Kindergarten Social Studies Time and Place: Exploring the dynamic relationships between people, place, and time supports understanding...

As new food trends gain traction—from high-protein diets to GLP-1-friendly eating—many of us think about grocery store shelves or...

Grade 3 Science Earth Systems: Understandings of the living world, Earth, and space are deepened by investigating natural systems and...

Grade 3 Social Studies Time and Place: Exploring the dynamic relationships between people, place, and time supports understanding of...

🌱🎨 It’s Springtime on the Farm! 🚜🌼 Farmers are busy prepping the fields and getting ready to plant this year’s crops — and we’ve got...

Celebrate springtime with these fashionable chicks! Materials for chicks: Yarn, in any colour Lightweight cardboard or card stock,...

Hi Sprouts! When you write something using information that you found somewhere else, like in a book or on a website, it's important to...

Do you feel like a better version of yourself around good friends? Plants also love being in good company! Intercropping is the...

This learning module introduces students to conservation agriculture practices and their importance in responding to climate and weather...

Food safety is a responsibility for all. Consider where you get your food. When you buy an apple from a grocery store, first you run it under running water before taking a bite. At a restaurant, a chef cooks chicken to the perfect temperature before serving it to guests. Whether it comes from the grocery store down the block or it is served at a fancy restaurant, we take these steps to make sure our food is safe. But as consumers, we only see the last stage of the food value

Farmers make about fifty key decisions every cropping season. These choices are vital to the efficiency of the farm, and one poor decision can cost farmers as much as $50 per acre.(1) Precision farming assists the decision-making process by gathering and analyzing crop data. This data informs decisions regarding what type of seeds to plant and where fertilizer or crop protection products might need to be dispensed. This saves the farmer labour and supply costs, decreases envi

Biodynamic agriculture is a form of alternative farming that brings many traditional, eco-friendly, and holistic farming strategies into one inclusive method. The main focus of biodynamic farming is to view the farm as a living organism. Treating the farm as one organism, or in today's words—an ecosystem, helps create symbiotic relationships that both increase outputs and regenerate the environment.(1) This form of agriculture has been adopted worldwide and is considered orga

In the search for more sustainable methods of food production, reducing the carbon footprint while also increasing the amount of food we can grow is the main obstacle. Creating more food with less energy for a rapidly increasing population is going to be one of the largest hurdles humanity jumps in the next century. One new method of sustainable farming that is being developed to help resolve this issue is hydroponics. Hydroponics is a form of soilless indoor farming that uti

As long as humans have traded together, food markets have flourished. The earliest markets were established in ancient Persia and spread throughout the Middle East and into Europe. In England, the Domesday Book recorded the existence of fifty markets at which food was sold, although many historians think this is a very conservative number. By the thirteenth century, the number had risen to 356, and a hundred years later it had reached 1,746. Ancient food markets played a sig

This super simple craft will have birds flocking to your yard!

Holiday meals around the world: Roast turkey dinner with all the trimmings (Canada) Roasted turkeys, often adorned with decorative paper “booties” on the drumsticks, are a staple main course at Christmas feasts in Canada. The stuffing typically features a mix of sausage meat, dried fruits like apricots, prunes, and raisins, along with nuts, onion, celery, salt, pepper, and a variety of spices and herbs. Feast of the Seven Fishes (Italy) An Italian-American Christmas Eve tradi

Santa's Tractor Adventure. Print out and colour.

Try making these adorable Christmas tree ornaments with the kids. It's fun, easy and you only need a few materials to get started! General Instructions for all Ornaments: 1) Patterns are on an 8 ½ x 11 piece of paper. Print off each one on an 8 ½ x 11 sheet of paper to achieve proper size. 2) Cut out pattern pieces and trace onto card stock to make a sturdy re-usable pattern. Cut out. 3) Trace each piece onto Craft foam and cut out just inside the pencil lines so no pencil ma

Typically served with a side of mashed potatoes, gravy, and cranberry sauce, turkey is usually the main star of Christmas dinner. Many countries around the world have a rich history of eating turkey on this special occasion. The turkeys we know today originally came from the Wild Turkey, a species that is native only to the Americas, and were domesticated over many years by the indigenous Mexicans.(4,5) British merchants bought them from Spanish conquistadors who brought them

With Christmas break just around the corner, there's plenty of time to spend time with family and friends. A great way to spend it is with a holiday themed activity sheet—play tic tac toe, design your own snow globe, and colour in some fun-loving penguins!