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Kareero
Kareero is a one-of-a-kind interactive interest assessment tool. Through the in-app development of a school gardening program, Kareero tracks your choices and actions to reveal your interest areas. Used in conjunction with Agriculture in the Classroom Canada’s thinkAG website, Kareero helps you explore careers that match your interests.
Manitoba Seed Kit
The Manitoba Seed Kit is a hands-on, interactive resource that introduces your class to the diversity of crops grown right here in Manitoba.
Students learn to identify seed types through interactive classification processes and build awareness of how these crops are used as food, animal feed, fibre, and biofuels, as well as being a source of ingredients for many everyday products.
There are 3 activities included in this kit:
Plus, cross-curricular activity suggestions that can be used as application and/or assessment activities.
Each Manitoba Seed Kit also comes with the educational and beautifully illustrated book about seeds, It All Starts with a Seed - How Food Grows.
Thank you to our seed sources:
Special thanks to AITC-SK for your inspiration in creating this kit.
Real Farm Lives: Turnips, Carrots and Potatoes
Drawing from CropLife’s Real Farm Lives videos, which follows the McKennas, a multigenerational Prince Edward Island farm family, these interactive and engaging resources on carrots, turnips and potatoes aim to help Grade 10 and 11 students explore the value of Canada’s agriculture and food system. The resource includes a lesson plan on each of the featured vegetables, including a presentation and recipe.
#MyFoodChoice
The #MyFoodChoice resource is an inquiry based resource where students will lead their own research, to answer the question of "How can I make informed food choices?" Through the five lessons students will develop critical thinking skills by utilizing interactive student sheets, engaging videos, and more.
Agriculture Bingo
Are you going on a road trip? Learn about agriculture in Manitoba as you drive through the province with these fun bingo cards! Look for the items on your bingo card, colour them, and get five spaces in a row to win!
Agriculture Innovation Match-up Game
The Agriculture Innovation Match-Up Game provides an interactive lesson and playing cards to help students explore how agriculture has changed over time and is always innovating to find new ways to produce food sustainably and efficiently. This learning kit contains a Teacher Guide and 4 card sets of 20 cards/set with historical and present agricultural images. The lesson connects to general learning outcomes in Kindergarten, grade 1 and grade 2 science and specific learning outcomes in grade 2 social studies.
Agriculture Innovation Timeline Game
Students will discover how agriculture has evolved over time and is always innovating to find new ways to produce food sustainably and efficiently by creating a timeline using agriculture innovation cards. This learning kit contains a teacher guide, lesson plan, innovation worksheet, and 4 – 30 card sets used to play a game that illustrates agriculture innovations throughout history.
Agriculture Trivia
Test your students' knowledge of some of Manitoba's foundational crops and animals with this interactive online trivia game. All the answers can be found in our Foundations of Manitoba Agriculture Virtual Resource Hub. The Foundations of Manitoba Agriculture is made possible thanks to generous support from our 2022 Presenting Sponsor, Peak of the Market.
Before the Plate
Before the Plate is a documentary that attempts to close the gap between the urban consumer and farming in Canada. Follow young farmers and industry experts to learn what a modern Canadian farm operation looks like, and discuss the most pressing questions consumers have about their food. Be sure to check out the comprehensive, curriculum-linked Student Guide we have created to supplement the viewing of this documentary.
Biodiversity and Water
Biodiversity and Water takes Grade 8 students on a journey through the ways in which biodiversity in general, and agrobiodiversity in particular, play significant roles in maintaining our water resources so that they can be used by humans, animals and plants.
Blossom's Big Job
Read this storybook and get to know Blossom, a busy honey bee who is on a mission to pollinate her flowers until they mature into fruit. Learn about the role bees play in environment, including collecting nectar for their hive and pollinating flowers.
Built on Agriculture
Built on Agriculture is a four-part documentary series that pays tribute to the people who settled the plains of Manitoba and what they achieved. Part 1 -The Selkirk Settlers: Lord Selkirk’s compassion for the Scottish crofters helped seed the Canadian prairies with a population that helped retain the land for Canada. They faced many struggles surviving the early decades and becoming successful farmers. Because of their success the prairies were then settled by waves of immigrant farmers attracted by free land and fueled by the Canadian Government’s support for the railroad. Teachers, please note — During the discussion of the battle in June of 1816 between men from the North West Company and the Selkirk settlers (15:48 – 16:10 in the video) Dr. Jack Bumstead uses the term ‘mixed bloods’ to describe the men from the North West Company. While this term was commonly used in the past, it is no longer acceptable. You may want to use this instance as a teachable moment and have a discussion with you students about how language evolves with greater cultural awareness and as part of the work of reconciliation. Part 2 - The Institutions: The Grain Exchange, grain pools, private grain companies and The Canadian Wheat Board all contributed to agriculture growth in Manitoba and western Canada. Women played a major role in establishing agriculture growth and a healthy farm family. Part 3 - The Farmers: Five Manitoba farmers are profiled to give insight into the hardships and variety of modern-day farming. Noted experts comment on the concerns and the opportunities that are part of the modern farmer’s world. Just what is the future of the family farm? Part 4 - Feeding the World: Industry trends, consumer trends, technology, equipment, and climate all will contribute to the future of agriculture in the next century. What has food science contributed? What are science, business and government working toward in the future to produce better, healthier food in larger quantities? Part 1 - The Selkirk Settlers and Part 3 - The Farmers have both been recognized with Regional Emmy nominations.
COVID-19 & Canada's Dairy Industry
Why was milk being dumped in parts of Canada when the COVID-19 pandemic first hit? Have your students look beyond the headlines to think critically about how and why COVID-19 is affecting the many sectors of the Canadian dairy industry.
