Inquiry Unit - Foundation - Year 2

Life as a dairy cow will spark curiosity in your students so they can investigate and understand more about raising and caring for cows on dairy farms.

This inquiry-based learning unit has a series of activities based on content descriptors from the Australian Curriculum in the Science and Design & Technologies learning areas, alongside suggested assessment tasks.

Students will explore the different types of dairy cows and discover their own understandings of where milk comes from and how it’s made. This is supported by group work, worksheets or creative presentations, alongside reflections as well.

Teachers are provided with suggested learning experiences supporting investigation into:

• exploring and defining systems used to raise dairy cows by observing and asking questions
• discovering the methods and technologies used on Australian dairy farms to support milk production
• explaining ways dairy cows are bred, raised and cared for

Further activities are designed to internally motivate students to explore, make connections and analyse the importance of dairy in society. These are available on the Discover Dairy website in the Activity Ideas PDF resources.