and fiber from the farm to the table.

Title: LEARNING BY LEAPS: AGRICULTURE AND YOU
Author: Illinois Farm Bureau
Grade Level: Primary - Intermediate
Description: 10-year-old girlfriends Sarah and Taylor complete their school homework assignment as they enjoy a busy Saturday. A friendly farmer and magical "leaps" onto a farm help them complete their school report on "Where Things We Use Everyday Come From." Classmates Davis and Jared provide some friendly competition. The students discover that AGRICULTURE is the source of products we eat, wear, use and need everyday. Join the students as they magically discover the wide variety of products made from corn, soybeans, hogs, sheep, beef cattle and dairy cows as well as the agriculture sources of their lunch. The video highlights agriculture as a source for renewable resources and focuses on agriculture's care for the environment and for animals. A look at career opportunities in agriculture completes the message.

Title: MAKE MINE MILK
Author: America's Dairy Farmers
Grade Level:  Primary - Intermediate
Description: This video teaches children where milk comes from, how it is transported and processed, and how milk contributes to a nutritious diet. This entertaining video integrates curriculum areas such as geography, science, and mathematics.

Title: PLANT A QUESTION
Author:  National Gardening Association
Grade Level: Primary - Secondary
Description: Video methods for teachers to use for preparing to instruct students in scientific methods related to gardening -- emphasizes inquiry-based learning.

Title: READY FOR SAFETY
Author: John Deere, Inc.
Grade Level: Primary
Description: Playing on a farm can be an exciting experience and a potentially dangerous one. In this educational video from John Deere, spokeschicken Ready Rooster teaches kids how to play safely around the farm.

Title: SCIENCE IN YOUR SHOPPING CART
Author:  U.S.D.A.
Grade Level:  Intermediate - Middle - Secondary
Description:  This 14 minute video and resource book details some of the many ways, both familiar and surprising that agricultural research touches and improves daily life in the United States.

Title: SHAPING A NATION
Author:  National Live Stock and Meat Board
Grade Level: Intermediate - Middle
Description: This video helps students gain an understanding of the role of agriculture in the development of our country and make economic concepts clearer through practical examples. By following the production process for a given product, students gain insight into farming as a business and into related economic principles.

Title: SO THAT'S WHERE OUR FOOD COMES FROM-BEEF, SHEEP, AND SWINE
Author: Lorain County, Ohio Farm Bureau
Grade Level: Intermediate
Description: Depicts the sources for meat in the ag industry.

Title: SO THAT'S WHERE OUR FOOD COMES FROM--DAIRY PRODUCTS
Author: Lorain County, Ohio Farm Bureau
Grade Level: Intermediate
Description: Depicts the source of milk and other dairy products.

Title: SO THAT'S WHERE OUR FOOD COMES FROM-GREENHOUSE AND NURSERY
Author: Lorain County, Ohio Farm Bureau
Grade Level: Intermediate
Description:  Depicts the growth and development of greenhouses and nurseries.

Title: SO THAT'S WHERE OUR FOOD COMES FROM-POTATOES AND APPLES
Author: Lorain County, Ohio Farm Bureau
Grade Level: Intermediate
Description: Depicts the foods associated with potatoes and apples.

Title: SUMMER ON THE FARM
Author:  Chris Fesko Enterprises
Grade Level:  Primary - Intermediate
Description:  Farm planting in the spring to harvest in the fall, this 28 minute video helps students see what life on the farm is like. Developed by a farmer, this video is the first in a series of three. Teacher's Guide, background information, and vocabulary listings included.

Title: SUMMER ON THE FARM 2: ANIMALS
Author:  Chris Fesko Enterprises
Grade Level:  Primary - Intermediate
Description:  Focusing on animals, this second video in a series of three, provides an insight into the farm life from the farmer's perspective. Included are dairy calf to cow, pigs, chickens, ducks, sheep, and horses. This resource has background information, hands-on student activities, evaluation component, and vocabulary listings.

Title: TRACTORS, COMBINES AND THINGS ON THE GROW
Author: Just Our Size Videos
Grade Level:  Primary - Intermediate
Description: From seed germination to ready to eat food, this 30 minute video depicts food production and processing. Focusing on grain production, the action takes children through an entire growing season.

Title: TRACTORS, COTTON-PICKERS AND THE STUFF KIDS WEAR
Author:  Just Our Size Videos
Grade Level: Primary - Intermediate
Description: From cotton to blue jeans, flax to linen, worms to silk, and sheep to sweater this video addresses natural fiber production by plants and animals.

Title: WHAT'S BUZZIN
Author: National Honey Board
Grade Level: Intermediate
Description: Videotape, teacher's guide, lesson plans, work sheet masters, poster. Explains the role of honeybees in the hive, the importance of beekeeping for pollination, and the steps in honey production.

Title:WHERE BEEF COMES FROM
Author: Indiana Farm Bureau, Inc.
Grade Level: Primary - Intermediate
Description: Contains 10-minute VHS video, teacher's guide, and activity pages. This video is designed to teach children the processes involved in producing beef for eating and for by-products. Dietary use of beef is also promoted, as well as showing how the industry uses the non-edible parts of beef for the consumer's benefit.

Title:WHERE MILK COMES FROM
Author: Indiana Farm Bureau, Inc.
Grade Level: Primary - Intermediate
Description:  Contains 15-minute VHS video and teacher's guide. This video is designed to familiarize students with the dairy products go through from the farm to the dinner table. The program also covers nutritional information about dairy products.

Title: WHERE PORK COMES FROM
Author: Indiana Farm Bureau
Grade Level: Primary - Intermediate
Description: This program incorporates a 9 minute video , teacher's guide, activities, and games for students to identify certain aspects of the pork industry. This video is the third in a series of educational tools, in the "farm to table" story.

Title: WHERE THE MILK COMES FROM
Author: TopView Productions
Grade Level: Primary
Description: It's summertime in Vermont. Come help harvest the crops, milk the cows, and have FUN! Come see the tractors, the dump trucks, the bucket loaders, the big and little farm animals, and the COWS, too, of course! You'll never eat milk, cheese, or ice cream again without thinking of our family and the farm in the thirty minute video.

Title: WINTER ON THE FARM
Author:  Chris Fesko Enterprises
Grade Level:  Primary - Intermediate
Description:  This third and final video in the series, focuses on veterinarian visits, milking, feeding calves, a farriers visit and sap collection for syrup making. A wide array of fun winter activities complete the action. Teacher's Guide included.

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