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

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

Duration: 2 minutes

Age 5 - 14 years

Curriculum topics: animals including humans, everyday materials, living things and their habitats

We’re out in the green field for the third stop on our tour of the farm. Meet Poppy and Pickle, the black sheep that fit right in at the Great Science Share for Schools! Use this video to inspire your pupils to think about:

·       milk production and it’s use in nature and industry

·       the lifecycle of animals

·       sheep’s wool in textiles

See what questions they come up with and encourage them to find out more about their interest in farming. Use Question Makers to help get the ball rolling!

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