COVID-19 & Canada's Food Supply
How did COVID-19 affect Canada’s agriculture system and food supply? Listen to CBC Radio One: The Current with Matt Galloway – “Securing Canada’s Food Supply” and use the worksheet provided to assess students' understanding.
Canola Crush Kit
Canola was developed right here in Manitoba in 1974. Canola oil is found in many of the foods we eat, including salad dressing, margarines, cookies, and granola bars. Canola oil can be found in non-edible products such as lipstick, hand cream, soap, lip balm, bath oils, sunscreen, lotion, and print ink. In this fun and surprisingly challenging activity, you and your students learn how to grade canola oil and crush canola seeds. You’ll also learn why it’s important to do a good job! This package includes instructional guide, canola seeds, seed counter, roller and tape – everything you need to teach this hands-on activity for all grade levels. The kit can be ordered from Manitoba Canola Growers by contacting info@canolagrowers.com.
Celebrating Liberation with a Promise
By integrating historical events such as World War II with skills such as farming and survival off the land, students remember and learn from the past in order that they can work towards a positive future. Students explore, observe and examine tulip bulbs. They are tasked with identifying various locations in their school yard that are suitable to plant their bulbs based on various criteria, including different growing conditions. By monitoring and collecting data from these locations during the plant’s growth cycle, they enhance their understanding of the tulip cycle. Activities include: Planting tulip bulbs History of the Netherlands 1944 Force growing bulbs Growing spring bulbs Spring in the Netherlands 1945 And more This program was created to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Canadian Forces’ role in the Liberation of Europe at the end of World War II.
Challenging Conditions
Challenging Conditions - Exploring the Lives of Subsistence Farmers in the Developing World is an activity that invites students to explore what life is like for subsistence farmers in the developing world by introducing them to a character and various aspects of his/her life. The activity emphasizes quality of life and the effects of issues such as hunger, health, conflict, gender dynamics, environment and climate change. Related media: Program puts students in shoes of subsistence farmers (The Western Producer) The complete kit contains a teacher guide and all materials needed. Download the kit in French and English.
Chicken Farm Tour Lesson
Join third-generation Manitoba chicken farmer, Rachel, for a virtual tour of her family-owned and operated broiler chicken farm, provided courtesy of Manitoba Chicken Producers. Discover how Rachel cares for her chickens and the technology used to provide the chickens with nutritious food, clean water, safe shelter, living space, and health care. Download the lesson plan, connected to the grade 4 curriculum. Choose to do one or all of the suggested activities with your class after attending the tour. We've included a K-W-L worksheet, a crossword, and a math activity for you to either print or send to students electronically. All worksheets are fillable PDFs if your students are able to fill them out electronically.
Cowspiracy: An Alternative View
Are you showing your students the film Cowspiracy? Use these resources to provide different viewpoints, encourage critical thinking, foster media literacy, and stimulate meaningful debates between your students.
Cultivate Your Career
This is a student workbook that walks high school students through the decision-making process of choosing a career, starting from finding out what might interest them all the way to funding their education. Students can use this resource by themselves, or with a teacher, career counsellor or parent, to learn about the wide variety of agricultural careers and how they are applicable to them. Students first learn more about themselves by exploring their individual interest areas through a self-assessment tool. They then explore the possible careers within their interest areas and then narrow down their options to their top three career choices. The next step is discovering their pathway into the workforce whether that be by direct entry or post-secondary education. The final step walks students through their various options to fund their education or training. This print resource is available to order as a magazine (one per student) or as a PDF download (colour and low contrast version for photocopying available).
Design a Dairy Cow Habitat
Farm animals live in very specific habitats. This worksheet will help students identify all the components, food, water, living space, cover/shelter of a Canadian dairy cow habitat. Then students can use their creative abilities to design a dairy cow habitat that meets the needs of Manitoba dairy cows. The teacher guide provides a lesson plan with a worksheet, assessment ideas and a rubric. This is a great companion resource for Follow the Dairy Farmers video and Kahoot!
Discovery of Canola
Canola was created using traditional plant breeding methods at the University of Manitoba by Canadian plant scientists Dr. Baldur Stefansson and Dr. Keith Downey. The name Canola comes from Can as in Canada and ola as in oil and was trademarked in 1978. Over the decades canola has grown to be, along with wheat, one of the two most grown crops in Manitoba and across the prairies. This short 1:25 minute video celebrates canola, its discovery, contribution to a healthy diet and impact here at home and around the world.
Eat Well: Exploring Canada's Food Guide
Have your students explore Canada's new nutrition facts table and discover how to make healthy food choices using % Daily Value amounts and guidelines, especially for sugar, sodium and beverages.
Exploring Sustainability of the Manitoba Pork Industry
Students can explore the sustainability of the Manitoba pork industry using these six, short, 2-minute videos which cover the environmental, social, and economic aspects of sustainably farming pigs, as well as animal welfare practices and the use of technology on a pig farm. The six videos are: Environmental Stewardship Give Me Shelter Barn Life GPS Technology on the Farm The Nutrient Cycle Waste Not. Want Not. Students can use the Video Analysis Sheet to help them gather and critically think about the information shared in the videos. Then, using the Share the Knowledge worksheet, students can choose to present it, write it, draw it, or gamify it to inform others about what they have learned.
