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Composting with Worms
Welcome to the Composting with Worms Activity Kit! Get ready to dive into the fascinating world of vermicomposting with a variety of engaging activities suitable for all grade levels. From interactive games and hands-on exploration to comprehensive lesson plans, this kit offers a comprehensive learning experience covering topics that fit into social studies, science, and more! Perfectly paired with our upcoming virtual field trip on May 7th, let's dig in and explore the magic of composting with worms together!"
Fresh Stories
The new BC-AITC Fresh Stories provide education and activities related to BC grown fruits and vegetables (such as plums, kiwifruit, peaches, blueberries, tomatoes, peppers, and cucumbers) and milk products for kindergarten to grade 9 students.
Kareero
Kareero is a one-of-a-kind interactive interest assessment tool. Through the in-app development of a school gardening program, Kareero tracks your choices and actions to reveal your interest areas. Used in conjunction with Agriculture in the Classroom Canada’s thinkAG website, Kareero helps you explore careers that match your interests.
Real Farm Lives: Turnips, Carrots and Potatoes
Drawing from CropLife’s Real Farm Lives videos, which follows the McKennas, a multigenerational Prince Edward Island farm family, these interactive and engaging resources on carrots, turnips and potatoes aim to help Grade 10 and 11 students explore the value of Canada’s agriculture and food system. The resource includes a lesson plan on each of the featured vegetables, including a presentation and recipe.
#MyFoodChoice
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.
30 Favourite K-12 Agriculture & Food Resources
To celebrate BCAITC's 30 years of bringing agriculture and food education to BC classrooms, we've compiled a list of our 30 Favourite K-12 Agriculture and Food Resources! It includes most downloaded, top teachers' picks, and fun nostalgic lessons, unit plans, activities, storybooks, GIS applications, and more. Try them in your classroom today!
30 Favourite K-7 Agriculture Books
Since 1992, BCAITC has been bringing agriculture and food education to BC’s K-12 students! In celebration of our 30 years, we’ve rounded up our favourite K-12 books about agriculture and food. Happy reading!
30 School Garden Tips
In celebration of our 30 years, we've put together these 30 school garden tips. Discover ways to make your garden shine and cultivate success!
A Cow's Tale
Join Please, a Holstein dairy calf, as she grows up on Cowsville Dairy Farm. Please’s story answers your primary students’ questions about the fresh milk they’re drinking. Told in 13 chapters and including seasonal classroom activities and decorations this is the story of milk from moo to you.
A Scavenger Hunt Through BC's Agriculture Commodities
This virtual scavenger hunt lesson plan will help students learn about BC's agriculture commodities and the Agriculture Land Reserve through the online interactive Grow BC GIS map.
Agriculture Flipbooks
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.
Alex's First Seed
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!
Apples of British Columbia
Students will develop a deeper understanding of the most valuable edible horticulture crop in British Columbia - apples. Lessons explore the importance of knowing where food comes from, nutritional values, consumer concerns, and even apple tasting!
BC at the Table
These BC at the Table educator guides provide an introduction to student inquiry about BC's food system and how we produce, process, distribute, and acquire local food. Learn specifically about dairy, grains, produce, and salmon. The Cross-Curricular Connections document provides an overview of the curriculum connections to BC's food system and includes a matrix linking BC's food story by subject, grade, gig ideas, competencies, and content.
Beef It Up!
Introduce your classroom to this interdisciplinary unit plan for grades 4-7 on the beef industry in British Columbia.
Before the Plate
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.
Blossom's Big Job
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.
Canada's Agriculture Day Farm Doodle Activity
Here's a fun activity to celebrate Canada's Agriculture Day! Download this farm doodle activity page and share with your students. Thank you to Agriculture More Than Ever for this wonderful resource. Things you can do with this page: Colour the faces, find the animals that match, circle the two things that aren’t animals. Things to talk about: What noises do each of these animals make? Which animals have feathers? Which animals are your favourite? Why is that? Why do you think the sun and cloud are included?
Canada's Food Guide Activity Bank
Use the 2019 Canada Food Guide to explore topics such as health, nutrition, and agriculture production through a variety of activities designed to help students think critically about food.
Celebrating Liberation with a Promise
In this resource, students will have the opportunity to explore, observe and examine tulip bulbs. Lessons include planting bulbs, learning about the history of tulip farmers in the Netherlands, collecting data and studying the plant's growth cycle.
