Join us for new Knowing Growing online workshops for teachers
Knowing Growing is a joint initiative of three leaders in agriculture education – PIEFA, the Royal Agricultural Society of NSW, and the NSW Department of Primary Industries.
The aim of the program is to facilitate teaching about our primary industries in schools by providing quality professional development for all teachers. New online workshops are happening in October, November and December. Register now
Years K to 6: English, Health, Mathematics, Science and Technology
Taste & Learn™ is a 5-week curriculum-aligned program from CSIRO that focuses on the fun and enjoyment of vegetables. Funded by Hort Innovation, this program has been developed by scientists and educators, extensively tested in schools and has a sound evidence base. View resource
Years K to 6: Health, Science and Technology
Learn from Australia’s coolest experts as they teach the key skills to practice, and share a sneak peek into the exciting work they do. This new resource from Meat & Livestock Australia provides students with the capability to learn from some of the best and brightest in their respective fields and provides teachers with curriculum-aligned resources to assist classroom learning. View resource
Introduction
The Australian Curriculum addresses learning about food and fibre production in two ways:
The scope of learning in food and fibre reflects relevant content from across the Australian Curriculum.
The Australian Curriculum Connection: Food and fibre provides a framework for all young Australians to understand and value primary industries both across learning areas and specifically within the Technologies learning area as a technologies context in core learning across Foundation to Year 8 and as additional learning opportunities offered by states and territories in Years 9–10
The food and fibre connection has been presented in bands of schooling. In Foundation – Year 6, the connection is described as learning about producing food and fibre. In Years 7–10, it is described as food and fibre production.
African Swine Fever is a devastating disease that affects pigs around the world. Currently the disease has no method of control and is a major problem in all pig production countries in the world. Because there is no control for the disease, it is imperative that we keep the disease out of Australia, to protect our economically important pork industry.
This resource provides a number of detailed classroom activities that link with the Animal Production content areas of the NSW Agricultural Technology 7-10 syllabus and also will be very relevant to other year 9 and 10 Animal Production programs across Australia. This assists with understanding management of pig production to reduce the impact of ASF and provides a number of activities to allow focus on the disease to assist in understanding the importance of the disease to the pig industry in Australia today.
The Foodprint Melbourne research team, from the University of Melbourne, has worked with the Geography Teachers’ Association of Victoria to develop a set of teaching resources to support the ‘Biomes and food security’ unit of the Year 9 geography curriculum. Development of these resources was funded by the Lord Mayor’s Charitable Foundation.
The materials cover most outcomes for the ‘Biomes and food security’ unit of both the Victorian and Australian Year 9 Geography curriculum. The resources include teacher instructions and student worksheets, dynamic mapping tools, GIS tools and data, data sets, a fieldwork planning guide, infographics and videos.
Victorian Curriculum Codes: VCGGC 127, VCGGC 128, VCGGC 129, VCGGC 130,VCGGC 131, VCGGC 132, VCGGK 133, VCGGK 134, VCGGK 135, VCGGK 136, VCGGK 137, VCGGK 138.
https://research.unimelb.edu.au/foodprint-melbourne/school-resources/year-9-geography