Farm to Plate: Recipes & Stories
Your students will love watching videos featuring real Manitoba farm families, courtesy of Great Tastes of Manitoba. Then, using one of the ingredients found on the farm, they'll use the supplied recipe to make a dish. We've included live links to videos in each of the recipe sheets, making these ideal for at home remote learning. They can also be used in human ecology class or any other class where you might make a meal together. There are also links to snapAG fact sheets to take their agriculture education to the next level!
FarmFood360° in the Classroom
Tour a farm or processing facility from the comfort of your couch! FarmFood360° is a series of virtual farm and processing facility tours throughout Canada. Students can test their knowledge at the end of each tour.
Farming Through the Seasons
This grade 1 Manitoba curriculum-connected project provides teachers/parents with a project that not only reinforces real-life math and science skills, but also teaches kids about the important work that farmers do. The specific skills that this project reinforces are: MATH Subitize and recognize arrangements of dots/objects Represent numbers to 20 Addition/subtraction within 20 Estimation Repeating patterns SCIENCE Use appropriate vocabulary related to the senses Give examples of how the senses are important to a farmer Ask questions that lead to explorations of living things
Feeding the World & Protecting the Environment
Learn all about fertilizer's important role in crop production! Through case studies and labs, students will then explore the relationship between fertilizers, the environment, and federal regulations, such as the Clean Water Act.
Fertilizer 101
Every plant needs nutrients to grow, from corn in Ontario, to peaches in British Columbia, to potatoes in Prince Edward Island, and canola in Saskatchewan. In this lesson students will learn about three important nutrients: nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium.
Follow the Beef Farmer Farm Tour
Go on a tour of Stepler Farms near Miami, Manitoba without leaving the classroom. Students will: • Discover where their food comes from and how it is produced. • Learn how Andre: o Provides all the components; food, water, living space, shelter and more, to create a great habitat for the beef cows. o Discover how the beef cow is well adapted to live in Manitoba. • Identify the nutrients provided by beef and its place on the Canada Food Guide plate. • Identify some of the careers involved in producing sustainable, safe, and nutritious beef. The Livestream recording includes the video and a Q&A with Stefan. A Kahoot and All About Beef Student Activity Booklet are included as fun, interactive assessment activities.
Follow the Canola Farmer Video Farm Tour
Go on a tour of a Will Bergman’s Manitoba canola farm without leaving the classroom. Students will: • Discover where their food comes from and how it is produced. • Learn about the life cycle of canola and the conditions needed to grow a healthy canola crop. • Identify what food comes from canola. • Describe the role of fats in our diet. • Discover why Manitoba’s natural resources are ideal for canola farming. The Livestream recording includes the video and a Q&A with Will. This is a great companion resource for the Canola Crush Kit and the Make Your Own Salad Dressing Using Canola Oil! resource.
Follow the Dairy Farmer Farm Tour
Go on a tour of Signer Farm near Kleefeld, Manitoba without leaving the classroom. Students will: • Discover where their food comes from and how it is produced. • Learn how Stefan: o provides all the components; food, water, living space, shelter and more, to create a great habitat for the dairy cows. o Uses technology to monitor and provide for the health and well-being of the cows. • Identify the nutrients provided by milk and the foods we make from milk. The Livestream recording includes the video and a Q&A with Stefan. A Kahoot is included as a fun, interactive assessment activity. This is a great companion resource for the Design a Dairy Cow Habitat resource.
Follow the Food Kit - Exploring Food Loss & Food Waste
Food is wasted and lost every day, around the world, but do we understand the impact of that on food security, the economy, and the environment? Follow the Food – Exploring Food Loss and Food Waste is a hands-on, inquiry-based resource to help students gain a better appreciation as to the value of food, the resources that go into making it, how the agriculture and food industry in Manitoba reduces food loss and waste and the role schools and students can play in reducing food waste. This resource was provided to teachers as part of CALM 2023. With your order, you will receive a: 1.Book: grade-appropriate and focused on building agricultural literacy (FR/EN) 2. Activities: -Food Loss & Waste. Follow food from farm to plate and beyond with your students, learning about the impact of food waste and loss on food security and the environment. Discover what farmers and those in the agriculture industry do to reduce food loss and waste along this journey and explore food waste reduction at home and school. -Balloons go Bananas. Conduct an experiment with food waste to mimic landfill conditions, learning how food waste produces greenhouse gases when it decomposes. Students will discover alternative methods to dispose of food in environmentally-friendly ways. 3. Teacher Guide: instructions and curricular connections to help you use the activities in your lessons. This resource is being restocked. Check out our other resource kits!
Follow the Hog Farmers Farm Tour
Go on a tour of two Manitoba hog farms without leaving the classroom. Students will: • discover where their food comes from and how it is produced. • Learn how Andrea Elias and Craig Sawatzky: o provide all the components; food, water, living space, shelter and more, to create a great habitat for their hogs. o Use technology to monitor and provide for the health and well-being of the hogs • Identify some of the careers involved in producing sustainable, safe, and nutritious pork for Manitobans and people around the world. The Livestream recording includes the video and a Q&A with Andrea and Craig.
Follow the Wheat Farmer Video Farm Tour
Go on a tour of a Jason Rempel’s Manitoba wheat farm without leaving the classroom. Students will: • Discover where their food comes from and how it is produced. • Learn about the life cycle of wheat and the conditions needed to grow a healthy wheat crop. • Identify what food and nutrients come from wheat. • Discover why Manitoba’s natural resources are ideal for canola farming. • Discover how a combine harvester, and all the simple machines in it, work to harvest grain. The Livestream recording includes the video and a Q&A with Jason. This is a great companion resource for the Simple Machines are Everywhere on the Farm worksheet.
