Canola Crush

Grades K to 4.  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.   

Close to Home Music CD

Grades K to 3.  Features great agriculture songs for early years students. 

Leafy Spurge

Grade 4. Designed to be used with Science unit Habitats and Communities. This resource includes all of the worksheets and answer keys needed.  There is also a complimentary tag game for students to play.

Lunch Box for Plants
Grade 3. This kit is designed to give teachers background information, student activities, reproducible student worksheets and the tools for many of the suggested soil activities. It is a hands-on, student centered unit aimed at the Grade three level for the new science curriculum. Go ahead! Get dirty!

Available in French

Sheep Farmer's Food Chain

Grade 4.  This activity sheet is designed to be used with the Grade 4 Science unit - Habitats and Communities as a stand alone resource and/or a compliment to the Amazing Agriculture Adventure Sheep Station.

Soils Lesson Plans

Grade 3 These lessons were developed by the Department of Soil Science at the University of Saskatchewan.

All About Food
Grades 5 to 10. A series of 3 booklets including:

Agri-food Facts - A full colour pictorial booklet that captures the interesting, surprising and useful facts about the Canadian agri-food system.

Teacher's Guide - Make your own overheads!

Farm Visit Guide

Available in English and French

Booklets can be ordered. Shipping charges may apply.

Bread in a Bag/Butter in a Jar

Grade 5.  This fun activity is designed to be used with the Grade 5 Science unit - Properties of and Changes in Substances as a stand alone resource and/or as a compliment to the 'From Wheat to Bread' resource below and/or the Amazing Agriculture Adventure Wheat Grinding Station.

Canola Crush

Grades 5 to 8.  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.   

Crops in Class

Grade 5.  These downloadable resources focus on the growing of a soybean crop.  Lesson plans and worksheets are linked to curriculum in math, science and social studies. 

From Wheat to Bread

Grade 5. This jigsaw activity is designed to be used with the Grade 5 Science unit - Properties of and Changes in Substances as a stand alone resource and/or as a compliment to the Amazing Agriculture Adventure Wheat Grinding Station.

Name That Commodity

Grade 5 to adults.  A fun game that tests your knowledge of what everyday products are made of.  Agriculture is around you everyday. 

The Real Dirt on Farming II

Grades 7 to 12.  Do your students have questions about where their food comes from?  People in agriculture answer them with the straight goods.  This full colour pictorial booklet illustrates what Canadian Farming looks like.  Shipping charges may apply.

Available in French  

Also available as a free download.

English download here

French download here

Simple Machines are Everywhere on the Farm

Grade 5  This activity sheet is linked to the Forces and Simple Machines Science unit.  Students can identify simple machines found on farm machines, discover where their food comes from and see how science and technology have increased productivity on the farm.. 

All About Food
Grades 5 to 10. A series of 3 booklets including:

Agri-food Facts - A full colour pictorial booklet that captures the interesting, surprising and useful facts about the Canadian agri-food system.

Teacher's Guide - Make your own overheads!

Farm Visit Guide

Available in English and French

Booklets can be ordered. Shipping charges may apply.

Canola Crush

Grades 9 to 12.  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 Care of Laying Hens in Manitoba

Grades 9 to 12.  This resource includes a 5-minute DVD and a brochure by the same name.   We are offering a classroom presentation to city schools which would cover both production (based on the DVD & brochure), as well as egg nutrition. 

For more information contact Brenda at bbaz@eggs.mb.ca

Grade 10 Challenge

We have created a set of lesson plans for Grade 10 geography teachers, designed to make it easy to incorporate into their classes.

Teachers: start your students on the path to thinking critically about food production, then enter the Grade 10 Challenge and help them win money for themselves and their school.

Call (204) 235-2303 or

email info@manitobapork.com

Click here to see what it's all about!

Challenge of Change

Grades 9 to 12. Provides information and lesson plans/activities on agriculture and the people, environment, technology, biotechnology and the economy.

Food Inc. - An Alternative View

Grades 9 to 12.  If you are showing 'Food Inc.' the movie then here are some resources to use with your students to:

- provide different view points

- encourage critical thinking

- foster media literacy

- stimulate debate

This resource sheet includes links to American and Canadian sources of information, video and text that deal with the issues covered in the movie.

Name That Commodity

Grade 9 to adults.  A fun game that tests your knowledge of what everyday products are made of.  Agriculture is around you everyday. 

The Real Dirt on Farming II

Grades 9 to 12.  Do your students have questions about where their food comes from?  People in agriculture answer them with the straight goods.  This full colour pictorial booklet illustrates what Canadian Farming looks like.  Shipping charges may apply.

Available in French  

Also available as a free download.

The Real Dirt on Farming II Teacher's Guide

Grades 9 to 12.  Provides 7 classroom activities that are designed to be used with The Real Dirt on Farming II.  Shipping charges may apply.

Available in French

Also available as a free download.

The Real Dirt on Farming II Teacher's Guide Supplementary Resources

Grade 10 Geography.  This resource identifies curriculum fits for the activities in the Teacher's Guide and extra video and text materials to enhance and differentiate instruction of the unit 'Food from the Land'.

Free

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