Challenging Conditions
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 the kit in French and English.
Common Ground: The Strawberry Project
Use this activity handbook to enhance learning around Common Ground: The Strawberry Project. The Strawberry Project was created to nurture relationships among students across the province and develop a greater understanding of native plant species. Note: The game must be downloaded from the internet link in order for all the game functions to work in the PowerPoint.
Compost Lesson
This hands-on activity provides students with a rich opportunity to investigate the interconnectedness of organisms by creating their own compost station out of a pop bottle.
Connecting the Canada Food Guide to Local Agriculture
This activity will familiarize students with Canada's Food Guide (2019) and the food messages presented in it. Students will also research local farms and food products, and use this information to create their own plate snapshot.
Corn and Black Bean Salsa
How far did your corn and bean salsa travel? Use the recipe included to make an easy and delicious salsa and then find out just how far those ingredients travelled to get to your classroom. This activity is a great way to engage students in a hands-on activity and get them to think about the importance of shopping local.
Dive into Aquaculture!
In this lesson, students will dive into learning about the species of animals in Canada’s aquaculture industry and learn more about aquaculture. They will also use their design skills to construct a model of a nursery facility.
Fall Ag-Activity Pack
Looking for fun and educational autumn agriculture and food activities? Check out our new Fall Ag-Activity Pack - filled with gardening ideas, games, crafts, recipes, and puzzles for grade 2-7 students! Enjoy!
FarmFood360° in the Classroom
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.
Find My Food - Ag Fish and Food Map Scavenger Hunt
Students will use the the Agriculture Fish and Food Map to answer questions and activities on the handout provided.
Food Gratitude Activity Sheet
Students can show their gratitude for BC’s food and workers. They are encouraged to colour, write thank you messages to food workers, and/or draw their favourite locally grown food on the Food Gratitude sheet. Then, they can show off completed sheets in their windows, on their fridges, or in another prominent area of their homes. Students can upload the completed Food Gratitude sheets to social media with the hashtag #FoodGratitudeBC to also show support.
Food Sustainability Tips from Chef Randle
Celebrate Earth Week with this handout that provides food sustainability tips from BCAITC Chef Trevor Randle on how to cook with a planet-friendly mindset. It includes eco-friendly best practices in relation to purchasing, food prep, cooking, serving, and clean-up.
Gathering Information About Wild and Cultivated Plants
Use this lesson plan in conjunction with the book 'A Day with Yayah' to enhance learning around cultivated and wild plants a develop a greater understanding of native plant species. Use the lesson with the Cultivated Plant Cards and Wild Plant Cards.
Grow BC
Grow BC is a great resource designed for teachers of all grades to show their students the diversity of our province’s commodities and the importance of BC’s agriculture to individuals and whole communities. Use the interactive GIS Map, and read the stories about BC commodities!
Guardians of the Grasslands
Guardians of the Grasslands is a short documentary that explores the current state of one of the world’s most endangered ecosystems - the grasslands in the Great Plains - and the role that cattle play in its survival. As we reach new critical levels in the loss of these iconic landscapes, there are important truths we must face about humanity’s relationship with the land and our food.
Harvest Bin Project: Creating a Harvest Bin Farmer’s Market
Students will learn to calculate the cost and pricing for the crops produced in their harvest bins. They will also learn how to run a successful marketing campaign and one day market event.
Harvest Bin Project: Design and Build a Better Farming Tool
This resource will enable students to design and build a better farming tool for use in the Harvest Bins that solves or improves upon a challenge they experienced during the farming process (planting, caring for the plants, or harvesting). Students will have to research the history of their tool, create a template for the design and outline how it will work and improve their farming experience.
Healthy Hybrids
In this lesson, students will learn about basic genetic principles - crosses through patterns of inheritance - and will be able to predict genotypes of organisms using Punnett Squares. Use the lesson in conjunction with the corresponding Healthy Hybrids PowerPoint presentation.
Healthy Kids Quest
A healthy, balanced lifestyle is particularly important for children, since habits established in childhood often stay with us for life. Take on the Healthy Kids Quest to encourage and empower your students to make healthy lifestyle choices. There are six modules, each with a different theme. All themes include an introductory lesson plan, a theme-specific challenge, one or more follow-up activities, and an information sheet for parents.
