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AITC has bilingual resources, lesson plans, free downloads, learning kits and more.

To order a resource send an email to admin@aitc.mb.ca specifying the resource and quantity wanted and your name and mailing address.

Resources are grouped alphabetically by grade levels. 

Choose the grade level that you are interested in.

Grades K - 4         Grades 5 - 8          Grades 9 - 12

Also check out our list of recommended Agriculture Websites designed for student use.

Interactive Websites             Information Websites

Videos

Grade K - 4
Resource Item Image Price

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.   

PDF Instructional Guide

$20

Click link to order

Close to Home Music CD

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

Free

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.

 

Teacher Resource

Student Worksheet

Answer Key

Tag Game

Free Download

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

Lunch Box for Plants $20.00

Soils Lesson Plans

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

Free Download
 

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Grades 5 - 8
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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.

 

 

 

 

Download

Agri-food Facts

Teacher's Guide

Farm Visit Guide

Downloads available in English

Free Booklet

or Download

Biodiversity Resources

Grade 7: Agricultural Ecosystems
Download here

Grade 8: Biodiversity and Water
Download here
agrobiodiversity and agricultural ecosystems

Free

Booklet

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.   

PDF Instructional Guide

$20

Click link to order

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. 

Lesson 1 - Fundraising decision

Lesson Plan       Worksheet
Lesson 2 - What crop is for your class?     Lesson Plan        Worksheet
Lesson 3 - What is an acre?

Lesson Plan        Worksheet
Lesson 4- What does it cost to plant a crop? Lesson Plan        Worksheet
Lesson 5 - Thank you letters

Lesson Plan
Lesson 6 - Equipment fair

Lesson Plan        Worksheet
Lesson 7 - Tracking the weather

Lesson Plan
Lesson 8 - Soybeans 101 In class presentation
Lesson 9 -What does it cost to harvest a crop?

Lesson Plan         Worksheet
Lesson 10 - Cheque presentation

Lesson Plan         Worksheet

Free Download
Discover Agriculture Science
Curriculum Activities

Grades 5 & 6 (Fr. and Eng.) The Science Curriculum Activities book contains lessons that explore the science of agriculture with comprehensive, curriculum specific activities. Weeds, seeds, crops and bugs are just a few of the topics included in the activities. Each lesson lists the materials required and gives easy to follow instructions.

Discover Agriculture

Free
Discover Agriculture Science Projects
Grades 5 & 6 (Fr. and Eng.) The Science Projects book is a companion book of fifty agriculture oriented science fair projects. There are fun questions which encourage the use of scientific method, and provide excellent ideas for science fair projects.
Discover Agriculture Free
Leafy Spurge
Grade 7. Assign your students to be detectives on case file Sci SLO 7-1-05-06, Leafy Spurge Alien Invasion.It is their job to compile a file for use in the capture and arrest of Leafy Spurge.  They will use the checklist provided as a guide to help them complete the file.

Teacher Resource
Student Worksheet
Answer Key

Free Download
Manitoba Safari Game
Grades 5 & 6, (Fr. and Eng.) Board game which allows players to travel across Manitoba on a safari for a variety of Manitoba food products.
Manitoba Safari Game

Free

Name That Commodity

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

Powerpoint Game

Instructions

Answer Key

Score Sheet

Free Download

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

Free

Booklet

or

Free

Download

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Grades 9 - 12
Resource Item Image Price

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.

 

 

 

 

Download

Agri-food Facts

Teacher's Guide

Farm Visit Guide

Downloads available in English

Free Booklet

or Download

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.   

PDF Instructional Guide

$20

Click link to order

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

Download Page 1

Download Page 2

Free Download

Free

Resource

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!

 

 

Free

Resource

Leafy Spurge
Grade 10. Assign your students to research Leafy Spurge like a scientist.  There are many good sources for the students to source including a specific website.

Teacher Resource
Student Worksheet
Answer Key

Free Download

Name That Commodity

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

Powerpoint Game

Instructions

Answer Key

Score Sheet

Free Download

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.

English download here

French download here

Free

Booklet

or

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.

English download here

French download here

Free Booklet

or

Free

Download

Other Agriculture in the Classroom Resources

British Columbia

Alberta

Saskatchewan

Ontario

Newfoundland

Nova Scotia

Prince Edward Island

 
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Interactive Websites

Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada

- Games, videos, information

AAFC Student's Corner

Canadian Wheat Board

- Games, puzzles, information

www.prairiewheat.ca

MB Agriculture Food & Rural Initiaitves

- Game

Where's Agriculture

Nutrients for Life - Canada

- Interactive simulation

www.nutrientsforlife

Ontario Agri-Food Education Inc.

- Games, crafts, trivia, information, virtual farm tours

www.farmsfoodfun.com

 

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Information Websites

Manitoba Canola Growers

- Resources, canola information including nutrition

www.mcgacanola.org/res_educational.cfm

Manitoba Pork

- Information on the pork industry, animal care, environmental initiatives, producer videos and the Grade 10 challenge

www.manitobapork.com

Agriculture in the Classroom - Canada

-link to all of the provincial Agriculture in the Classroom organizations

http://www.aitc.ca/

University of Manitoba

- Bruce D. Campbell Farm and Food Discovery Center

http://umanitoba.ca/afs/discoverycentre/

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Videos

Canadian Seed Industry

- 'The Canadian Seed Industry Has a Plan' is a 4:26 min. look at the challenges facing the agriculture industry and a plan to meet those challenges.

 

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