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.
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• 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!

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.

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.

Learn about farm animals and their babies with this fun crossword. Answers are included for early spellers.

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.

This 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

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 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 Make Your Own Salad Dressing Using Canola Oil! resource.

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.

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:

• Book: grade-appropriate and focused on building agricultural literacy (FR/EN) 
• 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. (FR/EN)

  • 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. (FR/EN)

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

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.

Take a virtual trip with your students to New Bothwell, Manitoba where Jason Rempel and his family will explore everything to do with wheat.

Students will:

• Explore a Manitoba wheat farm to discover where their food comes from.
• Learn about the life cycle of wheat and the conditions needed to grow a healthy wheat crop.
• Identify what foods and nutrients come from wheat.
• Discover how a combine harvester, and all the simple machines in it, work to harvest grain.
• Discover why Manitoba's natural resources are ideal for wheat farming.

Extend your students' learning with our Simple Machines are Everywhere on the Farm companion resource.

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.