Introduction to Pulses
Pulses are the group of crops that includes dry beans, dry peas, chickpeas, and lentils. As a steady source of nutrition and soil sustainability, pulse crops play a major role in our global food security, a role which will only grow in the future. The following worksheets, created by Manitoba Pulse and Soybean Growers and Agriculture in the Classroom & MB, focus on the role that pulses play in advancing health and nutrition, food security and environmental sustainability.
Investigating Top Soil
The objective of this activity is to help students understand the importance of topsoil. Students will explore matter cycles while investigating a variety of topsoil conditions and will learn how these conditions can influence plant health.
Medicine Wheels and Health
Through the lens of health and wellness education, students will engage in learning about the Medicine Wheel. Students will discover the many uses of the Medicine Wheel, learn how to connect the Medicine Wheel to their own health through food, and will make a Medicine Wheel garden as a class.
Planet X
‘Out of this world’ opportunities in agriculture and food. This lesson focuses on the many professions within the Agriculture and Food sector. Students gain appreciation and knowledge of the multitude of professions in agriculture, while understanding the importance of everyday food production and sustainability to the global population. Student activities include weblinks that help them research various careers.
Plant Something Bee Friendly
Do your students want to know how they can help bees? Use this resource to teach them about the threats to bee populations, as well as ways that they can help support bees by planting bee-friendly plants.
Planting a Promise Handbook
Use this activity handbook to enhance learning around the Planting a Promise program. The activities help students explore the life cycle of a daffodil, from planting bulbs in the soil to the blooming of flowers and their final dormancy. Curriculum connections, background information, and presentation suggestions are included.
School Garden Resource
Step-by-step instructions on how start-up and maintain a school garden year-round. Complete with suggestions on crop varieties, soil recommendations and planting/harvest timelines.
Season Change Scavenger Hunt
Student's go on an outdoor scavenger hunt adventure to find Fall items such as leaves, seeds, and fruits. They will then connect the items they found on the scavenger hunt to the work done by farmers as seasons change. These discussions include harvest, differences in perennial and annual plants, need to maintain health of livestock in a cold winter, and more.
Sensational Snacks
In this activity, students will use all of their senses to study their snacks and make observations. They will think about how their food started from a tiny seed and understand the journey it took to get to the classroom.
Spotlight on Blueberries
Watch this 10-minute video tour of a BC blueberry farm and learn the art and science of growing blueberries! Use this video in conjuction with the Race Around the Blueberry Bush game and lesson plan. Enjoy!
Spotlight on Cranberries
Locally produced cranberries are harvested in October each year. Learn more about the wet harvest of cranberries in BC and how they are flooded in the bog then collected in this 2-part video series. Then, have fun with this fun curriculum-linked trivia activity to help students learn about the wet harvest of BC cranberries.
Spotlight on Eggs
Sunny-side-up! Watch this 10-minute video tour of a BC egg farm and learn the art and science of producing eggs. with the accompanying resource, students will have the opportunity to learn about the many fascinating features about eggs, which is one of BC’s important agricultural commodities. Students will also have the opportunity to learn about the nutritional value of eggs as well as information on egg parts, egg sizes and grading.
Spring/Summer Ag-Activity Pack
Looking for fun and educational agriculture and food activities? Developed for our 30-year celebration, our new Spring/Summer Ag-Activity Pack has gardening ideas, games, crafts, recipes, and puzzles for grade 2-7 students! Enjoy!
Spuds in Tubs - A Perfect Food Package
Students will investigate the nutritional value of potatoes, and use this information gathered to answer the question of whether humans can live exclusively off potatoes without suffering from nutrient deficiencies or health complications. Students will reveal their final results in an oral presentation to the class.
Sustainability in the Beef Industry in British Columbia
Students will begin to understand the importance of the beef cattle industry in British Columbia, including the products cattle produce, the production process from farm to plate, and how cattle can utilize and obtain energy from grass and other forage.
Take a Stand
This pre-assessment activity makes a great introduction to a module or unit that discusses food security, food systems, nutrition, sustainability, and agriculture practices. Student examine their own beliefs and knowledge about food in order to become aware of the role that agriculture plays in their lives.
The Delta Potato Story
This educational resource compliments the Spuds in Tubs program. Use it in your classroom to teach students about BC potatoes.
