Term 3 - On the Farm

This unit of learning provides a series of lessons about descriptive based language based on a study of Australian farms and their produce. 

Students will use a number of sources to investigate a range of farms and their produce. They will include animal farms, crop, wind, wool, dairy, wheat, nut, flower farms etc. They use their senses to identify and make observations about the materials produced by farms and their important uses. They discover that food is produced on farms and goes through various stages before it is available in our shops. 

To conclude the unit, a Farm Day will be held where the children come dressed as a person, animal or crop from a farm, and participate in a range of farm based activities to consolidate their understanding of the topic.

Focus questions to be explored in order to gain understanding of big ideas and key understandings:

• What is a farm?

• Why do we have farms and why do we need farms?

• What different types of farms are there?

• What equipment/ tools would you see on a crop farm? 

• What equipment/ tools would you see on an animal farm? 

• What is a farmers role?

• Where would you find a farm?

• How do products get from the farm to the shops and how are they packaged?