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Resources for Teachers
Teach your students some cool facts about pigs. Click the pictures below to view video clips, download brochures and learn more about our Teaching Resource Packages.

Hog Wild - Grades 4-6
Hog Wild Internet clip 2:16 minutes 2.2 megs - Complete video - 6 minutes

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Manitoba Pork Council, in co-operation with the Manitoba Department of Education, has produced a Grade 5 curriculum specific teacher resource.

HOG WILD is a VIDEO and TEACHER'S RESOURCE PACKAGE for Grades 4-6 that provides important information about a vital Manitoba industry. Hog Wild is designed to complement the grade 5 Social Studies curriculum "Life in Canada Today" Unit 2, The Prairies. It also includes additional activities in mathematics, language art and social studies.

A Hog Wild package includes:
  • 6 minute video - HOG WILD
  • video quiz
  • over 10 additional "pork" activities
  • 5 pages of games, puzzles, quizzes
  • reference pamphlets/ internet sites
  • prizes
Click here to order Hog Wild VIDEO AND TEACHER'S RESOURCE PACKAGE


What’s the Pig Idea? - Grades 7-11
What’s the Pig Idea? Internet clip 3:17 minutes, 3 megs - Complete video -11 minutes

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Manitoba Pork Council, in co-operation with the Manitoba Department of Education has produced a Grade 10 curriculum specific teacher resource.

WHAT'S THE PIG IDEA? is a VIDEO and TEACHER’S RESOURCE PACKAGE for Grade 7-11 that provides important information about a vital Manitoba industry. What's the Pig Idea? is designed to complement the Grade 10 North American Geography Course " Unit 2, Agricultural Interior". It is also useful in a multi-disciplinary project with English Language Arts.

A What's the Pig Idea? package includes:
  • 11 minute video - WHAT'S THE PIG IDEA?
  • video worksheet
  • industry fact and figures about pork production in Manitoba
  • over 120 additional projects and activities
  • reference pamphlets & internet sites.
Click here to order What's the Pig Idea VIDEO AND TEACHER'S RESOURCE PACKAGE


Cover Title Format
Everything but the Oink

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Pig Basics 101

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Pig Tales

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The Dirt on Pigs and the Environment

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