The Story of Cotton
Have you ever thought about where the clothes you and your family wear come from, or the dressing you put on your salad, or the sheets you crawl under at night before you go to sleep? It comes from cotton! Cotton.the most important and widely used fiber ever known to man. Cotton is used for thousands of things, including clothes, space suits for astronauts and ingredients in the food we eat.
How it is grown, cultivated, harvested and finally processed into cloth and other co-products is what you will be learning about in this story of cotton and Cotton’s Journey – A field Trip in a Box.
I History
II The Plant
III Production
IV Processing the Crop
V Cotton Lint
VI Cottonseed
VII The Cotton Industry and You
VIII Sample Questions
IX Cotton Facts
We have done all the research for you…gathered supplemental literature books, videos and CD’s, and offer a variety of resources to be used in conjunction with your study unit. So let’s get started on our cotton’s journey and learn more about this useful, resourceful and magical plant we take for granted…COTTON! 
