Each theme incorporates lesson plans across all Learning Areas and contains suggested resources, activities, assessment ideas and Internet sites. Farmer Brown has put his animals in all the wrong places to live, so they eat the wrong foods and do the wrong jobs. The animals are really tired of doing things backwards, so they have run away to the zoo where they are mixed up with the animals who live there. Your task is to learn about farm and zoo animals, sort the animals into their right homes, and then choose one farm animal to help get back home. The are Department of Agriculture team members, whose mission is to determine how cloning will affect agriculture.
Students allocate tasks, research the topic and create a report and presentation.
Lots of information about ostriches and emus and the products made from these animals. This site could be used as pre-research for a class excursion. A section especially for students leads to a number of links for school projects which provide summary information and facts about a range of dairy products. Topics covered include the environment, food and fibre production, diseases and pests, plant life cycles, cooking and nutrition, and crop rotation. Activities, experiments, songs, recipes, quiz questions and useful web-links extend each episode.