13/08/2013
Printable farm colouring sheets These 6 printout colouring sheets are a great activity for kids and cover every area of the farm. You can also use them for other things, such as trying to name all of the animals you can see and what food or product they produce. We found them over on the Brave Kid Games website and you can print them off directly from the website by simply clicking on the images. You can find the printouts here....
23/07/2013
Farm Animal Matching Worksheet This matching game teaches kids about where their food or other materials come from. Children have to draw a line between the two columns to match the farm animal with the food or material it produces so they have to work out which food comes from which animal. Early writers can then also learn and label the names of each animal and food. The worksheet has two sides with seven different animals and foods. We found it over on the ...
17/03/2011
Farmer Foggy Tractors Video Farmer Foggy is a show made for young children and set on a live farm. This video is a great 5 minute clip from the Fantastic Farm Machines show. It runs through several of the most common farm machines - tractor, baler, plough, scoop etc. If your child is tractor mad or you're learning about farm machines this is a really useful video. ...
09/02/2010
My Farm Food Worksheets The people at My School Lunch have created lots of resources and lesson plans on a mini site called My Farm Food. If you're looking for a quick printable fun worksheet about crops that grow, this one has a tractor spot the difference, a match-the-crop-to-the-product activity and a potato drawing activity. If you want a ...
11/01/2010
Agri Aware "Dig In" farming teaching modules Agri aware is a useful website set up to promote and educate about farming in Ireland. Their Dig In resources for primary schools are four teaching schemes around farming. They provide downloadable versions of the modular activity books on their website. The resources are pretty varied and worth a look if you're covering farming. Each module has activities about different animals, healthy eating and aspects of farmi...
11/09/2009
All About Cheese Foundation Stage and Key Stage One Pack This is an A4 booklet with poster and laminated picture cards. It is an industry sponsored pack so use your discretion, but there are some useful bits and pieces in here. It contains five pages of information about cheese and healthy eating, twelve pages of activities, divided into five themes – introducing cheese / cheese detectives / cheese for sale / cooking with cheese / good health week. Plus five pages of phot...
19/06/2009
Farmer Duck's Day Off Based around the book “Farmer Duck” by Martin Waddell and Helen Oxenbury, this lesson plan helps children to understand what a farmer needs to do to take care of animals by imagining that the Farmer has a day off. It's an RSPCA resource so works from an animal welfare perspective. Available in the RSPCA's education section on their website. ...
19/04/2009
Where Does Bread Come From? The Grain Chain is an industry sponsored website which provides educational materials about wheat and bread, milling and baking. As it is an industry sponsored site it provides a fairly conventional / industrial view of bread production, but it gives loads of really good information about wheat and bread and some well thought out activities to do with children, including making their own bread. Use your discretion to find the appropriate parts for your...