A tour of the Farm: Farmer Tom's Canola Fields

A tour of the Farm: Farmer Tom's Canola Fields

Duration: 1 minute

Age 5 - 14 years

Curriculum topics: plants, seasonal changes

The first stop on our tour of the farm is the rape seed field. How long do you think it’s taken for these crops to grow taller than Farmer Tom? Why not use this video to inspire your pupils to think about:

·       bees and pollinators

·       soil health

·       lifecycle of a plant and…

·       …how the farm uses science to work with lifecycles

See what questions they come up with and encourage them to find out more about their interest in farming. Don’t forget to use the Question Makers!

Find out more about Farmer Time here.

Farmer Tom’s tour of the farm videos were created for the Great Science Share for Schools to provide an inspirational real-life setting from which to generate your questions and develop a science investigation.

Listen, think and share your questions