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National Agricultural Literacy Curriculum Matrix

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The Story of Seeds The Story of Seeds

This nonfiction chapter book follows seeds from Mendel's garden to our plate. Discover how something as small as a seed can have a world-wide impact. From Iraq to India to an impenetrable seed vault in a Norwegian mountainside, this book speaks to the current ways we think about our food and how it is grown. Readers will discover just how important seeds are to the functioning of our global economy--and how much power we as a world-wide community have to keep seeds around, because once a seed disappears, it's gone forever. With both text and color photos, this book touches on subjects such as seed genetics, the development of new seed varieties, heirloom seeds, and GMO seeds. It also introduces readers to seed scientists such as Gregor Mendel, Luther Burbank, and Nikolai Vavilov.

Procedures

For additional teaching resources, access the Curriculum Guide provided by the author.

Author(s)

Nancy F. Castaldo

Lessons Associated with this Resource

  • Growing a Nation: Seeds of Change
  • Plant Propagation
  • Plants Around You (Grades 3-5)

 

Consider submitting a lesson or companion resource to the National Agricultural Literacy Curriculum Matrix.

National Agricultural Literacy Curriculum Matrix (2013) is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

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