2020-2021 AITC Annual Progress Report

Collectively, AITC-C and our provincial members are celebrating more than 2 MILLION STUDENT EXPERIENCES around Canada’s agriculture & food story over the past year!

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2021 G3 Grow Beyond Scholarship

Congratulations to the 2021 recipients of the G3 Grow Beyond Scholarship! Winners recieve a $4,000 scholarship plus an additional $1,00 going to their high school! Thank you for sharing your bright ideas for the Canadian agriculture and food sector. The future is yours to innovate!

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12 new snapAG sheets added

AITC has released 12 new snapAG information sheets for students, teachers and parents to explore ‘hot topics’ in agriculture and food! Through these infographic-style resources, students can discover accurate, balanced and current information about topics like regenerative agriculture, robotics, food security, urban agriculture, and more! View all our 73 sheets in our newly re-designed snapAG portal.

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Discover YOUR Future in Agriculture & Food Now!

The NEW thinkAG website is a one-stop shop for learning resources & experiences to ignite interest in agriculture and food career journeys for students in Grades 5-12. Offering insight as to jobs tailored to their interests and personalities, this site will help them find their purpose-driven career.

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Johanne Ross, AITC-C Executive Director, to be inducted into Canadian Agriculture Hall of Fame

Johanne has tirelessly dedicated her career to advocating for agriculture education, bridging the information gap and creating meaningful connections to agriculture and food for Canadian students and educators. She will formally be inducted into the Canadian Agriculture Hall of Fame in November 2021.

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Curriculum Connected Resource Matrix

Could Want to bring curriculum-linked agriculture education lessons into your classroom? Looking for a way to engage your kids as you learn from home? Check out our Curriculum Connected Resource Matrix!

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Real Dirt on Farming in the Classroom

Real Dirt on Farming in the Classroom enables students to engage with the Real Dirt on Farming while examining its key areas – animal welfare, crops & plants, sustainability, agriculture policy, and hot topics in our food system!

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Canadian Agriculture Education Impact Framework Report

View our impact framework outlining AITC-C’s national plan for action developed through provincial stakeholder consultations.

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ENGAGE. EMPOWER. LEAD. GROW.

Agriculture in every classroom,
inspiring every student!

Who we are

Leaders in agriculture education.

Agriculture in the Classroom Canada (AITC-C) is the national voice for agriculture education in Canada. Alongside our AITC member organizations, we are driven by a passion for the agriculture and food sector and lifelong learning. Together, we are committed to engaging Canadian students and educators to enhance their knowledge and appreciation of agriculture and food. Transparency, integrity, empowerment, inclusiveness and collaboration firmly ground us in everything we do.

What we do

We cultivate meaningful connections to agriculture and food for students and educators.

As a charitable organization, we operate from coast to coast with our ten provincial AITC members to deliver accurate, balanced, and current curriculum-linked agri-food resources, programs, and initiatives that are based on science. Through inquiry-based learning, we encourage students and educators to be curious, critical thinkers. By offering dynamic and unique outreach opportunities to connect with Canadians who make their living in agri-food, we bring students up close and personal with Canada's agriculture and food story.

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More National Highlights

AITC-C celebrates over 2 million student experiences in agriculture education

Agriculture in the Classroom Canada (AITC-C), along with its 10 provincial members has connected two million students to agriculture education experiences, as reported in AITC-C’s 2020-2021 Annual Progress Report.

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Curriculum Connected Resource Matrix now bilingual

AITC-C has added 17,055 curriculum outcomes added for for the province of Quebec! AITC-C’s Curriculum Connected Resource Matrix now has 25,431 French and 35,691 English curriculum outcomes for agriculture education learning - available for free for educators and parents.

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thinkAG.ca is LIVE!

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Provincial Highlights

New AITCNB Coordinator

New Brunswick

AITC New Brunswick would like to welcome their new Coordinator, Emilie McBride. Emilie comes from an extensive background in agriculture and the non-profit sector. She understands how critical Ag Education is to building a more sustainable future, and looks forward to bringing awareness to students about what agriculture means for New Brunswickers.

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Thrive for Agscape

Ontario

'Thrive for Agscape' is a resource enabling people at any time from any location to host independent fundraising events and/or initiatives to support agriculture and food education in our classrooms and at home. This Peer-To-Peer fundraising platform is being launched in celebration of AgScape's 30th Anniversary.

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Recipes & Stories from Manitoba Farms

Manitoba

Discover many amazing recipes, and stories behind the ingredients with “Farm to Plate: Recipes & Stories from Manitoba Farms.” Links to videos regarding the agriculture behind the ingredients are found on the recipe cards, making this ideal for at home learning.

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The Great Basil-A-Thon

British Colombia

The Great Basil-A-Thon is on! As an initiative to fundraise $25,000, participants will take pledges and plant their seeds on August 9th and spend the following 3 weeks watching them grow into a full and lush basil plant. Pledges will be accepted until August 31st.

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Join in the #AITCfun Challenge

Saskatchewan

Join in the #AITCfun Challenge this summer! Get your kids to complete the challenge posted on AITC-SK's Facebook and Twitter each week. Starting July 19th, children can participate in the Road Trip Bingo! All entries must be posted by August 29th.

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Listen to Agriculture for Life's podcast

Alberta

Agriculture for Life's podcast takes listeners beyond the grocery store aisle to discover the story of agriculture and food. A great way to learn about prominent topics in agriculture — just plug in those headphones.

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Wanting to learn more about agriculture?

What are GMOs and are they okay to eat? What does organic farming look like? How are animals like chickens or cattle raised? The snapAG project offers a series of reader-friendly information sheets that invite you to explore some hot topics linked to today's agriculture and food sector.

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