Educational Programs

Type: Guided Tours,School Programs and Workshops
Grade Levels: Adapted for all grade levels (Ontario and Quebec)

Discover the Barns at the Canada Agriculture and Food Museum to see Canada’s living agricultural history. Perfect for all ages.

Type: School Programs and Workshops
Grade Levels: 1 and 2 (Ontario), Primary Cycle 1 (Quebec)

Show primary students how food gets from farm to dinner table in What’s to Eat? at the Canada Agriculture and Food Museum.

Type: Educational Activity Kits
Grade Levels: 1 and 2 (Ontario), Primary Cycle 1 (Quebec)

Teach primary students about food, germs, and healthy living. Download What’s to Eat for free from the Canada Agriculture and Food Museum.

Type: School Programs and Workshops
Grade Levels: Grades 7 to 9 and Grades 11 and 12 (Ontario), Secondary Cycle 2 (Quebec)

Explore agriculture issues as they relate to the environment in this secondary school program at the Canada Agriculture and Food Museum.

Type: Educational Activity Kits
Grade Levels: 7, 8, 9, 11, 12 (Ontario), Secondary Cycle 2 (Quebec)

Teach secondary students how agriculture issues relate to the environment with this educational activity kit from the Canada Agriculture and Food Museum.

Type: Educational Activity Kits
Grade Levels: For ages 9 and up

Teach students about the risks of rapid disease transmission. Download the Biosecurity activity kit from the Canada Agriculture and Food Museum.

Type: Educational Activity Kits
Grade Levels: 5 (Ontario), Primary Cycle 3 (Quebec)

Teach students about food and healthy living with the free Chews Wisely activity kit from the Canada Agriculture and Food Museum.

Type: Guided Tours,School Programs and Workshops
Grade Levels: JK to Grade 3 (Ontario), Preschool and Primary Cycle 1 (Quebec)

Primary students will love turning cream into butter and learning about the cows in the Canada Agriculture and Food Museum’s Dairy Barn.

Type: School Programs and Workshops
Grade Levels: Grades 1 and 2 (Ontario), Primary Cycle 1 (Quebec)

Students have the opportunity to answer questions about fibre by using their senses and conducting interesting experiments.

Type: School Programs and Workshops
Grade Levels: JK to Grade 3 (Ontario), Preschool to Cycle 2 (Quebec)

With this program, students will get to watch sheep being shorn, make felt, card and dye wool, meet a lamb up close, and watch sheepdogs in action.

Type: School Programs and Workshops
Grade Levels: JK and SK (Ontario), Preschool (Quebec)

In the barn, students meet Woolly’s family, see who guards the sheep, and discover other fibre producing animals.

Type: Guided Tours,School Programs and Workshops
Grade Levels: JK to Grade 1 (Ontario), Preschool (Quebec)

Teach daycare, preschool, and primary students all about rabbits in Peter Cottontail at the Canada Agriculture and Food Museum.

Type: Educational Activity Kits
Grade Levels: K to Grade 4 (Ontario), Preschool to Primary Cycle 2 (Quebec)

Download this free kit from the Canada Agriculture and Food Museum to teach young students about dairy animals and their food products and by-products.

Type: Guided Tours,School Programs and Workshops
Grade Levels: JK to Grade 3 (Ontario), Preschool to Primary Cycle 2 (Quebec)

Indulge in fall fun as your primary students learn about apples, apple trees, pollination, and corn at the Canada Agriculture and Food Museum.

Type: Educational Activity Kits
Grade Levels: Grade 1

Teach Grade 1 students about energy sources and forms with this free downloadable kit from the Canada Agriculture and Food Museum.

Type: School Programs and Workshops
Grade Levels: Grades 11 and up (Ontario), Secondary Cycle 2 and up (Quebec)

Show secondary students the practical use of Punnett squares and let them help improve the Canada Agriculture and Food Museum’s herd.

Type: School Programs and Workshops
Grade Levels: 1 and 3 (Ontario), Primary Cycles 1 and 2 (Quebec)

Show primary students how wheat is grown and bread is made in Bread Science at the Canada Agriculture and Food Museum.