Food Evolution Teacher Guide
The Food Evolution Manitoba Teacher Guide is designed to accompany the viewing of the 2016 documentary Food Evolution. The activities are designed to have students learn: -information about GMOs -how science is used and misused to support an argument -how to determine credible and non-credible sources of scientific information -to critically think about the media’s role in the GMO debate -to be more discerning consumers of information The guide provides: Classroom resources specifically for Manitoba teachers and students The Manitoba curriculum connections for these resources
Food Gratitude Project
Help your students show support for those working in our food supply chain with this activity sheet. Students will think about the essential workers that continue to work every day to provide safe and healthy food to Canadians and either draw a picture or write a message to them.
Food Inc: An Alternate View
If you are showing your students the film Food Inc., here are some resources to use in the classroom to provide different viewpoints, encourage critical thinking, foster media literacy and stimulate debates. This resource sheet includes links to American and Canadian sources of information, video, and text that deal with the issues covered in the movie.
Foundations of Manitoba Agriculture Virtual Resource Hub
The Foundations of Manitoba Agriculture Virtual Resource Hub is a series of interactive courses and information sheets that invite you and your students to explore the different crops grown and animals raised in Manitoba. Making the connection between food and where it comes from can lead to healthier eating choices and a better appreciation for agriculture and it's role in feeding the world. The Foundations of Manitoba Agriculture resources help students connect what they eat to the crops and animals needed to produce those foods, and ultimately, the people involved in getting food to their plate.
From Farm to Food Cookbook
From Farm to Food is a cookbook that CropLife Canada and Canadian dieticians created to travel through each season with comforting recipes, all while learning about agriculture in Canada.
Get the Dirt on Soil
Check out this book for discovery into the subject of soil science. Explore topics like the properties of soil, nutrients, and soil testing through puzzles, quizzes, and more! Also, get to know an agriculture engineer by reading an exclusive interview.
Got Milk? Exploring Manitoba's Dairy Industry
Bring a Manitoba dairy farm experience to your students without leaving your classroom. Students can view the video of Signer Farms, Kleefeld, Manitoba to discover what dairy cows need to stay safe and healthy, including life processes, nutrition needs, building features, and more. Reinforce the learning with curriculum linked worksheets, activities and a word search.
Grade at a Glance: Resources with Curriculum Connections
We’ve summarized all our available resources and programs and where they fit your curriculum onto one page Grade at a Glance sheets. Grade at a Glance sheets are available at the links below for: • your grade level if you are a K – Grade 8 teacher • your subject area if you are a Grade 9 – 12 teacher or Human Ecology teacher All resources and programs are hyperlinked so you can easily access more information about them. These Grade at a Glance sheets will be regularly updated with new resources or programs as they become available so that staying current with what we have to offer you is easy.
Guardians of the Grasslands
This award-winning Canadian documentary, Guardians of the Grasslands, 12:45 min., (English and with French subtitles) explores the current state of one of the world’s most endangered ecosystems and the role cattle play in its survival. Your students can have fun while reviewing and reflecting on the key messages in the documentary and their relevance to Manitoba’s grassland ecosystem, by playing the Manitoba version of the online Guardians of the Grasslands game (English). The teacher guide (E/F) provides pre/post documentary viewing questions, extension activities, and connections to further readings, which will help students explore the key topics of biodiversity, soil health, climate change, land management, and more.
Healthy Foods from Healthy Farms
Healthy Foods from Healthy Farms is available for Grades 1-3 and for Grades 3-5. This resource includes: -A 3-part video (below), that will take your students on a journey behind the scenes of a favourite snack (crackers, cheese and carrots) to meet some of the Manitoba farmers and processors who grow and process your food. -An activity which gives students the opportunity to create a healthy snack using Canada’s new Food Guide while learning about the farmers who grow the food and the people who process the food. This activity is available as a: Class Kit which comes with a teacher guide and enough activity sheets and sticker sheets for 25 students. Order below. or A downloadable resource. Click the button to download a folder with everything you need to deliver the activity in French or English to your students!
Healthy Kids Quest
A healthy, balanced lifestyle is particularly important for children, since habits established in childhood often stay with us for life. Take on the Healthy Kids Quest to encourage and empower your students to make healthy lifestyle choices while meeting cross-curricular requirements for Grades 1 to 3. The program consists of 6 modules, each on a different theme. Each theme includes an introductory lesson plan, a theme-specific challenge, one or more follow-up activities and an information sheet for parents.
How Does Your Garden Grow?
Engage students in growing plants! Students will plant seeds in water gel crystals to enhance their ability to observe the growth of roots, stems, and leaves over several days. Then, explore how plants are grown in hydroponic systems.
International Year of the Pulses
This series of lessons will introduce topics such as the role pulses can have in maintaining a balanced diet, the idea of pulses as edible parts of a plant, how to prepare a balanced meal with pulses, the benefits of growing pulses, learning about pulses around the world, and food security.
Introduction to Pulses
Pulses are the group of crops that includes dry beans, dry peas, chickpeas, and lentils. As a steady source of nutrition and soil sustainability, pulse crops play a major role in our global food security, a role which will only grow in the future. Curriculum connections include: -Grade 3 Science units: Growth and Changes in Plants, Soils in the Environment -Grade 4 Science unit Habitats and Communities -Grade 4 Social Studies Cluster 3 The following worksheets, created by Manitoba Pulse and Soybean Growers and Agriculture in the Classroom & MB, focus on the role that pulses play in advancing health and nutrition, food security and environmental sustainability.
