North Dakota by Isabel and Cassie

Farm Safety by Matthew

Farms can be fun, but they're dangerous too.
  Kids who live on farms really need to know what it takes to be safe. They probably help out on the farm and need to know the safety rules that can prevent injuries.According to the National Safety Council, farming is one of America's most hazardous jobs. Kids ages 10 to 14 are at high risk for injury, often because they take on a job or task that they aren't ready to handle. If you are under 9 at a graeter risk of injuries from the tools. If you do work on a farm, listen to your parents . Be careful where you play and don't go out to work on the farm on your own. If you're helping out, don't try to use equipment. You have to  be properly trained. If there's a job you really want to do, such as driving a tractor, you'll probably have to wait until you get a little older.

Soils by Natalie and Mackenzie

North Dakota's state soil in William soil. There are Sandy soils in the west of North Dakota. There are more than 2.2 million acres of Wiliams soils in North Dakota. the Williams soil was an official soil in 1900.  William soils are on  of the most important soils in N.D. Soils are used to grow wheat, barley,oats, flax and sunflowers. North Dakota farmers protect the soils by utilizing it.                                                                                      

Farm Safety by Mattew and Ryan

Farms are fun places. There is all that sunshine, fresh air, and lots of room to run around.But on farms, you'll see they're also places where work gets done. Some of that work involves equipment that can be dangerous if someone doesn't know how to be safe.     
  Kids who live on farms really need to know what it takes to be safe. They probably help out on the farm and need to know the safety rules that can prevent injuries.According to the National Safety Council, farming is one of America's most hazardous jobs.Kids ages 10 to 14 are at high risk for injury, often because they take on a job or task that they aren't ready to handle.

   Be careful where you play and don't go out to work on the farm on your own. If you're helping out, don't try to use equipment or tackle big projects if you haven't been properly trained. If there's a job you really want to do, such as driving a tractor, you'll probably have to wait until you get a little older.

Popcorn By: Haley, Isabel, and Adam

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Over 6,000 years ago, in a bat cave, Indians popped popcorn.  Know as Peru,  archaeologists, found kernals that were ready to pop.  French explorers saw Iroquois people use popcorn in soup.The  first commercial pop corn machine was inveted in 1885.  Popcorn is world's favorite snack.

Rain Forests By Natalie and Mackenzie

There are many things every day that you see that come from the Rain forest. Tropical Rain forest are full of natural resources. Your eraser is made out of a rubber tree in the rain forest. Spices come for the rain forest. You can also will enjoy  these flavors
vanilla, cinnamon, ginger, and cocoa. These flavors come from the rainforest.

 There is a tree that makes gum. Many plants in the rain forest cure diseases, they are called medical plants. 

 Many rainforests are cutting down trees for timber, mining of minerals and coal, road construction, and to make room for cattle. The rain forests are shrinking every day. Rain forests contain more than 1/2 of the animals and species.  We are losing 137 animals, plants and insects due to destruction.

 The rain forests are over 1 billion acres. more than 20% of the worlds oxygen comes from the Amazon Rain forest. Rainforests get up to nine feet of rain each year.

.http://www.rainforest-alliance.org/education.cfm?id=kidsmain
http://www.teachervision.fen.com/rain-forest-ecology/resource/3417.html

Chocolate Chip Cookies by August

Sugar is made from sugar beets, and sugar beets come from the ground. Butter is made from cream and salt. Cream is made from a cows milk.   Eggs come from chickens. Vanilla extract is made from vanilla beans. Jello pudding is often in cookies. This is mostly sugar from sugar beets. Salt comes from under the ground in rock form.  Chocolate chips come from cocoa beans, sugar, and vanilla.  Baking soda is artificial. And that's where you really get  chocolate chip cookies from.

Chocolate Chip Cookies...More Than You Think by Cassie

A cookie is not just a cookie.
There is brown sugar from sugar beets, white sugar from sugar beets. Shortening which is a solid white fat product made from vegetable oils using the technique know as hydrogenation.  The eggs you use come from chickens, and the vanilla comes from a vanilla plant. The flour is from wheat.  The baking soda is a chemical salt. The cream of tartar is a natural pure ingredient left behind after grape juice has fermented to wine.  The chocolate chips come from cocoa, and the walnuts are from a tree.

