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Meningie Agricultural Program 2024

Year 4/5 – Semester 2

Curriculum Outcomes Topics

Food & Fibre

Content
Design & Tech Content

Sci – Understanding

Sci – Inquiry Skills

Sci - SHE

Entrepreneurial Skills

Aboriginal Perspectives

Literacy

Numeracy

Technology/ICT

Enterprise Expo

Community Connection

Practical Components

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Meningie Agricultural Program 2024

Year 5/6 – Semester 2

Curriculum Outcomes Topics

Food & Fibre

Content
Design & Tech Content

Sci – Understanding

Sci – Inquiry Skills

Sci - SHE

Entrepreneurial Skills

Aboriginal Perspectives

Literacy

Numeracy

Technology/ICT

Enterprise Expo

Community Connection

Practical Components

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Meningie Agricultural Program 2024

Year 7 – Semester 2
Topics
Curriculum Outcomes
Plant Partnerships Links with Livestock Rainbow Trout & Yabbies

Cropping Dairy
Aquaculture Industry
Food & Fibre Horticulture Red Meat Industry
Yabbies
Content Bees Cows Create Careers Program
Rainbow Trout
Soils (Lucerne Paddock) Animal Welfare
Designing an investigation Plant-based milk alternatives
Design & Tech Content Designing logo and product
Separating fish based on weight comparisons

Pollination
Yabby Anatomy
Varroa Mite
Sci – Understanding Plant structure
Life Cycle
environment
Sil ecosystems
Variables Moisture loss comparisons
Sci – Inquiry Skills Comparisons Milk shelf life
Reproductive Cycle Investigation - Yabbies

Sci - SHE Welfare Welfare

Processing, marketing and selling Rainbow

Marketing Honey in a competitive Producing, packaging, marketing, and selling Beef Jerky
Entrepreneurial Skills market Profit and loss statements
Trout
Production Investigation – Rainbow Trout
Aboriginal
Ngarrindjeri Yabby and fish traps
Perspectives
Research task (Honeybee vs Native
Terminology
Bee)
Literacy Varroa Mite Research Task
Reflection
Communication
Practical Journals
Weighing
Calculate biomass of harvest Graphing
Comparing
Numeracy Square metres Finance
Graphing
Graphing Measuring
Finance
Cooling System
Excel
Technology/ICT NDVI imaging (heavily scaffolded)
Dehydrator
Filtering system
Self-feeders

Enterprise Expo Honey Beef Jerky N/A

Vic Woolston (Bees) Clem and Lea Mason – Masondrina Visit

Community
Bill (Bees)
Connection
Michael Camac (Agronomy)
Paddock observations
Managing Flow Hive
Practical Components Soil sample Experiments
Fertiliser Experiments
Glen & Tracy – visit for processing.
Tintinara TFI Feedlot
Remarkable Natural - Yabbies
Lakeside Quality Butcher
Managing stock/troughs Feeding & Flushing Fish
Preparing beef jerky Catching fish and separating
Cows Create Careers (feeding calves, advocate, Zoom Catching yabbies and separating
session) Final catch

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Meningie Agricultural Program 2024

Year 8 – Semester 1

Topics
Curriculum
Outcomes
Fencing Feed the World Pig Production

Domestic & export production

Food Wastage Biosecurity
Food & Fibre Sustainability Breeds & purposes.
Content Productivity Housing
Farm Systems Management
Cuts
Designed solutions
Design & Tech
Materials Producing a product Designing stimulation toys
Content Evaluations
Climate Change
Friction
Sci – Understanding Substances & materials
Substances & reactions Reproductive Systems
Chemistry
Sci – Inquiry Skills Weight gain

Sci - SHE Responding to food wastage due to fruit fly Welfare

Costing
Entrepreneurial How can we sell our pork?
Contracting business – what’s your rate per Fruit Fly – Let’s Innovate!
Skills hour?
What’s the price for our pork?
Aboriginal
Substances & mixtures
Perspectives
Reflection
Journalling
Literacy Communication
Recording & comparing
Journalling
Procedure writing
Area & Perimeter Recording weekly weights
Measurement
Numeracy Order forms Feed conversion ratio
Finance Graphing
Drones
Canva – Infographic
Technology/ICT NDVI imaging Cooking technology
Auto drafter/scales
Farm mapping apps
Orange peel invention display/can also sell Bacon? Sell some carcass as cuts, get
Enterprise Expo N/A
products other parts of carcass as bacon
Community
N/A N/A Braden Cocks – Visit?
Connection
6 x 3 metre post to post sections in
Pig Feeding
Practical laneway. Finding a solution to wasting citrus from fruit
Making pig toys
Components Small group work with straining and tying fly – can the rind be repurposed?
Weighing pigs
off plain wire, cyclone, and barb

