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Great new agriculture resource for NZ school kids
25 July 2011
Great new agriculture resource for NZ school kids
New Zealand primary school children have a new resource to help them learn more about one of the country’s leading industries – dairy farming.
DairyNZ has launched its Go Dairy education website, a dedicated education website for teachers and their pupils.
“It’s part of our work to increase the awareness and understanding of the dairy industry,” says DairyNZ Corporate Communications Manager Sarah Fraser.
“The resource had three key criteria: it had to meet an identified gap in the curriculum, it had to be easy for the teachers to use, appealing to the children and to use dairying as the context for learning,” she says.
It has been developed by education specialists Lift Education and is aligned with the New Zealand curriculum, and when completed next year, will cover from levels 1 to 8.
Currently levels 1 and 2 are available. Levels 1 and 2 focus on the concept of innovation, with enterprise being the feature for levels 3 and 4, and levels 5 to 8 focussing on sustainability.
In curriculum levels 1 and 2 students are able to learn how a cow works, discover the different types of milking sheds and different types of milking, and learn how milk is turned into different dairy products.
The website contains digital texts and digital learning objects, as well as hard copy resources. There are downloadable, printable teaching units for a range of learning areas – English (literacy), maths, science, technology, social studies. It also contains fact sheets for teachers and a resource database, which directs teachers to existing resources.
“We’ve already had a great response from teachers who’ve had a preview of the site. They say in addition to it being a great foundation for inquiry-based learning, they can also see it being useful for boys’ literacy and ESOL teaching,” says Sarah.
The resource also features Rosie, DairyNZ’s cowbassador, who also stars on her own website www.rosiesworld.co.nz.
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