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• Illinois Department of Agriculture Kid's Page - Explains what happens on the farm and how food gets from the farm to the table.
  
• The Inside Scoop on Farms - Thinkquest site offering a look at dairy, livestock, and crop farms, as well as machinery. Includes a glossary and games.
  
• FarmNet - Features cartoons outline basic farm safety rules, a virtual field trip to some of Ireland's sheep farms, and a look at animal physiology and classification.
  
• Life on the Farm During the Depression - A man tells his story of growing up on an Illinois farm during the Depression era.
  
• CyberSpace Farm - A virtual look at Kansas farms from the experts who live and work there.
  
• MooMilk - Learn about cows, milk, and the dairy industry through fun facts, games, recipes, and a virtual tour.
  
• 4-H Virtual Farm - Online tours of wheat, dairy, fish, beef, and poultry farms.
  
• Virginia Apples - Lots of information on apples like recipes, activity sheets, and the story of Johnny Appleseed.
  
• Bean Files - Learn about the bean family by reading cartoon stories. Page also features songs, recipes, activities and quizzes.
  
• National Farmer's Union - Farming Fun - For junior members of the NFU. Offers information, activities, and games relating to farming and the countryside.
  
• FSA Kids - Features fun facts, coloring pages, and other printables. From the U.S. Farm Service Agency.
  
• The Farm - Learn about life on the farm by watching videos, taking a short trivia quiz, and a virtual tour of an exhibit at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago, Illinois.
  
• Kid's Field Day - Helps children understand the importance of agriculture in everyday life through information on soil, crops, weather, and equipment.
  
• Organic Kids' Zone - Learn how organic farmers use earth-friendly methods to grow healthy food. Includes an activity book to download, and instructions for building a worm compost bin.
  
• Kids Farm - About animals, plants, activities and people who live and work on ranches on the western slope of the Colorado Rocky Mountains.
  
• KBears' Farm - Interactive guide to life on the farm. Includes pictures, animal sounds, and related links.
  
• Science For Kids - Offers news about plants, animals, and other agricultural issues. Also includes pop quizzes, and pictures. Site is available in Spanish.
  
• Food and Agricultures of the World - Covers topics such as the history of food, nutrition, and agriculture as well as current farming practices across the globe.
  
• Harvest of History - Explore a virtual village and see videos about how food production has changed over the last hundred years.
  
• Farm Life and Farm Animals - Students from more than a dozen countries tell about life on the farm.
  
• Farm Safety 4 Just Kids - Includes safety tips, coloring pages, print-and-color brochures, and interactive quiz.
  
• George Washington: Pioneer Farmer - Several photographs and facts about the farming techniques and technologies practiced at Mount Vernon.
  
• Factory Farming - Explores the negative side of intensive animal agriculture.
  
• The Story of Florida Orange Juice - Describes the process of quality testing, harvesting, storing, labeling, and juice extracting of this healthy beverage. Includes related photos of the process.
  
• Harvest of Fear - Reports on the risks, benefits, hopes, and fears of genetically modified food crops. Includes interviews with scientists, food industry representatives, farmers, and critics. From PBS.
  
• National Agricultural Library Kids' Science Page - Lists of books, articles, and websites on specific agricultural subjects. Also includes related science fair projects, biographies of leading scientists, and 4-H projects.
  
• Healthy Farm Practices - Presents facts about organic dairy, cows and milk, as well as instructions for homemade dairy projects.
  
• The Great Corn Adventure - An animated history about corn, where it came from, how it is grown, what it is used for.
  
• Death of a Dream - Explores the rise and fall of Midwestern farmhouses, and the literature they inspired. Also examines the cost of advances in agriculture. From PBS.
  
• Why Biotech - Explains how advances in food biotechnology could help feed a growing population, grow more nutritious foods, and keep the earth productive and healthy.
  
• Kids Organic Club - Presents the methods, health benefits, and environmental factors of organic farming.
  
• Camp Silos - Explores the prairie, pioneer farming, the story of corn, and the future of farming.
  
• Tiki's Guide to Food - Explains what food is, where it comes from, and how it is made.
  
• Farming in Alberta for Kids - Learn about different farm animals in Alberta, Canada. Some activities are provided.
  
• Friends of the National Zoo: Kids' Farm - Learn what farm animals are at the zoo, how to take care of them, and how to grow pizza.
  
• Kids' Corner - Interactive story and coloring books from this farm equipment manufacturer.
  
• Wheat Mania - A day in the live of Kansas wheat farms with virtual tours and trivia.
  
  

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