Teacher guide A year on a farm

TLF ID M019352

This resource is a 50 page pdf integrated inquiry unit, for junior primary students, exploring farm life and farm produce. It uses the five stage inquiry model to sequence activities on the importance of measuring time in farm production. Topics explored are: how do farmers grow animals and crops?; how are these processed for food and fibres?; and how long do these processes take? This resource also includes teacher notes, some basic fact sheets on Australian agriculture, links to additional supporting information, and supporting visual material designed and labelled for young learners.





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Educational value
  • This is a useful resource for the Foundation to Year 2 Design and Technologies curriculum. The activity 'viewing a cotton growing calendar' may be useful to the knowledge and understanding content description referring to how plants and animals are grown for food, clothing and shelter and how food is selected and prepared for healthy eating.
  • This resource is also relevant to several content descriptions in the Geography, Mathematics and Science curriculums.
Year level

1; 2

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  • Name: Education Services Australia
  • Organization: Education Services Australia
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  • Address: VIC, AUSTRALIA
  • URL: http://www.esa.edu.au/
  • Copyright Holder
  • Name: Primary Industries Education Foundation
  • Organization: Primary Industries Education Foundation
  • URL: http://www.primaryindustrieseducation.com.au/
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  • Name: Primary Industries Education Foundation
  • Organization: Primary Industries Education Foundation
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  • URL: http://www.primaryindustrieseducation.com.au/
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  • Name: Education Services Australia Ltd
  • Organisation: Education Services Australia Ltd
  • Address: AUSTRALIA
  • URL: www.esa.edu.au
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  • © Primary Industries Education Foundation 2015, except where indicated otherwise. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/au/deed.en Under this license the material is available for free use and adaptation. Educators may use, adapt, communicate and re-publish material from the resource.