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Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada

Take this quiz to test what you know about agriculture in Canada.

Canada Agriculture Museum

The virtual exhibition Bees: A Honey of an Idea explores the essential role bees play in the pollination of many Canadian food crops. Visit the exhibition to find out about different types of bees, life in the hive, beekeeping and pollination. Or try out recipes, crafts and activities all about bees.

National Research Council Canada

Discover Canada's first settlement of Mars! This simulation helps students in grades 6-8 understand space exploration. Teams across Canada can design and build life support systems and demonstrate their achievements.

National Research Council Canada

Learn all about the constellations-their legends, shapes and locations-with an interactive representation of the night sky and a printable sky chart and viewer.

National Research Council Canada

Access resources for teachers and students to discover how to explore the skies above Canada. Find information to support curriculum, as well as a glossary of astronomy terms and a gallery of images.

Canadian Space Agency

Surf through the section appropriate to your age (9-12, 13-16 or 17+) to find out how you can participate in the Canadian Space Program, get some ideas for school projects, identify interesting space-related books and more.

Want to do some fun papercraft? Print out and colour this "cruncher".

Canada Agriculture Museum

These online kits give you access to the Museum's programs from anywhere. Developed to complement and support our school programs, these free kits offer teachers, parents, caregivers, and other educators interesting educational activities for students from kindergarten through secondary school.

Environment Canada

Have a fun time with this collection of activities about water!

Canada Agriculture Museum

Want to know where cows are raised? Where cranberries come from? Click on a picture and find out where in Canada your food is grown.

Use this simple activity to make sure your kitchen habits follow food safety guidelines.

Canada Agriculture Museum

Try these experiments, activities, and quizzes and learn about food safety, food packaging, and food preservation.

Canada Agriculture Museum

Visit the virtual exhibition Food for Health to learn about food choices and their role in ensuring good health, as well as food safety and the impact of changing farming practices. The site includes Educational Activity kits for teachers, games and links to other web resources on food and nutrition.

Canadian Museum of Nature

Try one of these 13 interactive activities to practice your birdsong abilities, learn bird silhouettes, find out how to attract birds to your backyard and much more.

Canadian Museum of Nature

Try one of these 30 interactive activities to learn about dinosaurs, the meteorite that caused a massive extinction, what we know about ancient mammal species, climate change through time and much more.

Canadian Museum of Nature

Try these interactive activities to learn about mammals: the warning a skunk makes before spraying, how mammals keep warm, appropriate wolf pack behaviour and more.

The Geoscape Ottawa-Gatineau activities are a set of educational tools to raise awareness of the significance of Earth Science in the Ottawa-Gatineau region. The activities were developed by classroom teachers and a scientist of the Geological Survey of Canada. Two sets of lesson plans/activities have been prepared by local teachers to meet Ontario curriculum needs. Grades 7-11.

The Geoscape Toronto activities strive to support teachers in the successful delivery of Earth Science and Geography curriculum expectations while challenging students to relate the knowledge they have acquired to the world outside their classroom. The activities were developed by a classroom teacher and the integrity of the content has been verified by technical experts. Grades 7-9.

Canada Agriculture Museum

How much do you know about food values? Match up each item from a Nutrition Facts label to its picture and function.

Canada Science and Technology Museum

Draw it, scan it, email it: submit your invention and see what other kids have created.

Find fact sheets on Canada's National Parks, Historic Sites and ecozones, with curriculum information, maps, data and links.

Canada Agriculture Museum

These printable activity sheets allow preschool and elementary students to explore farm life and food through colouring and matching activities, as well as simple quizzes.

Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada

Complete the puzzles! Play three trivia games - on food safety and quality, science and innovation, and the environment - to make the puzzle pieces come together.

Canada Agriculture Museum

Discover life on the farm hands-on at the museum or in the classroom. Visit the Museum for an Education Program or download an Educational Activity Kit to explore seasonal cycles, farm technology at work, where our food comes from and much more.

Canadian Museum of Nature

Read the adventure, then take the quiz! These activities cover climate change with topics like rising sea levels, getting clues from glaciers, changes in weather patterns, and more.

National Research Council Canada

Discover something new going on in the sky above you with Dr. Ken Tapping, an astronomer who shows you how to enjoy the beauty and mysteries of the heavens with nothing more than binoculars.

Canadian Museum of Nature

Discover 11 activities for classroom use on the topics of genetics, diversity, DNA, and the ethics of genetic testing. For Grades 5-12.

Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada

The Hydrologic Cycle explains the fate of water as it travels in and around the earth's surface. Every stage of the water cycle is revealed - from precipitation, runoff and infiltration to recharge, discharge and evaporation. The animation focuses on the movement of groundwater, further explaining the different types of aquifers, wells and sources of contamination.

Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada

Tomatosphere is a research project that will involve about 13,000 Canadian classrooms this year. In 2011, students will have the opportunity to grow tomatoes from two sets of seeds. One set will be seeds which have been exposed to a simulated space environment and the other set will be the control group.