Journey2050
How will we sustainably feed nearly 10 billion people by the year 2050? Journey 2050 allows schools around the world to experience agriculture like it’s never been taught before. As students explore world food sustainability they are encouraged to think critically about the ripple effect on social, economic and environmental factors locally and globally. Agricultural experts and real farm families from Kenya, India and Canada guide students through a virtual farm simulation, career avatar game and geography scavenger hunt. Teachers can run the online program on their own. Visit https://www.journey2050.com/ to access curriculum links, step-by-step lesson plans, animated videos, interactive games, agriculture news, answer keys and much more. If you need assistance running the program or have any questions, please reach out to our program manager, Adelle Gervin at adelle@aitc.mb.ca. We also offer classroom presentations. Click the button below to register now!
Keeping the Great Lakes Great
The Great Lakes offer many important contributions to Canada's society, including: economic, environmental, and social benefits. Learn more about these through the research, case studies, trivia, and hands on activities provided in this resource.
Let's Talk Eggs! Exploring Manitoba's Egg Industry
Bring a Manitoba egg farm experience to your students without leaving your classroom. Eggs are a very popular part of our daily diets and our Manitoba egg farmers work hard every day to make sure we have eggs to enjoy! Student will: -Explore the production of eggs on a Manitoba egg farm -Identify the steps in the journey of eggs from farm to table -Create and observe chemical changes through a 'Naked Egg' experiment -Describe how eggs provide nutrients that help us maintain a healthy body Includes videos, worksheets, experiments and more.
Make Your Own Salad Dressing Using Canola Oil!
Engage your students in learning about the properties and changes in substances and the particle theory of matter while they create their own simple emulsified salad dressing with canola oil from one of Manitoba’s top two crops. The teacher guide provides curriculum connections, a lesson plan, a student worksheet, and a fun physical activity that provides a model of the chemistry behind an emulsified salad dressing for better student understanding. This is a great companion resource for the Follow the Canola Farmer video.
Manitoba Pork Educational Videos
These six, short, 2-minute videos deal with environmental, social, and economic aspects of sustainably farming pigs, as well as animal welfare practices and the use of technology on a pig farm. The six videos are: 1. Environmental Stewardship 2. Give Me Shelter 3. Barn Life 4. GPS Technology on the Farm 5. The Nutrient Cycle 6. Waste Not. Want Not.
Manitoba Soil Exploration: Digging Deep
Students will dig deep into how soil is formed in Manitoba. A variety of activities cover topics such as what kind of soils are in Manitoba, and the importance of this natural resource in agriculture.
Manitoba Species at Risk: Partnerships on Agricultural Lands
Manitoba cattle ranches – a biodiversity solution? Yes - Manitoba’s beef producers play a critical role in carefully managing thousands of acres of privately-owned and agricultural Crown grasslands. Many of these grasslands provide critical habitat for Canada’s most at-risk plant and animal species. In the video, bird expert and former Manitoba Program Manager for Bird Studies Canada, Dr. Christian Artuso talks about the synergies between beef production, habitat preservation, and protecting endangered grassland species and how we can help preserve our prairie grasslands through the choices we make with our consumer dollars.
My Food is From...
Have you ever wondered about the path different foods have to take before they end up in your lunch box? This resource will enable students to identify where familiar foods are produced and describe the steps of how a particular food made it into their lunchbox.
Nourishing the Planet in the 21st Century
Engage your students with the learning materials provided on a variety of topics, including soil science and agricultural sustainability. Learn about the important role plant nutrients play in global food security, and the creation and maintenance of green spaces.
Now You're Cooking with Manitoba Chicken
Manitoba Chicken Producers serves up this beautifully illustrated cookbook and video with student-friendly recipes, garnished with chicken farming facts, food safety tips, and cooking tips to help junior cooks master the ins and outs of food prep and cooking.
Nutrient Movement
Plants remove water and nutrients from the soil through the plant's root system. Some nutrients move into root cells from the soil by diffusion and others by an energy- requiring process (active transport). This diffusion activity represents one-way movement of dissolved nutrients into the plant roots.
Our Food Has a Story
How is conventional farming different from organic farming? What is a GMO? Are chemical pesticides safe? I s buying local always the best environmental choice? You had questions about food, so we asked a farmer. Not just any farmer, but Manitoba organic vegetable and conventional crop farmer Will Bergmann. We brought a camera crew to Will's house to ask him frequently asked questions and see how he produces food to feed the world. The Our Food Has a Story Teacher's Guide includes pre- and post-viewing activities, links to Will's video, and answers to questions about buzzwords such as organic, conventional, GMOs and GE crops, and topics including pesticides and food safety, consumer choices, and how farmers are stewards of the land.
Pkwiman Wild Blueberries
A resource for Grade 7 Science and Grade 8 Social Studies teachers to support curriculum outcomes related to the ecological and cultural significance of wild blueberries in Mi’kmaki and Wabanaki. The lesson plan includes background information, guiding questions and a list of online resource. A student-facing inquiry guide is also provided. Links to a virtual farm tour are provided in this resource.
Planet X
Planet X takes an out-of-this world approach to exploring the many professions within the Agriculture and Food sector. Students will gain an appreciation and knowledge of the multitude of professions that exist within this realm, while also understanding the importance of everyday food production and sustainability to the global population. Here's the scenario: The year is 2050, and Earth’s population has topped 9 billion people. Farmers and agriculture businesses are working hard to increase production of safe and sustainable food, using new technology and innovation. But they face challenges due to climate change and competition for land use. An advanced space exploration program has identified a planet we could use to supplement agriculture on earth: Planet X. Now, it is time to send some additional professionals who can help address issues and maximize the efficiency and sustainability of the food production on Planet X. As mission specialists, your students are tasked with selecting the best team of Food Production Professionals to travel to Planet X and address the issues. Who will they choose, and why?
