DairyCo has launched a
new package of free teaching resources telling the story of where food comes
from on World School Milk Day. The resources are available to download
from www.foodafactoflife.org.uk
in a major revamp of Britain's leading food and farming education
site.
The relaunch of the
British Nutrition Foundation site comes after teachers and pupils across Britain
had their say in a research project led by DairyCo to boost the site's primary
and secondary school resources.
Teachers can access
new videos, a dozen interactive, easy-to-use PowerPoint-based guides to food and
farming, and a range of question and answer sheets with marking
guides.
The improved primary
school resources help bring together cross-curricular learning through the
context of food with a new addition to the extremely popular 'Learn with'
stories - an interactive 'My Farm Visit' notebook. The 'Learn with' stories,
which have been downloaded more than 80,000 times in the past year, follow young
children exploring healthy eating and where food comes from. A new video
features a group of school children as they find out how milk is produced on a
dairy farm.
Secondary school
teachers can enjoy a whole new food and farming area on the site including
editable worksheets and interactive presentations spanning areas from animal
health and welfare, the environment and milk production. A new video focuses on
the origins of foods from each of the five eatwell plate food
groups.
Today's launch
coincides with the United Nation's World School Milk Day initiative which is
celebrated across the globe with events for school children taking place on
dairy farms throughout Britain.
Diane Symes, Schools and Education
Manager atDairyCo, said: "The new and improved resources are a significant
addition to site, not least because they are based on feedback from teachers and
pupils. We know many teachers feel as strongly as we do about the importance of
learning about food and farming, so it's great that we can offer them quick,
immediate access to a fantastic range of new resources."
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