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The Australian cotton story

This is a nine-minute video about cotton cultivation in Australia and cotton's importance for Australians. Intended for a mid to upper primary school audience, it depicts a family sowing, irrigating, spraying and harvesting cotton on their farm at Dalby, Queensland. It also illustrates the life cycle of the cotton plant ...

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Investigating food and fibres: teacher video

This video supports the unit of work by the same name. Presented by a classroom teacher who has trialled the unit the video reflects on the inquiry based pedagogy and the unit's value in terms of curriculum alignment and student engagement. The teacher discusses the opportunities the unit offers to engage with the historical ...

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Lunchbox Legends - the people behind your lunch (Animation)

This is a video about the various occupations involved in developing and producing the food used in a ham and salad lunch roll. The video is presented by Will, a primary-school-aged boy, who identifies and describes nine occupations in several broad groups including researchers, growers of plant food; producers of animal ...

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How to grow a pair of jeans

This is a slideshow for primary students that traces the steps in cotton production and processing from seeds to jeans. The ten slides in the show use photographs and relatively simple text to cover ground preparation for the cotton crop; seed planting; irrigation and the efficient use of water by Australian cotton farmers; ...

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Getting started with sustainability in schools

This is a website to help teachers implement an Education for Sustainability (EfS) approach in their professional practice. The multi-layered site is organised into five main sections. The first (Steps) identifies four key EfS contexts and provides support for each, including 11 case studies and five teacher profiles that ...

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My American farm: app for iPad

This iPad app contains a selection of games with an agricultural theme. At the conclusion of the activities, fun farm facts or information are provided (some of these facts can be read aloud by selecting a volume icon). The games encompass a range of things important to farming life including farming equipment, careers ...

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Where would we bee without them? video

This is a video about bees and their importance for Australian agricultural production. Intended for mid-primary students, the video is presented by Trevor Weatherhead of the Australian Honey Bee Industry Council. He describes how numerous plants, such as the pumpkin crops seen in the video, are dependent on bees for pollination. ...

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ThinkKind lesson plan archive

This is a collection of lesson plans addressing the ethical treatment of animals and animal welfare. The archive includes lessons focusing the on animal welfare in food production, the treatment of animals in horse racing and the animal needs. Each lesson contains teacher notes and student resources and is aligned to the ...

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Languages online: Indonesian section 29: telling the time

This set of 11 interactive activities from the Languages online resource helps students practise saying and writing the time in 12-hour mode. The language points are asking and saying what the time is and at what time something is done with the key language focus being the question 'Jam berapa?'. Pronunciation and writing ...

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Languages online: Indonesian section 25: numbers 20-100

This set of 11 interactive activities from the Languages online resource helps students learn the cardinal numbers 20 to 100, and use them to ask and state age, address, distances, phone numbers and how much things weigh. Activities start with simple aural and written recognition of numbers, including pronunciation drills, ...

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Languages online: Indonesian section 14: best friends

This set of interactive activities from the Languages online resource introduces the language for talking about best friends and some key time phrases (soon, later, tonight and tomorrow). Guided conversations are used to model Indonesian language structures and their pronunciation to support students' learning. Student ...

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Languages online: Indonesian section 05: numbers 11-20

This set of interactive activities from the Languages online resource introduces the cardinal numbers 11 to 20 and the vocabulary for performing basic sums. Included in the activities is pronunciation practice, a song presenting the vocabulary for addition equations, two counting activities including one using a calculator ...

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Languages online: Indonesian section 15: 'Do you have a pet?'

This set of interactive activities from the Languages online resource introduces the Indonesian names for six animals and how to describe some of their physical features, using specific adjectives for colour, size and body covering, including adjectives with the 'ber-' prefix. The activities explore target vocabulary (including ...

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Languages online: Indonesian section 22: expressions

This set of four interactive activities from the Languages online resource introduces students to some common expressions of exclamation such as 'Look out', 'Ouch!' and 'Help!'. Pronunciation drills are followed by listening comprehension activities with the exclamation used in simple realistic contexts. For example, students ...

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Languages online: Indonesian section 19: colours - describing hair and eyes

This set of six interactive activities from the Languages online resource introduces students to colours, and how to describe people's eyes and hair. Activities are provided to help students recognise, pronounce and write colour words to complete texts and exchanges about people's physical appearance. The activities also ...

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Languages online: Indonesian section 32: modes of transport

This set of ten interactive activities from the Languages online resource helps students practise basic vocabulary for 12 different modes of transport. The key language points are asking how you travel to a place, saying the transport you use and asking when a train departs (using 24-hour time) and, from a cultural perspective, ...

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Languages online: Indonesian section 17: animals

This set of five interactive activities from the Languages online resource introduces students to the vocabulary for five domestic animals. The activities also familiarise students with the ways to express what animals they have and the foods that animals eat. Pronunciation drills are followed by close-ended exercises in ...

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Languages online: Indonesian section 09: 'Where do you live?'

This set of interactive activities from the Languages online resource introduces how to ask and say where one lives in Indonesian. Included in the activities are authentic social interactions for students to model from, a song based on Indonesian popular music for language consolidation and reference to key Indonesian cities ...

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Languages online: Indonesian section 07: 'How old are you?'; family members

This set of interactive activities from the Languages online resource introduces how to ask about and say one's age as a way of greeting. In addition, it introduces basic vocabulary for talking about family by highlighting the culturally specific and differentiating terms used to address family members on the basis of age ...

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Languages online: Indonesian section 21: 'Do you like ...?'

This set of four interactive activities from the Languages online resource introduces students to the way to express simple likes and dislikes in relation to leisure activities. Integral to the activities are the terms for eight different sports and/or hobbies. Activities are chiefly based on listening to realistic simple ...