National Ag Day 2021

Join the STEM Challenge!

To celebrate National Ag Day 2021, PIEFA in collaboration with our member partners bring to you an exciting series of STEM challenges that Primary teachers and students can engage with to develop food and fibre skills.

The collection of STEM challenges will continue to be expanded into the future.

Don’t Miss The FarmerTime LiveStreams !

Here is a list of all of the sessions you can attend:

‘Mushrooms’ (Years 3/4) with Farmer Georgia Beattie via Google Meets – 15th Nov MONDAY AT 10:00 AM

‘Forestry’ (Years 5/6) with Forester Taylah via Google Meets – 15th Nov MONDAY AT 10:30 AM

‘Cane’ (High School) with Farmers Zenan Reinaudo & Paul Marbelli via Google Meets – 15th Nov MONDAY AT 12:00 PM

‘Goat Dairy Production’ (Years 5/6) with Farmer Sarahat via Google Meets – 15th Nov MONDAY AT 2:30 PM

‘Beneficial Insects and Cropping’ (Years 3/4) with Farmer Ashlee Bartlett via Google Meets – 16th Nov TUESDAY AT 10:00 AM

‘Honey Bees’ (Years F/2) with Farmer Jessica Berry via Google Meets – 16th Nov TUESDAY AT 10:30 AM

‘Forestry’ (Years 5/6) with Forester Kent Bennett via Google Meets – 16th Nov TUESDAY AT 12:00 PM

‘Pork’ (Upper High School) with Farmer Tim Kingma via Google Meets – 16th Nov TUESDAY AT 2:30 PM

‘Avocados’ (Years 5/6) with Farmer Steve Marshall via Google Meets – 17th Nov WEDNESDAY AT 10:00 AM

‘Technology & Hort’ (Years 5/6) with Farmer Tahirih Mcleod via Google Meets – 17th Nov WEDNESDAY AT 10:30 AM

‘Forestry’ (Years 11-12) with Forester Gavin Livingston via Google Meets – 17th Nov WEDNESDAY AT 12:00 PM

‘Meat & Livestock’ (High School) with Farmer and CEO Jane Weatherley via Google Meets – 17th Nov WEDNESDAY AT 2:30 PM

‘Grains’ (Years F-2) with Farmer Jake Hamilton via Google Meets – 18th Nov THURSDAY AT 10:00 AM

‘Wine’ (Years 5/6) with Farmer Catherine Kidman via Google Meets – 18th Nov THURSDAY AT 10:30 AM

‘Horticulture – Potatoes’ (Years 3/4) with Farmer Kerri-Ann Lamb via Google Meets – 18th Nov THURSDAY AT 12:00 PM

‘Fisheries’ (High School) with Fisher Sienna Green via Google Meets – 18th Nov THURSDAY AT 2:30 PM

‘Technology in Grains’ (Years 3/4) with Farmer Hugh Macague via Google Meets – 19th Nov FRIDAY AT 10:00 AM

‘Vegetables’ (Years F-6) with Farmer Catherine of Velisha Farms via Google Meets – 19th Nov FRIDAY AT 10:30 AM

‘Cotton’ (Years 3/4) with Farmer Renee Anderson via Google Meets – 19th Nov FRIDAY AT 12:00 PM

‘Regenerative Agriculture – The Journey from Paddock to Plate’ (High School) with Farmer Tim Eyes via Google Meets – 19th Nov FRIDAY AT 2:30 PM

Other Classroom Ideas

Paddock to Plate

K-2: Look in your lunchbox. Make a class mindmap/graph/display of all the products in our lunchboxes that have come from farms.

3-6: Look in your lunchbox. Choose one food that has come from a farm. Research the paddock to plate process involved in producing this food.

Meet a Farmer

3-6: Organise a whole-class zoom meeting with someone who produces food. Prepare questions that you’d like to ask them. Write an informative text based on the information you learnt from the meeting.

Picture book studies

Early Stage 1/Stage 1 – A Year on our Farm (Penny Matthews and Andrew McLean); Pete the Sheep (Jackie French)

Stage 2 – My Farm (Alison Lester); Banjo & Ruby Red (Libby Gleeson)

Stage 3 – Drought (Jackie French); Two Summers (John Heffernan)