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.

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). 
  or
• 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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Download these free printable crosswords to help your students learn more about crops and animals raised in Manitoba.

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 Farmer!

This poster by Egg Farmers of Canada depicts and explains the anatomy of an egg, including nutritional facts and the nutritional value label.

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.

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.

This resource allows students to experience what it is like to work on a Canadian grain farm.

Students will be guided through activities to:

• Use math skills to layout their fields
• Read descriptions of different crops grown in Canada and match those to pictures based on the description.
• Read and chart information about different soil types.
• Explore the different stages of growth for Canada's #1 crop, Canola.
• Investigate possible solutions to soil erosion from a farmer’s point of view.
• Learn about farm equipment used in grain farming.
• Engage with a farmer if the class chooses to take part in the bonus activity.

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

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.

Go on a tour of Andre Steppler's farm without leaving the classroom!

Students will:

• Explore a Manitoba beef farm to discover where their food comes from and how it is produced.
• Identify all the components of an animal habitat and how the farmers provide those components for their cows.
• 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 Will. Be sure to check out the Follow the Beef Farmer Kahoot and All About Beef companion resources. 

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:
  • provides all the components; food, water, living space, shelter and more, to create a great habitat for the dairy cows
  • 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, and a Kahoot is included as a fun, interactive assessment activity.

This is a great companion resource for the Design a Dairy Cow Habitat resource.

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:
  • provide all the components; food, water, living space, shelter and more, to create a great habitat for their hogs.
  • 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.

Explore Manitoba sheep farms without leaving the classroom! This farm tour and livestream Q&A visits Anna Hunter and her family at Longway Homestead, as well as Harold and Sherry Bosma at Dusty Ridge Ranch.

Students will:

• Explore a Manitoba sheep farm to discover where their food comes from.
• Discover all the components of an animal habitat and more that farmers provide for their sheep.
• Identify that Canadian farmers manage food chains in a sustainable way to produce enough good quality, nutritious safe food for the world's people to eat.

Students can complete the companion resource Sheep Farmer Food Chain for additional learning.

Help your students show support for those working in our food supply chain with our rebranded "Thank you for our food!" activity sheets!

Ask students to think about all the folks along the food supply chain who continue to work every day to provide safe and healthy food to Canadians. 

Did you know Manitoba grows two types of barley, two-row barley and six-row barley?

Barley is a cereal crop that is harvested for the seeds. Barley is rich in protein, vitamins, minerals and amino acids that help us stay healthy. We use barley in human food, like beer, bread and pasta. It is also used in animal food.

The Foundations of Manitoba Agriculture 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.

View all the Foundations of Manitoba Agriculture resources and related activities here.

Did you know beef cattle are ruminants, meaning they have a four-chambered stomach?

Cattle used for milking, meat and locomotion became one of the major economic drivers of Manitoba’s economy by early European settlers. Beef cattle can live comfortably outdoors all year round, meaning they can adapt to Manitoba’s cold winters. In addition, beef provides us with many nutrients like zinc, iron and protein.

The Foundations of Manitoba Agriculture 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. 

View all the Foundations of Manitoba Agriculture resources and related activities here.

Did you know that bison ranching helps preserve the last remaining native grassland habitats on the prairies?

Bison, also known as the buffalo, are native to North America and once roamed wild in Manitoba. They were a major source of food and materials for Indigenous Peoples. Many farmers across Western Canada raise bison today.

The Foundations of Manitoba Agriculture 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.

View all the Foundations of Manitoba Agriculture resources and related activities here.