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.
Welcome Letter
Teachers: Remember to plan an activity or scavenger hunt for your students to do and see at the Markham Fair. This will give them a focus for the day, and will allow you to cover curriculum content while you are there.
On the day of the Fair students should have:
Teachers you should provide each volunteer with a:
Teachers please instruct your students and parents that anyone walking around the fair wearing a Yellow Markham Fair Jacket and or Director, or Committee ribbons are Markham Fair Volunteers, and if they need anything these are the people to talk too.
Lost Children’s Trailer is located just inside the main gates. If any students should get separated from the group, this is the place to be reunited with them.
Thank you for participating in the Fair. We Hope everyone has a great time at the Markham Fair.
Michelle Hulshof and Amanda King
Curriculum Chairs
Markham Fair would like to extend a warm welcome to you and your students to attend the 2019 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 October 3rd 4th, 5th, and 6th.
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
Science and Technology Curriculum
Social Studies Curriculum
The Arts
Looking forward to seeing you at this year`s Markham Fair.
Download the Teacher’s Information Package (PDF, 88KB)
Field Trip Planner
Download the Teacher’s Information Package (PDF, 88KB)
Enhance your curriculum by bringing your class out to experience firsthand learning at the Markham Fair.
Tool Kit
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
All About Food: Exploring Canada’s Food System is an educational resource geared towards grades 9-12. The All About Food book presents factual information on ‘hot topics’ in agriculture such as food waste, biotechnology and career opportunities.
Hard copies of the French and English resources can be ordered by visiting the website of your respective provincial Agriculture in the Classroom.
A companion website, allaboutfood.aitc.ca, extends learning with links to videos, interactive games, and industry websites. Student learning is framed through inquiry questions which promote critical thinking about the variety of topics.
Teacher Resources
Resources found at agscapr.ca/resources are offered free of charge. You’ll be asked to register and/or login prior to downloading material.
All AgScape programs and resources are designed to reflect our core values in providing factual and non-biased information to ensure a balanced presentation of facts.
AgScape maintains full responsibility and final decisions regarding the educational content of all programs and resources and ensures that all offerings meet the following 8 critical criterion:
Visit https://agscape.ca/resources to Select Grade and Subject.
Links
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 newsletter are 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.
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