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.
Dear Fellow Teachers,
School Buses Arriving at Markham Fair
Markham Fair would like to extend a warm welcome to you and your students to attend the 2016
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 September 29th , 30th, October 1st and 2nd.
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
- Early Settlers
- 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 2014 visit. Download the Field Trip Planner.
Updated Ontario Curriculum Strands Chart – Grade 1-8 (PDF, 19KB)
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, 327KB)
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 17, 2014)
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.aitc-canada.ca/en/ontario.html
All About Food Kit
All About Food
Ontario Agri-Food Education Inc. (OAFE) and Agriculture in the Classroom (AITC) Canada recently launched the fifth edition of the popular educational resource All About Food: Exploring Canada’s Food System; allaboutfood.aitc.ca -a companion website that supports high school curriculum across Canada- also comes with the publication. Its purpose is to assisting teachers and students in learning about one of our country’s largest industries.
With generous funding and support from CropLife Canada, All About Food explores Canadian food production from farm to fork; it highlights topics and issues related to production, food safety, healthy eating, the environment, as well as technology and trade. The new, interactive website provides an opportunity to investigate the Canadian agri-food system in greater depth with articles, videos and critical thinking questions, and also features career connections throughout the resource.
Available in both English and French, copies of All About Food can be ordered or downloaded from OAFE at www.oafe.org, or from provincial Agriculture in the Classroom organizations at www.aitc.ca.
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.
- 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
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 - 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, ” 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.
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.