2024 – 2025 SCHOOL YEAR: GOOD IN EVERY CLASSROOM OVERVIEW The 2025 – 2025 school year was busy for the Good in Every Classroom team! Between in-person visits to education events and classrooms and a wide library of digital resources, approximately 40,000 students engaged with Good in Every Grain’s education material. IN PERSON Emma Weizenbluth, grains educator, hit the ground running in September 2024, connecting with students at fall education events, including the Western Fair, Harvest Days at the University of Guelph, Ridgetown Campus, the International Plowing Match held in Lindsay, as well as the Royal Agricultural Winter Fair in Toronto. The fall months flew by! Emma also visited more than 20 grade three classrooms, bringing them Good in Every Grain’s inclass Grains on the Go experience, where students learned about the importance of healthy soils, some of the challenges grain farmers face, and guiding them through the creation of a delicious (and edible!) soil profile. In addition, students toured the Grains on the Go exhibit, doing so via a scavenger hunt where they search for answers to five questions, learning about the nutrients in our grains, how our grains are grown, the environment and—of course—they get an exciting, 360° view of what it is like to sit in a combine while it’s harvesting soybeans. GOOD IN EVERY GRAIN 34 ONTARIO GRAIN FARMER www.GoodinEveryGrain.ca SEED KITS Good in Every Grain sent physical resources to more than 35,000 students this year. Three different versions of the seed kits were created to accommodate a diverse range of classrooms. The popular Ontario Farming STEMterprise seed kits were curriculum-connected to include in stage three of the 10-stage program. New this year, we offered classrooms a window farm seed kit, a unique resource with a more widespread lesson plan to reach other primary students and be adaptable to the classroom environment. Lastly, we provided a third seed kit comprising oat, soybean, and wheat seeds for educators with their own planting supplies.
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