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This resource includes a question booklet and suggested answer section covering Tocal farm. It's is a 2200 hectare farm located in the lower Hunter Valley of New South Wales, Australia. The property contains a range of natural ecosystems, from rainforest remnants and wetlands to dry sclerophyll forests. The main farm enterprises are beef cattle, dairying, horse breeding, and free range egg production, with a small demonstration sheep flock and some cropping. ... Learn more

This resource includes a question booklet and suggested answer section covering the NSW Ag Stage 6 Preliminary Farm Case Study and HSC syllabus requirements. The resource is designed to be used as an actvity and learning booklet to investigate the many t... Learn more

Students will learn about a calendar of operations are organisational recording tools which assist the producer with planning. Calendars illustrate the order of operations such as joining, lambing/calving, vaccinating, drenching, sowing, harvesting, and; often the type of management practice used for example stock processing before weaning, two step weaning, feed lotting, cultivation, and weed management.... Learn more

This resource includes a question booklet and suggested answer section covering the NSW Ag Stage 6 Preliminary Farm Case Study.... Learn more

We all need food to live, so let's learn how food grows. Resource available by purchase, consists of two series of books each with four parts, illustrated using photos. Gaye the Garden Girl book set describes the lifecycles of vegetables, beneficial insec... Learn more

This resource presents two teaching ideas and activities that support Australian Curriculum year 7 science. Both activities investigate water contamination from run-off. Part 1 discusses physical contamination by erosion. Part 2 investigates chemical contamination. These teaching ideas and activities are intended to be used to augment relevant existing lessons in a work program.... Learn more

In this activity students explore several soil science careers and how people working in a variety of environmental management careers use soil science in their work. Soil science offers meaningful and rewarding career options which often intersect with other sciences such as ecology, hydrology and forensics. ... Learn more

A rainforest factsheet and worksheet by Forests NSW Community Programs combined to help students explore questions around rainforests including; location, features and adaptations of rainforests.... Learn more

This series of Career Q&A videos forms part of a suite of resources promoting careers within agriculture. Three candidates are interviewed and asked the same series of questions about their careers in agriculture. The videos can either be watched individually depending on the topic or all three of the videos can be watched together.... Learn more