Through this activity, students investigate the papermaking process by trying it themselves. Students are thrilled to find that they can make paper and that their product is practical, as well as beautiful.
Mike Wilson, Precision Agriculture Specialist with Thompsons Limited gives a presentation at the Farms.com Precision Agriculture Conference. He shares his e...
The label on a pesticide product tells the reader how to use it. Most importantly, it outlines how to use the product safely. This video highlights some important parts of a pesticide label, also known in Canada as Crop Protection products or Pest Control products.
A short video on how manual transmission work.
Students will understand that farmers have to complete many different types of tasks for their jobs and why those tasks are important.
This will be a fast paced introduction to fun facts and plant stories guaranteed to enrich your workshops and pique your participantâs interest! Expect a plethora of ideas, activities and extensions for PLT activities including historic uses, facts and mathematical explanations.
"Marketplaces is a cutting-edge digital learning experience to equip students with an understanding of how the market works and the confidence to participate in it. Through an engaging, gamified learning experience, students blend economic concepts with investing topics to learn how the government, corporations, and individuals come together to participate in the financial marketplace."
This video explains the baling process of our new generation of high capacity round balers. In addition to explaining the baling process and showing the baler making a bale from a cut a way view it also highlights several key features that are unique to our baler such as the rotary stuffer, Quad Cylinders System (QCS), hydraulically operated drive de-clutcher, simplistic mesh wrap system and hydraulic bale kicker.
Students utilize their understanding of ecosystems, economic cost, and culture to make a stewardship decision.
Ressource numérique de la province de Québec: de nombreuses vidéos présentant de l'enseignment de compétences essentielles en langue et en calcul, organisées par niveau scolaire. Du matériel pour les Sciences et les Sciences humaines au niveau secondaire. Comprend aussi des séries « Astuces pour réussir » destinées aux jeunes!
Did you know that McDonald's World Famous Fries® are made with 100% Canadian potatoes? This video features the Levesque Family, just one of the many Canadian potato farmers working to provide McDonald's with potatoes. Check out our interview to learn more about their story, life on the farm, and which qualities to look for in the perfect potato.
Students will observe the power of seeds by germinating soybeans in plaster of Paris.
In this activity, students pose several hypotheses for what will happen if you continue heating or supplying energy to the hot and cold planet models (Mercury, Mars, Venus, and Earth) and then test their hypotheses using a spreadsheet based radiation balance model. The activity supports investigation of a real world challenge, experimenting with life support conditions for Mars at an Arctic outpost. The interactive model runs are conducted using a Java applet. This resource includes student worksheets, assessment questions and a teacher's guide. This is Activity B in module 2, Modeling hot and cold planets, of the resource, Earth Climate Course: What Determines a Planet's Climate? The course aims to help students to develop an understanding of our environment as a system of human and natural processes that result in changes that occur over various space and time scales.
Students will model the atomic structure of common elements found in soils, determine an atom's valence electrons, draw Lewis electron dot diagrams, and discuss the basic principles of element bonding.
The Saskatchewan Safety Council's short video about the hazards caused by moving machinery parts.
This informational text introduces students to Mt. Erebus, a volcano located on Ross Island, just off the coast of Antarctica. Mt. Erebus is the world's southernmost active volcano. The reading level is at Kindergarten through grade one. This is a PDF containing the informational text and a glossary.
"The Ministry of Education is pleased to announce that My Assessment Toolkit, a companion document to the Supporting Student Assessment in Saskatchewan resource, is now available. Teachers are encouraged to access this new resource on the Saskatchewan Curriculum website by selecting Quick Links/Assessment Supports/Supporting Student Assessment in Saskatchewan/My Assessment Toolkit.The purpose of My Assessment Toolkit is to provide teachers with an array of assessment strategies to consider when planning multiple and varied opportunities for students to demonstrate their learning. A collection of 100 effective assessment strategies is available in My Assessment Toolkit. The Ministry of Education can support implementation of My Assessment Toolkit upon request.
The #MyFoodChoice resource is an inquiry-based resource answering the overall question of "How can I make informed food choices?" This resources has videos, interactive student sheets, approved resources and more. It is aimed at grade 9-12 students in subjects such as science, food studies, English, agriculture, social studies, humanities to name a few.
Métis culture will continue to be lived and celebrated when we pass our knowledge on to the generations who follow us.
Everyone is on a learning journey. While exploring historical and contemporary Métis ways of knowing and doing, these learning packages provide knowledge and understanding for students and teachers. Topics include: Traditional Harvesting Methods, Geographical Terms, Music and Dance, Conversational Michif, Beading, and Traditional Foods. The lesson plans and videos highlight Knowledge Keepers walking in the tall prairie grass, Elders preparing la galette (bannock), students learning Michif numbers, and family greeting each other for tea. We hope these resources will assist you in your learning.
This video explores how solar energy can be used in agriculture production.