National Geographic
National Geographic: Staple Food Crops of the World
An interactive map identifying where many of the staple foods are grown around the world. In addition, find questions that can be answered based on review of the maps, fast facts about the crops, and terminology.
PBS
Frontline and Nova: Harvest of Fear
Review the risks, benefits, hopes, and fears associated with biotechnology and bioengineered food crops. Find in-depth interviews with genetic scientists, food industry representatives, farmers, and critics of biotechnology. Accompanying...
Other
Crop Life Canada
Covers a wide variety of issues from pestcide facts and history to food safety and human health. This organization is involved in all aspects of industry-wide education, communication, legislation, regulation to protecting Canada's...
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Other
Soil Association: Food for Life Curriculum Pack [Pdf]
A curriculum focusing on food production and consumerism.
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Iraqw
The Iraqw are an agrico-pastoral people who live in north-central Tanzania. With the expansion of their territory, the Iraqw have come to interact and coexist with other ethnic groups. Maize is the staple crop of the Iraqw; it is...
Read Works
Read Works: Finding Food
[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction passage discusses how obtaining food was challenging in the past. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes...
Other
Fruit From Washington: Crop Harvests at Home in America in World War Ii
This site is filled with posters from World War II, the Great Depression, and World War I which encouraged using food wisely, growing victory gardens, and helping harvest the crops on commercial farms.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Should We Grow Gm Crops?
Learn the pros and cons of genetically modified (GM) crops, and cast your vote on whether they should be grown. From the FRONTLINE/NOVA: Harvest of Fear Web site.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Education: From Old World to New World
Plants have migrated around the world just like people. This site explains how several African plants and food crops made their way into American life.
Unite for Literacy
Unite for Literacy: Plants and Food: Three Sisters Soup
Read about how the three sisters - beans, corn, and squash - act as companion plants to support each other's growth. Includes audio narration in English and Turkish with text in English.
Unite for Literacy
Unite for Literacy: Plants and Food: Fresh From the Farm
Read about some of the products we get from farms. Includes audio narration in English, Spanish, and Turkish with text in English.
PBS
Pbs Kids: Lunch Lab: Hectic Harvest Game
Learn how to run the farm by planting and caring for crops, but be fast or you will lose money.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Go Bananas: Fairtrade
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is the third in a series from Oxfam, and broadens the issues out from bananas to other food crops that are subject to Fair Trade agreements. It encourages the pupils to debate the issues...
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Kipsigis
Kipsigis are the southernmost and most populous of the Kalenjin peoples of Kenya. The term "Kalenjin" (lit. "I say to you") was coined in radio broadcasts and at political rallies during the late colonial period, at a time when political...
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Betsileo
The Betsileo (Bts) are one of approximately twenty "ethnies," or ethnic units, into which Madagascar divides its population. The Betsileo began to use that term for themselves after their conquest by the Merina in the nineteenth century....
Other
Successful Farming: Agriculture Online
From Successful Farming magazine, this site presents agriculture news and features for people who are professionals and those studying agriculture. Links to valuable, up-to-date information on topics such as crop news and weather patterns.
Other
Sussex Archaeological Society: Romans in Sussex: Countryside Living and Working
Provides details about how agriculture was practiced in England during the Roman period, how people lived on the farms and what crops they raised.
Other
Agri Food Trade Service: Agriculture, Food and Beverage Industry Tipsheets
Here's a collection of "fact sheets" offering details on Canada's various industries: Brewery, Dairy, Distillery, Fish and Seafood, Egg, Fruit, Grains and Oilseeds, Honey, Poultry, Red Meat, and more.
Northern Arizona University
Land Use History of North America: Prehistoric Farming on the Colorado Plateau
This is an overview of the Anasazi agricultural developments -- despite unfavorable environmental conditions -- which allowed for the formation of settlements and food sharing.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Edible Alabama and Her Agricultural Resources
This is a great culminating activity after a unit study on the natural resources of the state of Alabama. Learners will investigate some of Alabama's agricultural resources and create a multimedia presentation about one of them or recipe...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Life Science: Biotechnology in Agriculture
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] The majority of the corn in the United States is genetically engineered. Corn syrup is used to sweeten many things, like Coke. Corn is also fed to the cows. Learn...
Other
Ag Web: Agricultural Information, Tools, and Service
AgWeb.com provides the latest news in agriculture, as well as weather and market information, helpful agricultural tools, and more.
The Newberry Library
Frontier to Heartland: Join the Women's Land Army
See a recruitment poster encouraging women to join the Women's Land Army to help work the land and harvest crops in World War II.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Go Bananas: Introduction to Bananas
[Free Registration/Login Required] The aims of this flipchart are to introduce the banana as a 'product' and 'crop' - not just as food. It can support a single lesson, or be part of a series of lessons about fair trade and food production.