Welcome. In this course, you will learn about wheat. Check out the instructor guide in the material tab.
Start with the Wheat on the Farm section and learn how farmers plant, grow and harvest a wheat crop. Then follow wheat from the farm to the store shelf in the Wheat in the Grocery Store section. Finally, learn why wheat is a healthy choice and cook along as we show you some basic kitchen skills in the Wheat in Your Kitchen section.
Course content & objectives
In this course, you will learn about wheat. There are three sections:
Wheat on the Farm – Learn how farmers plant, grow and harvest a wheat crop.
Wheat in the Grocery Store – Follow wheat from the farm to the store shelf.
Wheat in the Kitchen – learn why wheat is a healthy choice and cook along as we show you some basic kitchen skills.
Course Delivery
Using the content on the Canadian Food Focus website, the material can be shared with students through a variety of methods, including:
- Lecture-style presentations by the instructor
- Student group presentations on each of the topic areas in the course
- Individual students selecting a specific topic to write about using information provided on the website and other resources
- Self-guided study with students completing quizzes at the end of each topic
- Team competitions at the end of each course to see which team gets the most quiz answers correct
Suggested Activities
- Invite a grain farmer to come and talk with your class about growing wheat. Topics could crop planning and variety selection, seeding, fertilizing, crop protection, harvesting, marketing grain and grain storage.
- Organize a field trip to a grain farm or a grain processing facility. At the farm, if during the growing season, ask the farmer to see a field of wheat and explain the growing process to you. If you’re visiting off-season, have them show you the equipment involved in seeding, spraying or harvesting and explain what each does. Another option is to arrange a tour of a grain processing facility to learn how what is transformed into flour or other flour products.
- As a group, follow Jodi’s video and make bannock, or you find a variety of bannock recipes, prepare and taste test them. Another activity is to have each member of the class bring a favourite recipe that uses flour. Discuss the type of flour that is used in each, how it is combined with other ingredients and how to manage the flour so that the gluten doesn’t become overdeveloped and create a tough product.