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Alex's First Seeds
This story explores how worms help keep soil healthy for food production. It educates on composting, soil, environment and agriculture. It showcases the role of worms growing vegetables through a cartoon character Alex the worm and his family and friends. Alex learns his role and responsibility of growing his first seed.
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Alex's first seed
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Before the Plate
Before the Plate (1 hr 30 min) attempts to close the gap in perception between the urban consumer and farming in Canada. Modern consumers are increasingly interested in where and how their food gets to them, but accurate information isn’t always easy to come by and often feels out of reach. Before the Plate follows young farmers and industry experts in order to show the general population what a modern Canadian farm operation looks like, and answer the most pressing questions consumers have about their food.
Before the Plate teacher guide
Before the Plate student guide
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Celebrating Liberation with a Promise
In this resource, students will have the opportunity to explore, observe and examine tulip bulbs. They will then identify various locations in their school yard that are suitable to plant their bulbs based on various criteria. The students will select growing locations in their schoolyard to represent different growing conditions. By monitoring and collecting data from these locations during the plant’s growth cycle, the student’s understanding of the tulip cycle will be enhanced.
Dutch Liberation Teacher Guide
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Challenging Conditions
This activity 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. Emphasis is placed on quality of life, and the effects of issues such as hunger, health, conflict, gender dynamics, environment and climate change.
Challenging Conditions Eng
Challenging Conditions Fren
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Cowspiracy: An Alternative View
If you are showing 'Cowspiracy' the movie then here are some resources to use with your students to provide different viewpoints, encourage critical thinking, foster media literacy and stimulate debates. This resource includes curriculum connections, a lesson plan with student activities and background information.
Cowspiracy Teacher Guide
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Eat Well: Helping Canadians Make Healthy Food Choices
Have your students explore Canada's new nutrition facts table and discover how to make healthy food choices using % Daily Value amounts and guidelines, especially for sugar, sodium and beverages. This resource can either be printed or filled in electronically.
Eat well
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Reggie’s Technology Adventure
Students will explore currently used technologies in agriculture and food production through the story “Reggie’s Technology Adventure”, and then use this knowledge to design their own model “Farm of the Future” including farm layout and production, technologies in use, and careers needed on this farm.
Reggie’s Technology Adventure eng
Reggie’s Technology Adventure fr