Type: Edukits
Grade Levels: Kindergarten to Grade 2

Teach primary students about sheep and their by-products. Borrow the Wonderful World of Woolly the Sheep from the Canada Agriculture and Food Museum.

Type: School Programs and Workshops
Grade Levels: JK to Grade 3 (Ontario), Preschool to Primary Cycle 2 (Quebec)

Through gameplaying students learn about the bee life cycle, how bees turn nectar into honey, and why many plants rely on them to produce fruits and seeds.

Type: Educational Activity Kits
Grade Levels: JK to Grade 3 (Ontario), Preschool to Primary Cycle 2 (Quebec)

Teach primary students about the bee life cycle and pollination with the Busy Bees kit from the Canada Agriculture and Food Museum.

Type: School Programs and Workshops
Grade Levels: Grade 4 (Ontario), Primary Cycle 2 (Quebec)

Show students how domestic and wild communities overlap with Food Chains at the Canada Agriculture and Food Museum demonstration farm.

Type: Educational Activity Kits
Grade Levels: 4 (Ontario), Primary Cycle 2 (Quebec)

Teach primary students about food chains, composting, and by-products. Download the Food Chains activity kit from the Canada Agriculture and Food Museum.

Type: School Programs and Workshops
Grade Levels: JK to Grade 1 (Ontario), Preschool and Primary Cycle 1 (Quebec)

Dress up your daycare, preschool, or primary classroom with pumpkins harvested and decorated by your students at the Canada Agriculture and Food Museum.

Type: School Programs and Workshops
Grade Levels: JK to Grade 1 (Ontario), Preschool and Primary Cycle 1 (Quebec)

Show daycare, preschool, and primary students the miracle of plant life by examining A Handful of Soil at the Canada Agriculture and Food Museum.

Type: School Programs and Workshops
Grade Levels: For Daycare Centres: Children 18 months to 4yrs

Do you know Mrs Farmer? The children accompany her to meet the small animals on the farm.

Type: School Programs and Workshops
Grade Levels: JK to Grade 2 (Ontario), Preschool and Primary Cycle 1 (Quebec)

Students use their senses to discover the characteristics and needs of dairy and beef cattle, sheep, pigs, horses, goats, rabbits, chickens, and bees.

Type: Educational Activity Kits
Grade Levels: K to Grade 2 (Ontario), Preschool to Primary Cycle 1 (Quebec)

Teach kindergarten and primary students about animals and their products with this free kit from the Canada Agriculture and Food Museum.

Type: School Programs and Workshops
Grade Levels: Daycare Centres: 18 months to 4 yrs

Meet Chickadee Chick, the henhouse mascot, who introduces you to his family, shows you his house, and tells you a barnyard story.

Type: School Programs and Workshops
Grade Levels: 5 (Ontario), Primary Cycle 3 (Quebec)

Have primary students see and feel the changes in matter as wheat and yeast become bread at the Canada Agriculture and Food Museum.

Type: Educational Activity Kits
Grade Levels: 5 (Ontario), Primary Cycle 3 (Quebec)

Teach primary students about the physical/chemical changes of bread ingredients with this downloadable kit from the Canada Agriculture and Food Museum.

Type: Guided Tours,School Programs and Workshops
Grade Levels: JK to Grade 2 (Ontario), Preschool and Primary Cycle 1 (Quebec)

Indulge students’ senses as they make, taste, and learn about cheese in this preschool/primary program at the Canada Agriculture and Food Museum.

Type: School Programs and Workshops
Grade Levels: 2 to 4 (Ontario), Primary Cycles 1 and 2 (Quebec)

Using pizza ingredients, teach primary students food groups and where their food comes from.

Type: Educational Activity Kits
Grade Levels: 2 to 4 (Ontario), Primary Cycles 1 and 2 (Quebec)

Teach primary students about food origins and plant life cycles with the Incre-Edible School Program educational activity kit free download.

Type: School Programs and Workshops
Grade Levels: 1 to 3 (Ontario), Primary Cycle 1 (Quebec)

Show primary students how cows are milked and cool off with some ice cream in Chill Out! at the Canada Agriculture and Food Museum.