Agriculture: Education

Watson Library has a variety of books and eBooks on Agriculture Education and related topics. The books listed below are a sampling of what we have available in the library - to find more, check our library catalog, or use the "Ask Us!" tab on the left for help. 

• Raise : what 4-H teaches seven million kids and how its lessons could change food and farming forever / Kiera Butler ; with photographs by Rafael Roy. -- Available through the library catalog as a Book
• The future of Africa : challenges and opportunities / Jakkie Cilliers. -- Available through the library catalog as a eBook
• Agriculture to zoology : information literacy in the life sciences / edited by Jodee L. Kuden, Julianna E. Braund-allen, Daria O. Carle.-- Available through the library catalog as a eBook

Agriculture Education Databases

• AHS Plant Heat Zone Map
• ARS Image Gallery:
  High-quality digital photographs available from the Agricultural Research Service Information Staff. Photos in the Image Gallery are copyright-free, public domain, images unless otherwise indicated.
• American Society for Horticultural Science
• American Horticultural Society
• Biodiversity Heritage Library: Seed & Nursery Catalog Collection:
  "These seed and nursery catalogs were digitized from the significant collections of BHL participating institutions, namely from the New York Botanical Garden (NYBG), Cornell University, the Missouri Botanical Garden (MBG) and the National Agriculture Library (NAL)."
• CalPhotos:
  "CalPhotos is a collection of 480,285 photos of plants, animals, fossils, people, and landscapes from around the world."
• Directory of Horticultural Websites:
  Comprehensive directory maintained by the Elisabeth C. Miller Library at the University of Washington Botanic Gardens.
• USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map
• USDA: PLANTS Database:
  "Provides standardized information about the vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, hornworts, and lichens of the U.S. and its territories."
• USDA National Agricultural Library: Plants and Crops
• USDA Pomological Watercolor Collection:
  "The USDA Pomological Watercolor Collection documents fruit and nut varieties developed by growers or introduced by USDA plant explorers around the turn of the 20th century. Technically accurate paintings were used to create lithographs illustrating USDA bulletins, yearbooks, and other series distributed to growers and gardeners across America."

Credo Reference is our scholarly alternative to Wikipedia. It allows you to search hundreds of reference books on a wide variety of subjects. Use this search box to browse Agriculture, Education, and related topics from titles including:

Encyclopedia of Agriculture and Food Systems

This 3-volume reference work comprehensively covers the important areas of agriculture and food science, covering important methods, practices and ideas in this growing discipline

Elsevier Science & Technology 2014
 

Encyclopedia of Educational Philosophy and Theory

This encyclopaedia is a dynamic reference and study place for students, teachers, researchers and professionals in the field of education, philosophy and social sciences, offering both short and long entries on topics of theoretical and practical interest in educational theory and philosophy by authoritative world scholars representing the full ambit of education as a rapidly expanding global field of knowledge and expertise.

Springer Science+Business Media 2017

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