Planet X: Out of this world' Opportunities in Agriculture and Food
‘Out of this world’ opportunities in agriculture and food. This lesson focuses on the many professions within the Agriculture and Food sector. Students gain an appreciation and knowledge of the multitude of professions in agriculture, while understanding the importance of everyday food production and sustainability to the global population. Student activities include weblinks that help them research various careers.
Potato Power! Exploring the World of Potatoes
Add a little life to your classroom – grow a potato! The potato is one of the world’s most popular foods and one of Manitoba’s main crops. Students investigate and journal about the life cycle of this flowering plant while exploring world history and geography through the eyes of a potato using videos, worksheets, and world maps. Art projects reinforce the learning
Productivity, Technology, and Sustainability in Canadian Ag
Investigate this big question: How have technology and environmental sustainability changed in the agricultural industry? Students will explore the topics of crop nutrients, crop production, and plant breeding to answer this question.
Project Produce
How are plants classified? How are different plants grown? How are foods imported? How do unfamiliar foods end up in our local grocery store? Answer these questions and more in this resource created by the National Science Teaching Association.
Run a Food Truck
This grade 4 Manitoba curriculum connected project aims to not only reinforce real-life math and language skills, but also inspire kids in the kitchen. Although this project has been created to specifically target Grade 4 Manitoba Math and ELA outcomes, it can be used by teachers anywhere! The specific skills that this project reinforces are: MATH addition, subtraction, multiplication, division estimation identifying and adding fractions problem solving time and money graphing and data interpretation ELA use descriptive and persuasive language use online sources to conduct research; manage information and ideas design for a specific purpose and audience The link below will take you to Teachers Pay Teachers to download for free.
Season Change Scavenger Hunt
Student's go on an outdoor scavenger hunt adventure to find Fall items such as leaves, seeds, and fruits. They will then connect the items they found on the scavenger hunt to the work done by farmers as seasons change. These discussions include harvest, differences in perennial and annual plants, need to maintain health of livestock in a cold winter, and more.
Sheep Farmer Food Chain
Everything a farmer does is connected to the food chain! Farmers manage food chains to produce enough good quality, safe food for the world’s people to eat. In this activity, students will create food chains and food webs, as well as define and use related these vocabulary words: food chain, food web, producer, consumer, prey, predator, herbivore, carnivore, omnivore, and scavenger. This activity sheet comes in 2 formats: • An online interactive genially activity or • A printable worksheet Choose the format that works best for you and your students. Both are available at the links below. Curriculum connections to Grade 4 Science unit Habitats and Communities. The activity is a great companion resource to the Follow the Sheep Farmers video.
Simple Machines are Everywhere on the Farm
With this activity sheet, students learn to identify simple machines – wheels, wedges, pulleys, gears, levers, etc. – found on farm machines such as tractors, combines and air drills. Along the way, they discover where their food comes from and explore how science and technology have increased productivity on the farm.
SnapAG Fact Sheets
The snapAG resource offers a series of reader-friendly information sheets that invite users to explore current topics linked to today's agriculture and food sectors. These fully referenced, bite-sized and quick-read fact sheets take students, teachers and home educators through over 70 of the most current topics in a balanced and accurate way, with new topics in the works! Order your set of snapAG sheets and start exploring! The SnapAG Scavenger Hunt for Facts activity first has students apply prior knowledge to make predictions about a variety of current topics in agriculture. Then, students work collaboratively to check and correct predictions by exploring the science-based SnapAg resources from Agriculture in the Classroom - Canada.
Soil Sorting
Not all soil is the same - even soil that looks similar can be very different. Soils contain different properties and different nutrients that plants use. Students will be given a sample of soil to inspect and identify differences they can see in the soil, including organic and inorganic material.
Student Resources
Are your students writing a research paper or doing a class project with a focus on agriculture? Looking for accurate, balanced, current information about the agriculture and food industry? Our collection of digital resources for students features videos and websites that explore many different agriculture topics, making it easier for students to think critically about a topic, form ideas, and present their thoughts from a place of knowledge. You will find resources on the following topics: Agriculture (General) Agriculture Careers Agriculture Past and Future Animal Agriculture Crop Nutrition and Fertilizers Crop Protection and Pesticides Economics and Agriculture Farm to Plate Genetics and GMOs Innovation and Technology Just for Fun Nutrition Organic Farming Sustainability
Take a Stand
This pre-assessment activity makes a great introduction to a module or unit that discusses food security, food systems, nutrition, sustainability, and agriculture practices. Student examine their own beliefs and knowledge about food in order to become aware of the role that agriculture plays in their lives.
Teacher Appreciation Cards
Let's show our appreciation for all Teachers do for us and our kids! To show them how much we care, we made this cute printable card you can download and have your child fill in. Print one for the teacher, the principal, the librarian.... anyone who helps your child grow every day! Download the card in English or French!
Temporary Foreign Workers in Canada Educators' Resource
Explore with your students through various fun interactive activities the importance and contributions of temporary foreign workers to the agriculture and food industry as well as to consumers.
The Great Canadian Farm Tour: Season 1
Learn about Canada’s exciting agriculture and food story, and see what life is like for real Canadian farmers all across the country by taking your students on 11 virtual farm tours. This extraordinary learning opportunity will inspire your students, ignite their curiosity, and teach them about the important role agriculture plays in their lives, every day!
