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Alberta Resources

The Ag Awareness Program fosters awareness and understanding of the agriculture industry in Alberta. The program provides activities and resources, including lesson plans, for teachers. This is a good way to see what is taught in the different grades so you can more easily tie your school tour into their curriculum. You can ask teachers if they are using any of the lesson plans provided by Ag Awareness. If they are, then you can use this site to help you focus the school tour: www.agric.gov.ab.ca/ agawareness

Ag Awareness also has a EAT (Educational Ag. Tourism) website: www.agriculture.alberta.ca/eat

Crop and

Livestock Facts

Animal education resources: http://afac.ab.ca/education. htm#AFACResources

Dairy: http://www.albertamilk.com/ nutritioneducation/teacherresources. aspx?g=&k=

Chicken: http://www.chicken.ab.ca/

Eggs: http://eggs.ab.ca/

Pigs: http://www.albertapork.com/ community.aspx?NavigationID=1314

Alberta Agriculture and Rural Development Resources

Educational resource listing: http:// www1.agric.gov.ab.ca/$department/ deptdocs.nsf/all/agic612

Colouring sheets: http://www1.agric. gov.ab.ca/$department/deptdocs.nsf/ all/cdc7787

Other

Educational Resources

This website links you to every province’s Agriculture in the Classroom educational resources: http://www.aitc.ca/

Example – click on Saskatchewan → Teacher’s Resources, then → Search by Grade or → Search by Topic and make a selection.

Ontario Agri-Food Education: http://www.oafe.org/

Photosynthesis story: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Photosynthesis

Popcorn activities and facts: http://www.popcorn.org/

Helpful

Organizations

Joining an organization will expose you to new ideas that may be very helpful to your business.

School tours are an important aspect of on-farm marketing. You may want to consider joining the North American Farmers Direct Marketing Association . Their annual conference