Organic Foods

From the Series Growing Green

  • Interest Level: Grade 6 - Grade 8
  • Reading Level: Grade 6

Have you and your family eaten organic foods? Maybe you’ve compared fruits and vegetables on the regular produce shelves to those in the organic food section at your local market. So what makes food organic, how is it different from the other foods at the grocery store, and why might you choose to eat organic?

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978-1-4677-9712-2
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Interest Level Grade 6 - Grade 8
Reading Level Grade 6
Genre Social Studies
Copyright 2016
Publisher Lerner Publishing Group
Imprint Lerner Publications ™
Language English
Number of Pages 64
Publication Date 2016-01-01
Reading Counts! Level 11.6
Text Type Informational/Explanatory
BISACS JNF065000, JNF014000, JNF037020
Dewey 631.5/84
Graphics Full-color illustrations
Dimensions 6 x 9
Lexile 1160
Features Bibliography/further reading, Glossary, Index, Photo captions, Sidebars, Table of contents, Teaching Guides, and eSource

Author: David M. Barker

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Growing Green

Organic foods, sustainable agriculture, free-range farming, eating local—what do these terms mean? And how are these concepts influencing the way people farm, shop, cook, and eat? Readers will evaluate four “green” agricultural food movements, learn how the movements started, View available downloads →