The Great Canadian Farm Tour: Season 1
Learn about Canada’s exciting agriculture and food story, and see what life is like for real Canadian farmers all across the country by taking your students on 11 virtual farm tours. This extraordinary learning opportunity will inspire your students, ignite their curiosity, and teach them about the important role agriculture plays in their lives, every day!
The Great Canadian Farm Tour: Season 2
We are back with another season of Great Canadian Farm Tour. Learn about Canada’s exciting agriculture and food story, and see what life is like for real Canadian farmers all across the country by taking your students on 11 virtual farm tours. This extraordinary learning opportunity will inspire your students, ignite their curiosity, and teach them about the important role agriculture plays in their lives, every day!
The Real Dirt on Farming in the Classroom
The Real Dirt on Farming in the Classroom enables students to engage with 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!
Tips for Fairs
This resource is intended to give some helpful tips on creating both entertaining educational displays and activities that will help fairs get their messages to the public.
Tips for Tours - Dairy
This handout serves as a handy guide for teachers who want to provide students with the farm tour experience. Includes everything a teacher may need to know before visiting a dairy farm - from planning and arranging the tour to what kinds of questions students may ask. Combined with the Tips for Tours resource for farmers, these guides ensure that both farmer and teacher are well prepared before embarking on or hosting a farm tour.
Tips for Tours - Greenhouse
This resource provides guidance on how to host a successful tour at a greenhouse.
Tips for Tours - Ranch
This resource provides guidance on how to host a successful tour on ranches.
Vegetarian Activity Bank
Investigate vegetarian diets with your students through this list of activities. Understand what motivates people to follow vegetarian eating plants, what nutritional requirements are needed for a vegetarian diet, and much more!
connectAG
This online resource invites students in Grades 7 to 9 to explore Canadian agriculture by introducing them to farms and farmers across Canadian provinces, including the variety of agricultural commodities they produce and their link to our food system.
snapAG Information Sheets: Animal Care
From Antibiotics in Food, to Dairy Cows, explore a number of hot-button topics related to animal care!
snapAG Information Sheets: Farming Basics
From Organic Farming to Animal Breeding, explore a number of hot-button topics related to farming basics!
snapAG Information Sheets: Farming and the Environment
From Beef Protein to Carbon Sequestration, explore a number of hot-button topics related to farming and the environment!
snapAG Information Sheets: Food
From Global Protein Consumption to Milk Pasteurization, explore a number of hot-button topics related to food!
snapAG Information Sheets: Growing Crops
From organic soil management to fertilizer use, explore a number of hot-button topics related to growing crops!
snapAG Information Sheets: Pesticides
From Neonics, to Organic and Synthetic Pesticides, explore a number of hot-button topics related to pesticides!
snapAG Information Sheets: Technology and Innovation
From the science behind GMOs, to GMOs around the world, explore a number of hot-button topics related to technology and innovations in agriculture and food.
snapAG Jeopardy
Are you looking for an engaging way to discuss hot topics affecting the agriculture agriculture with your students? This game will add a little bit of competition, and result in a whole lot of learning!
snapAG Website
What are GMOs and are they okay to eat? What does organic farming look like? How are animals like chickens or cattle raised? snapAG is a series of resources that invite students to explore the hot topics affecting the agriculture industry today. Topics range from organics, biotechnology, GMOs, livestock, and more. Explore what’s trending in agriculture in Canada by browsing the topics on the website.
For educators, please share the direct snapAG Website link with your students to access. No login required.
thinkAG 30-Day Challenge Calendar
30 days of thinkAG career exploration activities! AITC-C is challenging your classroom to explore the world of agriculture and food career opportunities with this Canada Career Month calendar (featuring November 2022). Feel free to continue using this resource beyond November for year-round suggestions on career education with students, both at home and at school.
thinkAG Career Case
Demonstrate the diversity and importance of careers in agriculture and food with this fun game, while supporting students in recognizing how their skills and interests can fit into careers in the industry. Students are faced with various challenges in which they work in groups to determine the careers needed to solve the case.
thinkAG Career Exploration Activity Toolkit
The thinkAG Career Exploration Activity Toolkit is as collection of games and activities that allow students from grades 9-12 to explore career opportunities in agriculture and agri-foods and gives students a chance to try out some of the skills required for positions in agriculture.
thinkAG Initiative: Agriculture is...
Can you picture yourself in a career in agriculture and food? This series of videos showcases different career choices in agri-food with a focus on Art, Business, Engineering, Math, Science, and Technology.