Workshop Highlights

Adams Elementary Crops in a Box Workshop

Crops in a Box Resources

• What is a Fruit? What is a Vegetable?
• Utah Agriculture Activity Map Poster
• Harvest of the Season
• Utah Specialty Crops
• Utah in a Box: Counties and Commodities

Apples

• A is for Apples (K-2)
• An Apple a Day Keeps the Doctor Away
• Apples by Gail Gibbons
• How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World by Marjorie Priceman
• The Apple Orchard Riddle by Margaret McNamara

Peaches

• Peaches: What's All the Fuzz About?
• Peach: How Does it Grow?

Tart Cherries

• The Tart Cherry on Top
• Tart Cherry Harvest and Processing in Utah
• Q and A - Cherries
• How to Make a Cherry Pie and See the U.S.A. by Marjorie Priceman

Pistachios

• Cracking Open the Story of Nuts

Pecans

• In a Nutshell
• Pecan: How Does it Grow?

Pumpkins

• Pumpkins…Not Just for Halloween
• The Case of the Missing Pumpkin (K-2)
• Pumpkins: How Does it Grow?
• How Many Seeds in a Pumpkin? By Margaret McNamara
• The Pumpkin Book by Gail Gibbons

Honey

• Honey Bees: A Pollination Simulation
• Honeybee Man by Lela Nargi and Krysten Brooker
• Honeybee by Candace Fleming

Tomatoes

• Who Grew My Soup (K-2)
• Who Grew My Soup? (3-5)
• Tomato: How Does it Grow?

Spinach

• Sylvia's Spinach by Katherine Pryor

Raspberries

• Raspberries: How Does it Grow?

Sweet Corn

• Three Sisters Garden
• Fields of Gold: How Sweet Corn Pollination Really Works
• Corn by Gail Gibbons

Apricot

Pear

Onions

Watermelons

Nutrition

• Understanding MyPlate (K-2)
• Understanding MyPlate (3-5)
• Food Models Kit
• Fill MyPlate Game
• MyPlate Activity Poster
• DairyWest Nutrition Resources
• How Did That Get in My Lunchbox? By Chris Butterworth
• What's for Lunch? by Andrea Curtis