Workshop Highlights

The Geography of Agriculture: Food, Land & People

Resource Packet

• Teacher Resource Center
• Agriculture…Where Does it Fit?
• AgroWorld online newsletter
• Global Food System Maps
• United States Map (nationalatlas.gov)
• Utah Map (nationalatlas.gov)
• Utah Agriculture Activity Map
• World Hunger Map
• Farm Facts
• Sphere of Influence

Geography & World Civilizations

• If the World Were a Village
• The Apple as the Earth Animation
  • Tootsie Rolls & Conservation
• Understanding:
  • The Columbian Exchange Through Old World and New World Foods
  • Fabric Maps with crop samples
• World Civilization (PowerPoint)
• Guns, Germs, and Steel
• Geography and Agriculture: Feeding the World (PowerPoint)
  • Time Photos: Hungry Planet
• Grains and Legumes of the World
• Loco for Cocoa

U.S. History

• Growing Today for Tomorrow
• Farming It's a Fact (PowerPoint)
• Growing a Nation: The Story of American Agriculture
• Growing a Nation (1600-1929): Seeds of Change
  • King Cotton
  • Order Cotton Bolls
• If the U.S. Were a Village
• From Boom to Dust

Utah History

• Changes and Challenges: A Century of Utah Agriculture
• At Home on the Range
• Google Earth on the Range
• SHEEP (DVD)
• Wool Spinning Activity