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Meningie Agricultural Program 2024

Year 9/10 – Semester 1

Topics
Curriculum
Outcomes
AgriTech Cropping & Pests, Weeds & Diseases Sheep/Cattle (choice)
Biosecurity
Drones Varieties & purposes Breeds & purposes.
Satellites Monocots & Dicots Ruminant nutrition
Food & Fibre
Data Collection Crop rotations Production
Intelligent Ear tags Impact on pests, weeds & diseases Welfare
Feedlot
Future solutions design (product or
service) Designer Crop Task (evaluating and redesigning a
Design & Tech Evaluations/feedback biosecurity service that would positively benefit their Shearing shed/cattle yard business design
Design a purpose for a drone and create patch of crop)
a practical procedure
Digestive systems
Classification
Dissections
Sci – Plant reproduction Acidosis
Understanding Plant breeding Genetics
Reproduction
Crop monitoring Lamb/calf growth rates (feedlot)
Sci – Inquiry
Insect biodiversity investigation Impact of marking (tag, vaccinate, castrate)
Skills
Crop investigation Condition scoring analysis on ewes with twins
Sci - SHE Role of technology Crop biosecurity Live Export Debate
Invoicing
Entrepreneurial Seasonal value adding
Formal product/service proposal Business creation
Skills Crop budget investigation – is it worth it?
Gross margins
Aboriginal Aboriginal designs and their purpose –
Native grains & sustainable cropping Comparison of fibres
Perspectives comparisons to current technology
Reflections
Terminology
Terminology Terminology
Literacy Forming debating
Evaluation Report writing
Persuasive writing
Formal language
Costing yards/shed for assessment.
Data collection
Numeracy Weight data/gains
Graphing
Graphing
Probes
Technology/ICT AgriTech Blog – Website Design Formal report formatting Sheep AED-AR App (iPad)
NDVI imaging
Steer Show Team*
GRDC – Bread (wheat) unit *could use harvested
Enterprise Expo Presentation Presentation
wheat) (Denice)
Feedlot lamb to use for hospitality
Jason Schulz
Community AgriTech Field Day – Meningie Area (for Vandembrinks
Wayne Lehmann (Flairdale)
Connection students) Michael Camac
Craig & Chelsea Swan
Drenching/Backline
AgriTech Field Day – Meningie (for 3 students – 1m² patch (choose grain) – conduct soil
Practical Vaccines
students) samples, moisture tests, biomass, pests &
Components Animal Behaviour
Drone?? fertilisers/sprays comparisons.
Health checks

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Meningie Agricultural Program 2024

Key dates
Enterprise Expo Mid-August (Week 4 Term 3)

Heifer Expo July-August

Royal Adelaide Show 1st – 7th September

TFI Tintinara Feedlot – Schools Tour October

Urrbrae Careers Expo September

Livestock, equipment & materials required to support curriculum program

- Garden beds
Year 4/5 - Beerenberg strawberry & Lenswood excursion
- Pumpkin & watermelon patch in steer pens

- Garden beds
Year 5/6
- Laying hens & meat birds (use for 7 weeks)
- Cows Create Careers (Term 2)
- Trout & Yabbies
- Flow Hive with bees
- Soil testing kits
Year 7 - Crop
- Moisture probes
- Vegetable gardens
- Honey packaging

- Fencing equipment & test posts (for quantity of whole class)

- Drone
Year 8
- Cooking space/equipment
- Pigs

- Lambs (6 month old??) & Ewes

- Fertilizers/sprays
(with day old lambs)
- Microscopes
- AgriTech Blog Field Day organised.
Year 9/10 - Cattle (steers)
- Drone
- Aussie red bull calves
- Crop (testing area)
- Dissection samples (Darcy??)
- Soil testing kits & probes

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