The Great Canadian Farm Tour: Season 2
We are back with another season of Great Canadian Farm Tour. Learn about Canada’s exciting agriculture and food story, and see what life is like for real Canadian farmers all across the country by taking your students on 11 virtual farm tours. This extraordinary learning opportunity will inspire your students, ignite their curiosity, and teach them about the important role agriculture plays in their lives, every day!
The Great Veggie Challenge
What is it? Since the Canada Food Guide recommends that vegetables and fruit make up half your plate, we invite you and your students to use this free printable activity and supplementary resources to: -Explore the many wonderful vegetables we grow right here in Manitoba -Explore the many ways to eat vegetables -Challenge your students to eat a different vegetable every day for 10 days -Complete the challenge and enter to win prizes Game materials include: The Veggie Challenge Board – a one-page sheet that has a capital V on it made up of blank squares Veggie tiles – a one-page sheet that contains vegetables in squares that can be coloured in by students, and cut out and pasted onto the squares on the Challenge Board Activate suggestions : Explore students’ knowledge of vegetables. Have students make a list of as many different vegetables as they can. This can be done as a class, in small groups, by pairs of students, or individually. List the vegetables identified by students on the board. Decide which of the vegetables in the list are grown by Manitoba Farmers. (For good photos of some of the vegetables, go to the Peak of the Market website products page here.) List the different varieties of each vegetable that students can identify. Examples: Cabbage varieties could include green, red, Chinese, bok choy Lettuce varieties could include iceberg, green or red leaf lettuce, romaine, arugula Pea varieties could include green peas, snap peas, snow peas Discuss and list different ways that each vegetable is eaten. This can be done as a class, in small groups, by pairs of students, or individually. Examples: Tomatoes can be eaten raw, cooked, as tomato sauce for pasta or pizza, as ketchup, or as tomato soup. Remind students that the Canada Food Guide suggests that vegetables and fruit should fill half their plate whether they are eating breakfast, lunch, dinner, or a snack. Vegetables are packed with fibre, vitamins, minerals, and phytonutrients. Phytonutrients give vegetables their colour. Eating a variety of different coloured vegetables will provide you with the most nutrients and benefits from your diet. When it comes to vegetables, choose to ‘Eat the Rainbow’. Ways to play : The challenge is for students to eat at least one different vegetable each day for 10 days. Have students complete the 10-day veggie challenge either individually or as a class. Option 1: Individual Student Challenge -Provide each student with a copy of the Veggie Challenge Game Board and Veggie Tiles page. -Challenge them to eat a different vegetable each day for the next 10 days. Each day, they can record the vegetable they ate by colouring in and cutting out the vegetable on the Veggie Tiles sheet and pasting it on their Veggie Challenge board. -After 10 days, each student should have a Veggie Challenge board showing the 10 different vegetables they ate over the past 10 days. Option 2: Whole Class Challenge -Create a chart to record what vegetables were eaten by the students in your class for each of the next 10 days. -Challenge your students to try different vegetables from the ones eaten by students on the previous days. The challenge is to have at least 10 different vegetables listed in the chart by the end of the 10-day challenge. -Circle any vegetable(s) in the list from Day 2 to Day 10 that were not included in the previous days’ lists. (If by Day 8 or 9 the class has not identified 10 different vegetables on their chart, then consider buying and bringing in one or more different vegetables for the students to try.) -At the end of the 10 days, create groups of up to 10 students each. Provide each group with a Veggie Challenge board and the Veggie Tiles sheet. Have each group colour and cut out the 10 different vegetables they recorded in their class chart and paste them on to the Veggie Challenge board. Thank you to Peak of the Market, our 2022 Foundations of Manitoba Agriculture Presenting Sponsor!
The Radish Party
This inquiry provides students with an exciting opportunity to grow vegetables while watching each stage of growth. Through this they will learn that stem strength and colour, in addition to growth, are indicative of a healthy plant and healthy soil.
The Real Dirt on Farming
Our food has a story and it starts with Canadian farms. This full-colour magazine introduces students to some of the Canadian farm families living that story. The Real Dirt on Farming covers topics such as: the difference between growing crops conventionally and organically pesticide use animal housing and animal welfare environmental sustainability and climate change technology used in farming and more. The goal of this magazine is to help your students make informed decisions about the food they're eating. You can order class sets by filling in the order form (order one per student), or you can download it below:
The Real Dirt on Farming in the Classroom
The Real Dirt on Farming in the Classroom enables students to engage with the Real Dirt on Farming while examining its key areas – animal welfare, crops and plants, sustainability, agriculture policy, hot topics in our food system & more!
This Land is Your Land
Soil erosion is something farmers have to be very aware of. Through this activity students will learn about erosion on different types of soil. Then they will design and build a farm with the goal of protecting buildings and crops from being flooded or washed away. Students work creatively as farmers to prevent soil erosion and save their farm.
Timeline of Agricultural and Settlement Events
A list of Canadian agricultural events that have happened since the year 2,000,000 BCE. This list highlights the relationships between agriculture and settlement in Canada.
Weather to Farm Game - How Will Weather Affect Your Farm?
How will weather affect your farm? Dive into weather in this gamified experience! Students will play the role of the farmer and be presented with different weather scenarios, learning about how weather can affect our ability to grow food. While playing the game students will encounter scenarios related to and definitions of these weather terms: blizzard, climate, cold front, dew, drought, frost, frost free days, heat wave, humidex, rain, relative humidity, snow, warm front, weather, wind. The worksheet is great for students who are doing the program remotely or independently. Browser note: use the latest version of Chrome, Edge or Safari to play the Weather to Farm Game.
What is Agriculture?
