Let's Talk Food Resources
Backgrounders
Discover a set of resources curated to get you ready to discuss sustainable agriculture and food security.
Bee Helpers
Lessons
Students will learn about the importance of bees and the human impacts on bee populations.
Experiment with plants!
STEM Explained
List of hand-on activities connected to plants
Needs of Plants
Backgrounders
Plants have specific needs - light, air, water, nutrients, and space - to survive and reproduce.
Seed Dispersal
Lessons
Students develop and apply the skills of observing, comparing, contrasting, sorting and classifying, to investigate how seeds move from place to place.
Design & Build a Seed Saver
Lessons
Students will work collaboratively to design and build a structure that will protect a seed from the elements.
Design & Build a Travelling Seed
Lessons
Students will work collaboratively to design and build models of seeds that can travel as far as possible.
Design & Build an Irrigation System
Lessons
Students will work collaboratively to design and build a simple irrigation system that transports water to at least two plants from one source without leaking.
Design & Build a Bee House
Lessons
Students will learn about the human impacts on bee populations as they design, test, build and observe a structure for solitary bees.
Jenny Fortier
Career Profiles
Initiatives Officer and Greenhouse Operator