Curriculum Resource Planner
The program is designed to help teachers plan for the upcoming year through science and social studies strands.
Save Time. This program is developed to reduce the teacher workload by providing a fully planned resource.
Save Money. Low price of admission, $2 per student and $2 per chaperone.
School Buses Arriving at Markham Fair
Markham Fair would like to extend a warm welcome to you and your students to attend the 2011 Markham Fair. Each year, this local fair takes place the weekend before Thanksgiving, approximately 100 schools participate and attend the fair annually. This year the Fair will take place Sept 27th, 28th, 29th and 30th.
This inexpensive field trip provides your students an opportunity to explore, learn, and experience Canadian agriculture up close. There is no booking ahead and the cost is only $2 per person.
Markham Fair is a cross-curricular learning experience, including, but not exclusively:
NEW Health Curriculum
- Making Healthy Choices
- Making Connections to Healthy Living
- Personal Safety and Injury Prevention
Science and Technology Curriculum
- Life Cycles
- Habitats
- Environmental Sustainability
- Diversity of Living Things
- Interactions of Ecosystems
Social Studies Curriculum
- Urban and Rural Communities
- Pioneers
- Map Reading
- Traditions and Celebrations
- Community and Community Helpers
The Arts
- Critical Analysis and Appreciation of various mediums
- School Children`s Art competition
Looking forward to seeing you at this year`s Markham Fair.
Dowloand the Teacher’s Information Package (PDF, 88KB)
Plan your Fall 2012 visit. Download the Field Trip Planner.
Curriculum Connections to Markham Fair – Grade 9-11 (PDF, 32KB)
Curriculum Connections to Markham Fair – Grade 1-6 (PDF, 49KB)
Curriculum Connections to Markham Fair – Intermediate (PDF, 25KB)
Curriculum Connections to Markham Fair – Kindergarten (PDF, 26KB)
Education Guide (PDF, 190KB)
Dowloand the Teacher’s Information Package (PDF, 88KB)
Enhance your curriculum by bringing your class out to experience first hand learning at the Markham Fair.
Download and Print the activity sheets:
Rabbits (PDF, 38KB)
Goats and Sheep (PDF, 92KB)
Chickens (PDF,34KB)
Download and Print the Educational Scavenger Hunt:
Educational Scavenger Hunt (PDF, 64KB) updated September 24, 2012)
Scavenger Hunt Teachers Plan (PDF, 11KB)
Download and print a high quality map. (PDF, 106KB)
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Farm Creativity Contest & Agriculture Awareness Toolkit
Attention Teachers – Submit a class set of postcards for a chance to win a computer for your classroom and a set of classroom resources.
For more information see Farm Creativity Contest at http://www.farmfoodcare.org/index.php/farm-a-food-resources/information-for-teachers
Virtual Farm Tours
Each Canadian farm shown on this site is real and is the home of the family you’ll meet in the video clips. you will see question marks once you arrive at the different types of farms.
Take the tour at www.farmissues.com
Links
- Here is a link to the education page for the OAFE Kids page. www.farmsfoodfun.com. This is a great website full of interactive games, facts, arts and crafts and trivia for teachers and students to use when learning about agriculture.
- As well, this is a link to www.oafe.org for teachers to view as a resource. In addition to link to the newsletter, this is great for teachers to download different activities, the catalogue, etc.
- Kids and Cattle Table of Contents Link
http://www.cattle.guelph.on.ca/kids_cattle/index.asp - Grain Farmers Link to What`s Growing On
http://growingon.wordpress.com/ - Burnbrae Farms –Egg Facts
http://www.burnbraefarms.com/consumer/egg_facts/index.htm - Nutritional Value
http://www.burnbraefarms.com/consumer/nutrition_health/index.htm - Horse Games for Kids
http://www2.ovc.uoguelph.ca/equimania/index.asp - Sheep Fun for Kids
http://www.ontariosheep.org/kids%20corner/kidscorner.html - PDFs on Pigs
The Dirt on Pigs
http://www.ontariopork.on.ca/portals/0/Docs/Educators/dirtonpigs.pdf
Pig Basics
http://www.ontariopork.on.ca/portals/0/Docs/Educators/pigbasics.pdf
Pig Poop Cycle
http://www.ontariopork.on.ca/portals/0/Docs/Educators/PigPoopcyclefinal.pdf
Pig Fun Book
http://www.ontariopork.on.ca/portals/0/Docs/Educators/PigTalesfinal.pdf - Farms, Foods, and Fun for Kids
http://www.farmsfoodfun.com/Default.aspx - Nutrition Education
http://ontario.teachnutrition.org/home.aspx - Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada – Student Corner
http://www4.agr.gc.ca/AAFC-AAC/display-afficher.do?id=1206968808672&lang=eng&src=hp - Ontario Beekeepers Association – Kids Zone
http://www.ontariobee.com/index.php?action=display&cat=38
OAFE newsletter for teachers
Sign up for the OAFE newsletter for teachers. You can access past newsletters and sign-up at: http://www.oafe.org/
Update #62, Winter 2009 ” Saving Our Environment – Preserving our Future”
Everything we use, including our bodies, is derived one way or another from the earth. That is why it is important to protect all these things by protecting the earth. Ecology is the relationship of living things to each other and to everything in their surroundings. The activities provided in this newsletterare designed to meet the expectations from the curriculum in Science and Technology, 2007, Revised; Social Studies, Grades 1-6; History and Geography, Grades 7-8; Health and Physical Education, 1998.
Penny Wannamaker
What a great field trip for our students. We took 98 Grade ones, twos and threes to the fair last Friday, and they had a hoot! In fact, one of the students raced into the secretary’s office to tell her it was the best field trip ever! We saw so many wonderful things including hand made quilts, home baked goods, animals, monster cars, a juggler and a 10 foot tall Mountie! Many other amazing sites were enjoyed, and I am sure the students will all want to go back again next year.