Primezone - Primary Industries Education Resources. Video case studies. Lots of links to farming videos - ABC Splash. Discover where our food comes from and how it gets to our table.
Explore farming practices and the processes involved in producing familiar food products. Use video clips to investigate the biological needs of food crops and farm animals. Explore the diversity of foods that may be produced from a range of agricultural produce.. Area of focus: Producing food Topic 1: Growing crops Learning intention: to examine how scientific knowledge informs the growing of food crops. Explore the biological needs of a range of food crops.
Some ideas to build upon Ask students to examine their lunch boxes to identify fresh foods such as 'vegetables and fruits' and those that are processed such as bread. 'Where does bread come from? ' View the first 3–4 minutes of the clips, 'Where does bread come from? ' Use the relevant discussion points to elicit students' observations of these farm crops, their basic needs and growing techniques Investigate the germination of different vegetable seeds. 'How do you grow rice? ' Barooga at harvest time - ABC online education. More info Copyright Metadata © Australian Broadcasting Corporation and Education Services Australia Ltd 2012 (except where otherwise indicated).
Digital content © Australian Broadcasting Corporation 2012 (except where otherwise indicated). Video © Australian Broadcasting Corporation (except where otherwise indicated). All images copyright their respective owners. Text © Australian Broadcasting Corporation and Education Services Australia is licenced under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0). Food Source: 22/03/2016, Behind the News. A new study has found that many Aussie kids don't actually know where their food comes from.
It's got experts worried that kids aren't being taught enough about the natural foods that make up a healthy diet. Let's take a look. Welcome to 'What's On Your Plate? ' Contestants, can you name where these foods come from? How about where these fruits and veggies grow? A new survey has found that quite a few Aussie kids are confused about how their food starts out! The results didn't get better when it came to cooking skills. Experts say these results aren't good, because kids could be getting into bad habits early on.
That's why, at some schools, kids are getting a head-start in the kitchen and the garden! REPORTER: Tell me about all the plants you’re growing... what's happening here? KID 1: So here we've got beetroot growing and we've got some eggplant as well, over there. REPORTER: That's massive, it's growing well!
KID 1: Yeah it is. Everything they grow here ends up here! KID 2: Eggplant! Belgenny Farm. Agriculture at Camden Estate. Where does our food come from? Tomatoes (video) Kids guide to Farming Potato. Kids guide to Farming Strawberry. The industrial bread process: an overview for children (KS2) Milk, from the dairy to the shop - ABC online education. Discover Dairy. Belgenny Farm Creamery. Early stage 1 learning journal v2. Discover Dairy. Sugarcane - Paddock to plate (for kids & big kids) Subject – Enviro-Stories Library. CANEGROWERS - Kids centre.