Buried Treasure: Roots and Tubers - OUT OF PRINT by Meredith Sayles Hughes; Tom Hughes
	ISBN-10:   0822528304 ISBN-13:   9780822528302 Publisher:   Lerner Publishing Group Series:   Plants We Eat Ser. Edition:   illustrated Category:   2012 USDA Approved NE Materials, Agriculture, Nutrition Pub. Date:   May 1998 Pages:   96 Format:   Trade Cloth Grades:   5 to 7
Subjects
CROPS
Description/Notes
CA 2012 USDA Approved NE Materials *Spotlighted in Booklist as an 'established series that continue s to turn out titles of high quality and appeal.' This lively science series serves up a cornucopia of information on a variety of edible plants. Explore topics ranging from where the plants originated; how they were first cultivated; how they're currently grown, processed, and sold; to how they're eaten around the world and what their scientific applications are. Each book includes cross-sectional diagrams of the focus plants, literary quotes, nutritional information, sidebars, recipes, and activities. Supports the national science education standards Unifying Concepts and Processes: Systems, Order, and Organization; Unifying Concepts and Processes: Evolution and Equilibrium; Unifying Concepts and Processes: Form and Function; and Life Science as outlined by the National Academics of Science and endorsed by the National Science Teachers Association. #Includes index.#Relates the history and describes the use and production of such roots and tubers as potatoes, yams, cassava, carrots, beets, turnips, radishes, and parsnips. Covering such vegetables as potatoes, sweet potatoes, carrots, turnips, beets, & radishes, this account describes the origin, history, cultivation, & importance of each. Relates the history and describes the use and production of such roots and tubers as potatoes, yams, cassava, carrots, beets, turnips, radishes, and parsnips. Includes recipes. This volume relates the history and describes the use and production of such roots and tubers as potatoes, yams, cassava, carrots, beets, turnips, radishes, and parsnips. It includes recipes. This upbeat and lively life science series serves,up a cornucopia of information on a variety of,edible plants. Explore topics ranging from where,the plants origininated, how they were first,cultivated, how they're currently grown, processed,and sold to how they're eaten around the world and,what their scientific applications are. Each book,includes cross-sectional diagrams of the focus,plants, literary quotes, nutritional information,sidebars, recipes, and activities. Includes,charts, diagrams, glossary, recipes and,activities. Ages 10-12 years.