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Australian Curriculum - Agriculture in education (a teacher's point of view)

Video Australian Curriculum - Agriculture in education (a teacher's point of view)

TLF ID M018948

This is a video about the value of a unit of work focusing on agriculture and food production as part of an integrated approach to Implementing the Australian Curriculum. It is presented by year 6 teacher Tathia Shield Wells and includes footage of her students making butter and growing vegetables. She explains how the Agrifood unit 'So you think you know where your food comes from' has helped her with practical activities that support the teaching and learning of content descriptions in various subjects, particularly science. The video lasts for 2:39min and ends with Wells describing some of the valuable features of the unit.

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Educational value
  • This video is particularly valuable for upper primary teachers who are looking not only for a worthwhile way of integrating content descriptions from various subjects into a coherent program but also for a relevant unit of work they can adapt to suit their class. Tathia Shield Wells makes a strong case for using agriculture and the year 6 Agrifood unit for this purpose. She points to the unit's value for science, the food and fibre context in design and technologies, and for advertising in English.
  • The unit activities shown or discussed in the video are most useful for the year 6 science content descriptions that refer to changes to materials being reversible or irreversible and to constructing and using a range of representations, including tables and graphs, to represent and describe observations, patterns or relationships in data. The activities are also of value for the content description in the 5-6 design and technologies curriculum about investigating how and why food is produced in managed environments.
Year level

5; 6

Topics Food products Agriculture Farming systems Primary industry States of matter Phase transformations Food technology Data analysis Data representation Nutrition Graphs (Data representation) Food preparation Corrosion Fibres (Materials) Solubility Work health and safety Patterns Food miles Modelling
Learning area
  • Geography
  • Science
  • Design and technologies
  • Technologies
  • Design

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Contributors
  • Contributor
  • Name: Education Services Australia
  • Organization: Education Services Australia
  • Description: Data manager
  • Address: VIC, AUSTRALIA
  • URL: http://www.esa.edu.au/
  • Copyright Holder
  • Name: AgriFood Skills Australia
  • Organization: AgriFood Skills Australia
  • URL: http://www.agrifoodskills.net.au/
  • Publisher
  • Name: AgriFood Skills Australia
  • Organization: AgriFood Skills Australia
  • Description: Publisher
  • URL: http://www.agrifoodskills.net.au/
  • Resource metadata contributed by
  • Name: Education Services Australia Ltd
  • Organisation: Education Services Australia Ltd
  • Address: AUSTRALIA
  • URL: www.esa.edu.au
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Learning Resource Type
  • Video
Rights
  • © AgriFood Skills Australia 2015. Except where indicated otherwise, this material may be used in accordance with the Standard YouTube License at http://www.youtube.com/t/terms.