Staying Healthy by I and I

The Dust Bowl by Adam and Andrew

How Do You Grow A Pizza by Isabel

What's In A Chocolate Chip Cookie by Isabel and Isaac

Flour comes from wheat for cookie dough.

Sugar comes from a sugar beet, also in the dough.

Vanilla comes from a vanilla bean, for flavoring in your cookie.

The chocolate chips come from a cocoa bean from a tree

called a cacao tree.

Butter is made from the milk of a cow, 

and the baking soda is made artificially. 

Soil by Andy C. and Adam

Crops by Joe M. and Isaac

North Dakota has 30,300 family farms and ranches.
The average North Dakota farms is 1,300 acres.
  North Dakota is 68,976 square miles in area with an average
of 9.3 people per square.

The Water Cycle By: Haley

http://kids.earth.nasa.gov/games/

Water is very important to farmers. It helps crops grow and is there for the farmer's cattle.

Here is how the water cycle works:

Condensation, Evaporation, and Precipitation. 

Where does this water come from? The oceans, lakes, and rivers.   The tributaries of the rivers will  join the stream and then the river can pick up speed.  Moving and moving down the steep land, white river rapids are formed.  Rivers have a source,  this is where the river starts.  It carves valleys and canyons apart.  Wider and deeper and in the sea it opens it's mouth. The mouth is the end of the river.  Through mud and through sand the river goes into the ocean.  In the big blue ocean, all the water becomes one. This water, H20, helps our farms grow and grow. 

Agriculture In North Dakota by Brayden and Andrew N.

Agriculture by Jack Mehus

Agriculture is very important to our Earth. One kinds of agriculture is:

farming. In farming you grow crops.

North Dakota farmers produce annually 15.5 billion loaves of bread from wheat, 212 billion crayons from soybeans, 171 million servings of french fries from potatoes, and 8.5 billion servings of spaghetti, 726 bags of sunflower seeds, 103 hamburgers, 421,500 sweaters from wool, 894 glasses of milk, 4.1 milion pork chops, and 27 billion gallons of Kool-Aid, Alfalfa to feed 529,000 cows, corn to produce 770 million gallons of ethanol, and canola to fill the North Dakota State Capitol tower more than 16 times. I hope you liked learning about agriculture.                                                                                                                 

Farmers Help Us Stay Healthy by Isabel and Isaac

Challenges In Agriculture by Daniel

There are many challenges in agriculture. Some of these challenges would include, hail, toronadoes, and animals eating crops.

Hail is rain but due to the temps, it is cold and it begins to become a solid. It starts out as water vapor. Eventually the rain becomes a solid. Hail can do many bad things to many different people.

Toronadoes are another aspect that affects farming. Toronadoe's winds can spin up to 300 mi. per hour. Tornadoes are strong winds that spin around in circles and reach up to the sky. Tornadoes are caused when there is a quick change in temperature. tornadoes can pick items off the ground.  These storms can be devistating for farmers.

Some animals can a big problem in agriculture also. Deer eat the plants. Cattle eat and step on the plants. Birds eat the seeds of the plant and this causes less growth of the plant and loss of seeds.

As you can see, there are many things that can damage agriculture. Many things in nature affect farmers' lives.

  Despite all of these difficulties, farming is very interesting and rewarding.  Farmers grow the crops and livestock that feed the world.

Healty Foods by Natalie and Mackenzie

Fruits and Vegetables by Brayden, Isaac, and Jacob

Fruits and vegetables help your body stay strong. There are many fruits and vegetables.  You should have 5 servings of these everyday. Eating these foods will keep you healthy. Some grow on trees. Oranges and apples grow on trees. Some grow on the ground. Some are actually the root themselves, like carrots and beets.  Fruits and vegetables are a healthy
snack. You should have fruits and vegetables, because they are high in
vitamins and minerals. Some Fruit and vegetables are big and some are small. Apples are one of the most common fruits. They have a lot of fiber in them . So do pears.  Oranges are good for you
when you are sick. So is orange juice.  These are great foods for a healthy body.