This kit provides interactive lessons, display materials and playing cards designed to help students explore Canada’s Food Guide for healthy eating.

The kit contains seven standalone activities that introduce students to:

• nutrition labels
• % daily value
• guidelines for sugar, salt and beverages
• the Eat Well plate
• the new protein food group

Included in the activities are a card game, with 6 playing decks for the entire class, and an assessment activity.

The activities connect to specific learning outcomes in grade 5 science, as well as middle years food and nutrition, and provide cross-curricular connections to math.

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.

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.

With your order, you will receive physical supplies for the activities:

• • Teacher Guide: instructions and curricular connections to help you use the activities in your lessons.

• • 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.

Celebrate the richness, diversity, and ingenuity of Canadian agriculture with this full anthology of the Great Canadian Farm Tour. This complete collection brings together every stop from coast to coast to coast, showcasing the people, practices, and stories that shape our nation’s food system. From innovative family farms to culturally rooted traditions and cutting‑edge sustainability, this series offers an inspiring, panoramic look at the farms and farmers who nourish Canada.

Healthy Foods from Healthy Farms is available for Grades 1-3 and for Grades 3-5. 

This resource includes:

• A 3-part video 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. Younger students make a folding plate and older students make a fortune teller (see photo above). This activity is available both as a physical kit (only in MB) or as a downloadable:
• Class kit  - comes with a teacher guide and enough activity and sticker sheets for 25 students (only in MB). 
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• Downloadable resource - comes with a teacher guide and all the files you need to print out for your students to cut and paste their food onto a plate or fortune teller. 

Get growing in your classsroom with this pea microgreen kit. You don't need grow lights or a green thumb to enjoy this quick set of activities!

Students will plant, grow, observe, measure and eat pea microgreens, identify where pea microgreens fit on the Canada Food Guide plate and the nutrition they provide, and explore pea-based products and map the pea’s journey from field to plate.

Activities included in this kit:

•    Activity 1: Grow a Sprout Head
•    Activity 2: Eat Your Microgreens
•    Activity 3: Roots vs. Shoots
•    Activity 4: Amazing Pea Pathways

Materials included in this kit (for 25 students):

•    Clear plastic cups (1 / student)
•    Peat moss pucks (1 / student)
•    Speckled pea seeds (10 / student)
•    Shipping labels (1 / student)
•    Worksheet master copies

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.

Learn about agriculture in Manitoba playing Bingo on your next road trip with these fun colouring pages!

Download a different card for each player, grab some colouring supplies, and hit the road for an epic game of agriculture bingo. 

Flip, flip, flip – Students can colour, cut and staple these booklets, then flip them and watch them become magically animated!

Watch the bean sprout and grow, see how potatoes grow or watch how soil is formed.

Colour, cut out, and fold your own paper fortune teller! Students can then quiz each other and learn something new about agriculture.

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.

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.

Put your students into the shoes of a new agriculture reporter. They will learn about agriculture while they search for the next big news story for their editor.

Students will be guided through activities to:

• Read and problem solve to classify different Canadian crops.
• Use multi-step math skills to figure out how much seed is needed to plant each of the farmer’s fields.
• Explore charts and graphs to answer questions around how well the farmers' crops yielded.
• See simple machines in action on the farm and explore what makes them work.
• Lay out and write a cover-worthy story relating to agriculture that will keep readers engaged and informed.

Developed by a Manitoba teacher and provided free to teachers by Manitoba Canola Growers via Teachers Pay Teachers.

Students can use this scavenger hunt in their home to find the dozens of agricultural products they use every day, and not just food!

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. 

Download these fun agriculture-related word searches for your students to try!

Worms play a very important role in maintaining healthy soil so that we can grow healthy food. Get to know Alex the worm in this fun, educational book to learn all about this topic!

Test your knowledge of beef cows with a word search, fact find crossword, and a pop quiz. Includes an answer key for teachers.

This activity sheet pairs perfectly with our Follow the Beef Farmer tour video and livestream Q&A.

Use this activity to help students visualize and understand agricultural land use.

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.

Agricultural Biodiversity and Water guides students through an exploration of biodiversity (biological diversity), which refers to the variety and variability of all living organisms (animals, plants, and micro-organisms) on Earth. Activities take students deeper into understanding of:

• How to identify agrobiodiversity
• Biotic and abiotic parts of agroecosystems
• The benefits and cost of biodiversity
• Ecological succession in a pasture
• Plant competition in a biodiverse environment
• A soil quality study
• How farming activities affect ecosystems and biodiversity

Biodiversity and Water takes 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. Activities lead students into an exploration of:

• The water-cycle
• Your local watershed
• Erosion
• Identifying salinity
• Capillary action
• How roots stop soil erosion
• Assessing the health of a riparian area

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.

This hands-on learning activity allows students to make delicious bread and butter using simple household tools. A great opportunity to learn about micro-organisms and basic chemical changes.

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.

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.

This activity invites students to take a deeper look at news stories from across Canada, news releases from the agriculture industry, and more to gain a richer understanding of the challenges confronting Canada’s dairy supply chain.

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.

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

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 - 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.

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.

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.