This resource is designed to support educators in fostering lifelong learning during Education Week and beyond, across various grade levels from Kindergarten to Grade 12. It includes engaging activities tailored to different age groups, focusing on themes of growth, exploration, and personal development.For younger students (K-2), activities like Learning Journey Maps and projects connecting Plants, Growth & Learning encourage them to visualize their educational milestones and understand the nurturing process. For Grades 3 to 6, resources such as Learning Timelines and Career Exploration projects help students reflect on their growth and investigate future career paths.In Grades 7 to 9, the Career Day Fair or Gallery Walk promotes collaboration and public speaking skills through research presentations. For older students (10-12), a PBL example project template offers a framework for project-based learning, while the Reflection Wall activity encourages meaningful self-reflection.Overall, this resource equips teachers with a variety of tools to engage students in their learning journeys, aligning with the theme of Education Week and empowering them to discover their passions and develop essential skills for the future.

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.

An Agriculture Video resource! We've gathered 19 educational videos about agriculture and provided them to you in a single document. A brief overview, grade range, title and topic, as well as the video link are included for each of the videos. Supplement your current teachings with an engaging video for students on topics such as soil, plants, food, and animals!

An Agriculture Video resource! We've gathered 10 educational videos about agriculture and provided them to you in a single document. A brief overview, grade range, title and topic, as well as the video link are included for each of the videos. Supplement your current teachings with an engaging video for students on topics such as soil, plants, food, and farming!

This lesson accompanies "Alex's First Seed DOWNLOAD". A storybook for early elementary students about a little worm who helps grow his very first plant. This fun, educational book will help students to learn about the important role worms play in maintaining healthy soil to grow healthy food. Companion resources: "Alex's First Seed Activity Book" "Alex's First Seed Read Along".

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.

Finding and eradicating invasive plants is a tough job that requires constant vigilance. County-scale maps that show where invasive plants are and where they have the potential to spread in the future are helping on-the-ground efforts to build the resilience of natural vegetation.

Ask Dr. Universe is a science-education project from Washington State University. Kids can send Dr. Universe any question they may have about history, geography, plants, animals, technology, engineering, math, culture, and more.

In this visually dazzling talk, Jonathan Drori shows the extraordinary ways flowering plants -- over a quarter million species -- have evolved to attract insects to spread their pollen: growing 'landing-strips' to guide the insects in, shining in ultraviolet, building elaborate traps, and even mimicking other insects in heat. Jonathan Drori commissioned the BBC's very first websites, one highlight in a long career devoted to online culture and educational media -- and understanding how we learn. A quiz, thought provoking question, and links for further study are provided to create a lesson around the 14-minute video. Educators may use the platform to easily "Flip" or create their own lesson for use with their students of any age or level.

This Activity Book accompanies Blossom's Big Job, a story about a busy honey bee on a mission to pollinate her flowers until they mature into fruit.

Students will have the chance to be busy bees like Blossom as they learn about the life cycle of a pumpkin plant through planting and sprouting their own pumpkins. Included in this lesson plan is a craft activity of the life cycle of a pumpkin plant as the students' final Assessment of Learning.

A guided reading lesson to accompany "Blossom's Big Job DOWNLOAD"! In this charming storybook, a hard working bee will encourage trust and perseverance while your students learn about pollination and how honey is made. Companion resources: "Blossom's Big Job Activity Book" "Blossom's Big Job Read Along"

Interactive Storybook Lesson: Blossom’s Big Job is about a busy honey bee on a mission to pollinate her flowers until they mature into fruit. Readers follow Blossom as she helps collect nectar for her hive and works hard to pollinate her flowers.

After reading “Blossom’s Big Job”, students will have the chance to experience hands on pollination through participation in two activity stations. These activities are designed to promote physical activity, allow students to question and reflect on their experiences through the Check, Connect, Reflect model of assessment, and promote experiential learning.

Enjoy a fun read along of this charming storybook about a hard working bee that will encourage trust and perseverance while your students learn about pollination and how honey is made. Be sure to also download "Blossom's Big Job DOWNLOAD", "Blossom's Big Job Guided Reading Lesson" and "Blossom's Big Job Activity Book".

Blossom’s Big Job is about a busy honey bee on a mission to pollinate her flowers until they mature into fruit. Readers follow Blossom as she helps collect nectar for her hive and works hard to pollinate her flowers.

Students are introduced to the work of botanists and botanical illustrators, and specifically to their race to make records of endangered plant species around the world. Students examine illustrations, photographs, and dried specimens of endangered plants and consider the conservation value of an illustration over a photographic image. In a second session, students try their own hands at botanical illustration and follow the methods of a Smithsonian staff illustrator. Pencils, markers, tracing paper, and access to a photocopier are required.

This resource examines the biodiversity and the complexity of the various life forms that make up Canadian forests. The emphasis is on helping students appreciate the relationships and interdependence of all species in this ecosystem. Students learn how they can affect forests and understand ways to preserve and maintain their diversity. Themes include biotechnology, natural and introduced pests, species at risk, habitat loss and fragmentation, protected areas, climate change and traditional indigenous knowledge. Lessons can be summarized as follows:

Lesson One- It's What Inside That Counts ( 1x90min)

Students learn the basics of biodiversity by studying the arrangements of fauna and flora in a field investigation of the schoolyard. Teams will visit three assigned "habitat" sites and record living and non-living components. After discussing results, students are asked to create a poem or story about living in one of the habitat sites.

Lesson Two- Too Hot, Too Cold,...Just Right ( 2x45min)

This lesson focuses on how climate change impacts population numbers. After a discussion on how climate changes are driven by human activity, students are guided through a role play simulating the effects of rising temperatures on Arctic, Mid-latitude and Tropical biomes. After a wrap-up with discussion questions, students are asked to write a short story on an assigned topic.

Lesson Three- What Our Elders Say (1x60min, 1x90min)

After looking at how a Canadian Aboriginal legend relates to biodiversity, the students read and perform a play based on the "Legend of The Sky Sisters". Students then write their own legend incorporating an environmental message.

Lesson Four- Barrier To Biodiversity (2x60min)

After reviewing as a class how human activity can lead to habitat loss and fragmentation, students have to write and present stories in the form of a power point presentation, poster, public service announcement or skit describing how individual plants or animals are subject to, and respond to, stress in their habitat.

Lesson Five- Off Limits (4x45min)

Students investigate officially protected areas and create a class newspaper that contains articles which focus on the role of protected areas in helping maintain diversity. In this exercise they explore the social, economic, and environmental impacts of protected areas.

Lesson Six- To Be Or Not To Be (2x60min)

Students work in groups to produce a "species at risk" game board which focuses on the habitat impacts of: change/modification, over-exploitation of resources, poorly regulated commercial harvest, disruption of migration routes/breeding behaviors, contamination, and the introduction of exotic species.

Lesson Seven- Unwelcome Guests (2 x 60min)

Students develop a "Futures Wheel"(a graphic description of the inter-relationships and impacts of a single decision or event) focusing on exotic and invasive species in Canada.

Lesson Eight- Timberland ( 1x90min)

A role playing activity is used to show how biotechnology can be used as a tool to help maintain forest biodiversity. Using a timber-theft crime story students will complete a report (including a CSI sheet and victim profile) to assist them in understanding techniques used in biotechnology.

This resource can easily be adapted to include no technology.

This site offers a fun guide to gardening for kids.