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Victorian Essential Learning Standards
Use of this learning and teaching activity may contribute to achievement of the Standards in Interpersonal Development, English, Humanities and Thinking Processes for Levels 2 and 3.
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Farm Web Information table – the dairy industry
Farm web cards |
Prompt questions |
Butter |
What are some other examples of dairy products?
Where do we buy butter from? |
Supermarket |
How does butter get to the shop? |
Transport |
What is butter made from?
Where does it get made into butter? |
Dairy factory |
Who ensures the quality of the butter processed at the factory? |
Food scientist |
How is milk transported to the factory? |
Milk tanker |
Who sells milk to the tanker driver? |
Dairy farmer |
Where does the farmer get the milk? |
Dairy cow |
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Issues to discuss and consider
Butter is produced from churning milk or cream. It is possible to make butter in the classroom by shaking a container of heavy whipping cream vigorously for 10 - 15 minutes. This is possible because cream is a combination of butterfat and water molecules, the butterfat being suspended in the water. When the liquid is shaken, the molecules of butterfat collide and stick together. The clumps get bigger and bigger until butter is formed! Special trucks are needed to transport milk from the farmers’ properties to the dairy factory to pick up milk that we will later drink! This truck needs a tank on the back that is 100% clean.
For other examples of paddock to plate chains using the meat, fruit, fisheries, forestry, grain and wool industries visit www.landlearn.net.au > curriculum activities > for classroom use > food & food production
Other activities
Ollie’s Island: Looking at where stuff comes from, how we use it, and how this affects our world. Sustain Ability International Pty Ltd. (2007) www.olliesworld.com
Young Explorer. MarketFresh (2007) www.marketfresh.com.au > Young Explorer
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Career Profile - Senior Farm Business Analyst
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