The Pulse café is available for Elementary and Junior high school. See below for more information!

Pulse café – Elementary School Program

PULSE café – Bits and Bites for learning about Alberta pulse nutrition, food and farming is designed to support learning for teachers and students in Grades 1 to 6 Health/Wellness, Science, Social Studies, Math and Language Arts programs. Use the interactive student activity booklets to spark discussion, exploration and investigation of examples that illustrate decisions and understandings about nutrition, food and farming. These activities can be used as distinct lessons, a mini-unit or as part of a project. The student activity booklets have fillable fields for students to write in and save electronically or you can order hard copies for your class!

The Teaching Notes and Curriculum Notes provide teaching suggestions to integrate PULSE café into classroom learning activities. The teaching suggestions are organized around competencies, including critical and creative thinking, problem solving, information management, communication, collaboration and personal wellness. The activities in the PULSE café student booklets have been developed to support the competencies and cross-curricular learning in Alberta Health/Wellness, Language Arts, Social Studies and Science programs of studies.

Alberta Pulse Growers offers the following PULSE café elementary school resources at no charge:

• Teaching Notes – a teaching guide designed to be used with the PULSE café elementary student booklets.
• Curriculum Notes – a partial list of links to learning outcomes in the Alberta program of studies for Health/Wellness, Language Arts, Social Studies and Science.
• Grades 1 to 3 Student Activity Booklet – available as a free download here with fillable fields or order copies for the whole class!
• Grades 4 to 6 Student Activity Booklet – available as a free download here with fillable fields or order copies for the whole class!
• Dry beans for Grade 4 to 6 bean growing activity
• Pulse variety poster

 

ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ORDER FORM

 

Pulse café – Junior High School Program

PULSE café – Bits and Bites for learning about pulse nutrition, cells and body systems was developed to build and reinforce understandings around concepts connected to body systems, nutrition and human health. Activities in the student and teaching resources are intended to spark discussion, exploration and investigation and support learning outcomes in Alberta Grade 8 Science Unit B: Cells and Systems. These activities can be used as distinct lessons, a mini-unit or as part of a project. The student activity booklets have fillable fields for students to write in and save electronically or you can order hard copies for your class!

The information and activities provided focus on pulses – the dried seeds of legume plants – but also encourage students to apply what they learn to bigger ideas connected to the role of cells within living things, body systems, nutrition and health. They can be selected and used as part of Science lessons, mini-units or as support for a project. They can be used as-is, adapted or combined as appropriate to your curriculum.

Alberta Pulse Growers currently offers the PULSE café junior high school resources at no charge:

• Teaching Notes – a teaching guide designed to be used with the PULSE café junior high student booklets.
• Junior High Student Booklet – available as a free download here with fillable fields or order copies for the whole class!
• Recipe cards for students on request (see list on the Junior High School Order Form) – a great way for students to learn how to incorporate pulses into their everyday meals!

 

JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL ORDER FORM

Alberta Pulse Growers (APG) offers a sponsorship for educators/leaders who are holding workshops or cooking classes that focus on teaching people in their community how to cook with pulses.

Sponsorship includes:

• $25 gift card to purchase pulses (dry or canned) from Loblaws stores such as Superstore, Extra Foods or No Frills Foods.
• One copy of the new APG workbook Pulses: from Farm to Table for the educator/leader.
• Copies for each participant of the new APG recipe booklet Explore the Pulse-ibilities with peas, beans, lentils & chickpeas.
• Download the coordinating Pulses: from Farm to Table Powerpoint presentation.

 

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Pulse Lesson Plans Available!

Agriculture in the Classroom Canada partnered with Pulse Canada during 2016 International Year of Pulses to offer lesson plans for educators across Canada and bring curriculum-linked pulse concepts to the classroom. 

Teacher Resource 1 Pulse Lesson Plans

Teacher Resource 2 Food and Sustainability

Teacher Resource 3 Pulses and Nutrition