'Til the cows come home

 

Food - a fact of life has been producing a large number of free teaching resources for many years. Our new selection of resources have been developed to be flexible to suit your teaching needs - feel free to 'dip-in' and select those most relevant to your lessons on where dairy foods come from. These resources support a wide range of curriculum areas, including science, food technology, home economics, geography, health and wellbeing, and personal, social and health education.

Here are ten classroom ideas from the teacher's guide:
1) Each PowerPoint presentation can be used together with the note sheet as part of a lesson with the whole class - ideal to ensure that students pay attention.
 
2) Students who finish their work early, or who wish to work independently, can also complete the note sheets using the PowerPoint presentations on their own - useful for differentiation in the classroom.
 
3) The online tutorials can be used for extension work or assigned as homework - ask pupils to print out the record at the end for your assessment records.
 
4) Integrating the video clips when using the PowerPoint presentations with the whole class can help to make a stimulating and memorable lesson.
 
5) Create a list of the different employment opportunities and the skills needed to work on a dairy farm - there are may different types of careers available, you may be surprised!
 
6) A farm visit could be arranged, with the resources either being used to prepare students for the visit or after the visit to consolidate student learning.
 
7) Explore the different schemes set up to help protect the health and welfare of dairy cows, and promote sustainability.
 
8) Research a variety of food products, such as Cheddar cheese, which are legally permitted to use the Protected Designation of Origin (PDO) mark on labelling.
 
9) Investigate the different farming systems and set up a debate between two different systems, such as organic vs. non-organic, or extensive farming vs. all-year-round housing.
 
10) Create a list of the different dairy foods and meals or dishes which use dairy foods.

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