GoDairy Education

www.GoDairy.co.nz/education is a dedicated website for primary school teachers and their students.

It contains curriculum-related teaching units, digital texts and digital learning objects, along with up-to-date background information for teachers, all of which use dairying as a context for learning.

Like Rosie™, the dairy industry Cowbassador, it has been developed to increase awareness and understanding of the dairy industry.

The resource has three key criteria: it had to meet an identified gap in the curriculum, it had to be easy to use for the teachers, appealing to the children and to use dairying as the context for learning.

It has been developed by education specialists Lift Education and is aligned with the New Zealand curriculum, and when completed next year, will cover from levels 1 to 8.

Currently levels 1 and 2 are available. Levels 1 and 2 focus on the concept of innovation, with enterprise being the feature for levels 3 and 4, and levels 5 to 8 focussing on sustainability.

In curriculum levels 1 and 2 students are able to learn how a cow works, discover the different types of milking sheds and different types of milking, and learn how milk is turned into different dairy products.

The website contains digital texts and digital learning objects, as well as hard copy resources. There are downloadable, printable teaching units for a range of learning areas – English (literacy), maths, science, technology, social studies. It also contains fact sheets for teachers and a resource database, which directs teachers to existing resources.

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