‘What is Agriculture?’ is a short (~1 minute) animated video that will not only define agriculture but initiate student discussion and exploration about: • their connection to agriculture • the depth, breadth, and importance of agriculture • the many people who work in agriculture • the global nature of the agriculture industry This video is part of the Think Global – Agriculture & Our World resource (grade 7) and is an excellent way to introduce the Career Case/Agri-mission Game (grades 9 – 12).
What is the Ethical Choice for People, Animals and Planet?
How can today's food system meet the growing global demand to produce more food using fewer resources? This video incorporates the 'Earth as an apple' model to highlight the amount of soil available and looks at the amount of freshwater available. At the same time, it highlights the increasing need for food due to an increasing global population. Students can send questions about agriculture and food to www.bestfoodfacts.org and get them answered by experts.
You Are What You Eat!
Introduce your students to the topic of food science! They will identify which foods contain carbohydrates, fats, sugars, and/or proteins. These activities will help students to then apply their knowledge of what their food is made up of, to their daily food choices.
Your Life - Your Agriculture
Canadian agriculture has a lot to offer when it comes to careers - no matter what subjects your students are interested in! Show your students how they can take advantage of the opportunities agriculture has to offer. After all, it's your life and your agriculture.
connectAG
This online resource invites students in Grades 7 to 9 to explore Canadian agriculture by introducing them to farms and farmers across Canadian provinces, including the variety of agricultural commodities they produce and their link to our food system.
snapAG Information Sheets: Animal Care
From Antibiotics in Food, to Dairy Cows, explore a number of hot-button topics related to animal care!
snapAG Information Sheets: Farming Basics
From Organic Farming to Animal Breeding, explore a number of hot-button topics related to farming basics!
snapAG Information Sheets: Farming and the Environment
From Beef Protein to Carbon Sequestration, explore a number of hot-button topics related to farming and the environment!
snapAG Information Sheets: Food
From Global Protein Consumption to Milk Pasteurization, explore a number of hot-button topics related to food!
snapAG Information Sheets: Technology and Innovation
From the science behind GMOs, to GMOs around the world, explore a number of hot-button topics related to technology and innovations in agriculture and food.
snapAG Jeopardy
Are you looking for an engaging way to discuss hot topics affecting the agriculture agriculture with your students? This game will add a little bit of competition, and result in a whole lot of learning!
snapAG Website
What are GMOs and are they okay to eat? What does organic farming look like? How are animals like chickens or cattle raised? snapAG is a series of resources that invite students to explore the hot topics affecting the agriculture industry today. Topics range from organics, biotechnology, GMOs, livestock, and more. Explore what’s trending in agriculture in Canada by browsing the topics on the website.
For educators, please share the direct snapAG Website link with your students to access. No login required.
thinkAG
Did you know that 1 in 8 jobs in the Canadian workforce are in agriculture and food? In Manitoba, it’s 1 in 4! From engineering, research and processing to sales, finance and everything in between! As the world population continues to grow, the demand for skilled people to work in agriculture will grow as well. The thinkAG initiative from Agriculture in the Clasroom Canada helps students learn about the diverse and exciting career opportunities in the agriculture and food industry. Thinking outside of the box, thinkAG brings students into a world of agriculture education that inspires curiosity in the many career opportunities throughout our food system. By inspiring students to thinkAG and picture themselves working in agriculture and food, we’re helping to close the industry's labour gap. Not only that - we're building the next generation of informed consumers, influential thought leaders, and skilled Canadians. thinkAG is dedicated to those in their pre-teen to teenage years — but no matter who you are — there's something for you here! Whether you're a student, teacher, parent, or partner in progress, we encourage you to explore our resources to discover the diverse world of agriculture and food careers. It's never too early or too late to consider a career in this ever-growing industry
thinkAG 30-Day Challenge Calendar
30 days of thinkAG career exploration activities! AITC-C is challenging your classroom to explore the world of agriculture and food career opportunities with this Canada Career Month calendar (featuring November 2022). Feel free to continue using this resource beyond November for year-round suggestions on career education with students, both at home and at school.
thinkAG Career Case
Demonstrate the diversity and importance of careers in agriculture and food with this fun game, while supporting students in recognizing how their skills and interests can fit into careers in the industry. Students are faced with various challenges in which they work in groups to determine the careers needed to solve the case.
thinkAG Career Case: Explore Digital Agriculture Extension
What is “Digital Agriculture”, what are some careers involved, and how does agricultural technology compare to everyday technology? Explore the various tools and technologies used in agriculture and food production, and the leading-edge careers that exist within the compelling world of digital agriculture. *Facilitator Slide Deck Only*
thinkAG Career Exploration Activity Toolkit
The thinkAG Career Exploration Activity Toolkit is as collection of games and activities that allow students from grades 9-12 to explore career opportunities in agriculture and agri-foods and gives students a chance to try out some of the skills required for positions in agriculture.
thinkAG Career Exploration Toolkit
When you think of your future, think ag!
That’s the idea behind our thinkAG Career Exploration Activity Toolkit, a selection of activities that engage students in exploring the wide variety of career opportunities available in the agriculture and agri-food sector. The kit explores careers in the following areas: Agricultural Business Agricultural Mechanics Animal Science Environmental Services Food Science Natural Resources Plant Science Students learn how technical skills (e.g. calculating, data analysis, machine operation, etc.) and employability skills (e.g. communication, teamwork, critical thinking) are important in agri-food careers. The kit contains 12 activities, each of which take between 15 to 30 minutes to deliver.
thinkAG Initiative: Agriculture is...
Can you picture yourself in a career in agriculture and food? This series of videos showcases different career choices in agri-food with a focus on Art, Business, Engineering, Math, Science, and Technology.