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 is a card game 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.

We’ve summarized all our available resources and programs and where they fit your curriculum onto one page Grade at a Glance sheets.

Grade at a Glance sheets are available at the links below for:

• your grade level if you are a K – Grade 8 teacher
• your subject area if you are a Grade 9 – 12 teacher or Human Ecology teacher

All resources and programs are hyperlinked so you can easily access more information about them.

These Grade at a Glance sheets will be regularly updated with new resources or programs as they become available so that staying current with what we have to offer you is easy.

Last updated November 2023

Join us on Season 4 of the Great Canadian Farm Tour to learn about the diversity in food and agriculture that can be found in Canada. Watch tours of different farms and food facilities while also exploring more in the activity booklets.

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.
  or
• 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!

In this e-learning resource, The Real Dirt on Farming in the Classroom enables students to engage with the latest 6th Edition of The Real Dirt on Farming while examining its key areas – animal welfare, crops and plants, sustainability, agriculture policy, hot topics in our food system & 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.

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!

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.

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.

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

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.

Your students will love watching videos featuring real Manitoba farm families, courtesy of Great Tastes of Manitoba. Then, using one of the ingredients found on the farm, they'll use the supplied recipe to make a dish.

We've included live links to videos in each of the recipe sheets, making these ideal for at home remote learning. They can also be used in human ecology class or any other class where you might make a meal together.

There are also links to snapAG fact sheets to take their agriculture education to the next level!

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.

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 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.

Weather — warm and cold fronts, precipitation, humidity, wind — it not only affects the daily life of a farmer but the ability to grow our food.

On this video tour we join Korey Peters, from Herbsigwil Farms in southern Manitoba, to learn how Korey uses his weather station and technology to make decisions daily and throughout his growing season about the best ways to care for his crops and livestock so he can produce the best food possible.

The livestream includes the video and a Q&A with Korey.

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.