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• TLF-IDA005024

This series of lessons is about innovations and technologies in the cropping industry. Students explore the development of new varieties of productive plants in a changing climate, and technologies that generate data to enable improved risk management and crop decision-making by producers. They then investigate the role ...

• TLF-IDA005737

This resource is a cross curriculum unit, focused on Design and Technologies, Science, and many other areas of the curriculum. Sustainability as a cross-curriculum priority is also emphasised. Topics include Seasons and jobs on the farm; Who lives on the farm?; People on the farm; Past, present and future on the farm; and ...

• TLF-IDA005758

This resource focuses mainly on the Design and Technologies curriculum. Sustainability as a cross-curriculum priority is emphasised. Topics include Managing sustainable red meat production; Feeding strategies and product quality; Management of plants and animals; Where does Australian meat go?; From paddock to plate; and ...

• TLF-IDA005031

In this digital learning kit, three candidates are interviewed about their experiences in three unusual farming settings; saffron, lemon myrtle and carbon farming. The kit contains three short video interviews with people in the industry and a set of supporting worksheets. The worksheets give students an opportunity to ...

• TLF-IDM019332

This is a video about how Australian farmers embrace technology. Using animation, photographs and commentary with occasional puns and jokes by a primary-school--aged boy, it sets the scene of the overall impact of technology, describes why Australian farmers have always been innovative; provides a definition of technology; ...

• TLF-IDM019597

This is a short clip in which a dietician, Kate, describes a food security research project she is working on and includes details about what food security is, the skills employed by researchers and what she enjoys about her project topic. Kate provides encouragement for undertaking work experience to find out more about ...

• TLF-IDM018948

This is a video about the value of a unit of work focusing on agriculture and food production as part of an integrated approach to Implementing the Australian Curriculum. It is presented by year 6 teacher Tathia Shield Wells and includes footage of her students making butter and growing vegetables. She explains how the ...

• TLF-IDM019599

This is a short clip in which a winemaker describes his job and industry including some of his daily tasks, the location of the winery in south-east Queensland’s Granite Belt Region, and the role of that winemaking plays in the agrifoods industry. The winemaker, Peter, works at the Queensland College of Wine Tourism and ...

• TLF-IDM019330

This is a video about author and farmer SD Gentill and how she combines writing with growing black truffles. It consists of an interview in which she answers questions posed by Will, a young boy. To a background of scenes from her Snowy Mountains farm and a Brisbane restaurant she supplies, Gentill explains how truffles ...

• TLF-IDM025776

Chickens are fascinating animals and provide students with an interesting subject matter to discuss the many aspects of our living world. This interactive course for students explores the question 'How does the closed system of a chicken meat farm model the interactions, flow of energy and the cycling of matter through ...