Looking Closely: Hands On Worms

F.I.T. Family books to read at home with parents and younger siblings

Secret Pizza Party by Adam Rubin and Daniel Salmieri
The Little Red Hen (Makes a Pizza) by Philemon Sturges
The Little Red Hen by Jerry Pinkney
Tops & Bottoms by Janet Stevens
E-I-E-I-O: How Old MacDonald Got His Farm by Judy Sierra
Secrets of the Garden by Kathleen W. Zoehfeld
Maisy Grows a Garden by Lucy Cousins
I Will Not Ever Eat a Tomato by Lauren Child
Diary of a Worm by Doreen Cronin
The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter

WEBSITE LINKS

• Smithsonian Institute’s How Does Pizza Grow?
• Sustainable Food Laboratory
• School Garden Checklist by Let’s Move!
• Harvest Calendar for Rhode Island
• The Edible Schoolyard Project
• Wholesome Wave
• What is Soil? from Soil4Kids
• Engineering is Elementary’s Designing Plant Packages
• Printable Maps from National Geographic 
• Cooking Light’s How to Make Pizza Dough
• IRA/NCTE Read Write Think

VIDEOS 

BOOKS AND ARTICLES

Pizza, Grains, Cheese and Tomatoes

Butterworth, C. (2011). How Did that Get in my Lunchbox? The Story of Food. Somerville, MA: Candlewick Press.

Child, L. (2000). I Will Never Not Ever Eat a Tomato. Somerville, MA: Candlewick Press.

De Laurentiis, Giada. (2013). Recipes for Adventure: Naples! New York: Grosset & Dunlap.

Eamer, C. (2012). The World in Your Lunchbox: The Wacky History and Weird Science of Everyday Foods. Toronto, Ontario: Annick Press.

Integrated Marketing Services.(2012). Fresh Produce Guide: 300(+) Fruits, Vegetables and Herbs.  Apopka, FL: Integrated Marketing Services.

Keller, L. (2003). Arnie, the Doughnut (Adventures of Arnie the Doughnut). New York: Henry Holt and Co.

Pinkney, J. (2006). The Little Red Hen. New York: Dial Books for Young Readers.

Rubin, A. and Salmieri, D. (2013). Secret Pizza Party! New York: Dial Books for Young Readers.

Sturges, P. (1999). The Little Red Hen (Makes a Pizza). New York: Puffin Books.

Taus-Bolstad, S. (2013).  From Wheat to Bread. Minneapolis, MN: Lerner Publishing Group, Inc.

Gardening

Creasy, R. (1994).  Blue Potatoes, Orange Tomatoes. San Francisco, CA: Sierra Club Books for Children.

Hardesty, C. (2000). Grow Your Own Pizza: Gardening Plans and Recipes for Kids. Golden, CO: Fulcrum Publishing.

Sierra, J. (2014). E-I-E-I-O: How Old MacDonald Got His Farm. Somerville, MA: Candlewick Press.

Stevens, J. (1995).  Tops & Bottoms. New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

Zoehfeld, K.W., (2012). Secrets of the Garden: Food Chains and the Food Web in Our Backyard. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.

Dirt

Bial, R. (2000). A Handful of Dirt. New York: Walker Publishing Company, Inc.

Kudlinski, K. (2005). What Do Roots Do? Minnetonka, MN: Northwood Books for Young Readers.

NSTA Press. (2001). Dig In! Hands-On Soil Investigations. Arlington, VA: National Science Teachers Association Press.

Schreiber, A. (1994). Log Hotel. New York: Scholastic Trade.

Silver, D. (1993). One Small Square: Backyard. New York: W.H. Freeman and Company.

Tomecek, S. (2002). Dirt. Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society.

Worms

Cronin, D. (2003). Diary of a Worm. New York: Joanna Cotler Books.

French, V. (2009). Yucky Worms. Somerville, MA: Candlewick Press.

Holmes, K. (1999). Earthworms. Mankato, MN: Bridgestone Books.

Kalman, B. (2004). The Life Cycle of an Earthworm. New York: Crabtree Publishing Company.

Llewellyn, C., Watts, B. (2000). Earthworms. London: Franklin Watts.

Loewen, N. (2006). Garden Wigglers: Earthworms in Your Backyard. North Mankato, MN: Picture Window Books.

Pfeffer, W. (2004). Wiggling Worms at Work. New York: HarperCollins Children’s Books.

Ross, M.E., (1996). Wormology. Minneapolis, MN: Carolrhoda Books.

Sunlight and Water

Bang, M., Chisholm, P. (2009). Living Sunlight: How Plants Bring the Earth to Life. New York: The Blue Sky Press.

Strauss, R. (2007). One Well: The Story of Water on Earth. Tonawanda, NY: Kids Can Press Ltd.

Reference

Kingsolver, B. (2007). Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life. New York: Harper Perennial.

Lehr, S. (1991). The Child’s Sense of Developing Theme: Responses to Literature. New York: Teachers College Press.

Louv, R. (2008). Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder. Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill.

Obama, M. (2012). American Grown: The Story of the White House Kitchen Garden and Gardens Across America. New York: Crown.

Pappas, C., Kiefer, B., and Levstik, L. (1999). An Integrated Language Perspective in the Elementary School: An Action Approach, Third Edition. New York: Addison Wesley Longman, Inc.

Pollan, M. (2009). The Omnivore’s Dilemma: The Secrets Behind What You Eat, Young Readers Edition. New York: Dial Books.