Learning modules
PLEASE SEE THE "DOWNLOADS" SECTION FOR THE SCHOOL LEAFLETS WITH MUCH MORE INFORMATION! There are two module opportunities per day in addition to the introductory session. The modules are available at different levels to suit your own requirements (the most obvious levels are stated). Those listed below are a small sample of possibilities. The limit is imagination.
Endangered but not forgotten
Includes rare breed farm animals and red kite re-introduction.
Sc Levels C-F
Enterprise
How does this farm work and how can we apply thinking skills across all learning
all
Field to Fork
Farming: A look at a range of farming enterprises, and how we end up with the things we eat or wear.
Various
Futures
A look at sustainability and issues around social health.
Health Ed. Levels A- F
How big is it?
Using the farm to practice measurement and estimation. Can even extend to using figures collected to calculate the profits/losses of an enterprise such as egg production.
Making a cheese sandwich
Can be offered to meet a variety of curriculum needs. This programme involves making food from the farm products. It can be targeted at a variety of curriculum areas and ages ranging from following instructions, through, measurement, to microbes, healthy eating etc etc
all
Map and compass work
Various exerciese to show a practical application of maps and navigation
various
Microbes
Red KIte programme
Find out what the introduction of Sven and Ulrika to the Black Isle meant for Red Kites and why it was necessary. This programme will be developed with RSPB
Shetland Cattle
What can this rarest of cattle tell us about the way in which we use animals? Why did they decline and why should we want them to increase in population ?
Soils
Spinning and dyeing
Use fleece from our own sheep to make your own sheep and colour it using natural dyes
Sustainable building
This module uses our building as a context for considering issues around what a sustainable building is and the way in which we use energy.
Us and other things.
Our relationship with other things( living and non living) on the planet we share.
Science A - F
Waste
Looking at issues around waste of many types , from throwing it away to flushing the toilet .What are our responsibilities?
What's the use?
Looking at land use and/or resource use/conservation
Geog Levels A-F
