‘From farm to plate: Sustainability’ provides students with the opportunity to explore the farm’s dependence on the rest of the environment to produce milk and care for animals.
Students will explore the various farm systems that support this using a project plan to research and present on farm sustainability issues, such as biodiversity, land and water management or solar energy.
The goal is for students to make meaning of their learning while using information about dairy farming as a stimulus along the journey.
Teachers are provided with suggested learning experiences supporting investigation into:
- the processes dairy farmers use to ensure the growth and survival of their animals and pastures
- ·new and existing practices used on Australian dairy farms to care for the environment, sustainably manage resources, maintain healthy farms and healthy cows
- how dairy farmers address competing considerations, including sustainability in the management of the farm and its resources
- technologies, tools, equipment, procedures and systems used on dairy farms to raise cows, produce milk and maintain healthy farms
- ways dairy farmers might manage climate variability on dairy farms
- how Australian dairy farms care for the environment, sustainably manage resources, maintain healthy farms and healthy cows
Further activities are designed to internally motivate students to explore, make connections and analyse the importance of dairy in society. These are available on the Discover Dairy website in the Activity Ideas PDF resources.
There are also a range of supporting student and teacher resources mentioned throughout this inquiry unit that can be found on the Discover Dairy website.
It is our hope that by supporting your students through these units, they will become internally motivated to explore, make connections and analyse the importance of dairy in society.
