Sheep Unit Plan
Verbal/Ling / Logical/Math / Visual/Spatial / Body/Kinaesthetic / Musical/Rhythmic / Interpersonal / Intrapersonal
Knowledge / *Information on pioneering and early day farming
*Other countries that produces wool / * Identify how many people in the wool industry and how much money involved
* Diseases that affect sheep / *List the uses of wool in fashion
*Use and treatment of wool / * Examine Woollen Mills and compare old to new / * Examine film conventions and development
* Examine song construction and development / * Identify jobs in wool industry
* Info on forming in pioneer and modern day
Understanding / *Comprehension questions on pioneering and early day farming
*Describe the examine different countries and their use for sheep / * Wool dying process and combination of fibres and wool blends
* Burning experiment of fibres and smells
* Merino suits in washing machine - shrinkage?
* Develop a presentation on the diseases that affect sheep
* Examine export graphs / * Comprehension questions on Woollen Mills new and old / * Create a fish diagram for a film or song / * Write a letter to your parents telling them that you are going to start a sheep farm / * Present information on one of the professions to do with the wool industry (groups)
Application / * How is pioneer farming related to modern day farming? * Write a Venn diagram to compare pioneering and modern day farming / * Experiment with Merino suit washing - graphs and % of shrinkage
* Experiment on fleece treated/untreated
*Burn PJs - analysis of unsafe and safe materials / * Create and item from wool - knitting, felting, crochet
* Dying wool / * Develop a doco film or song on sheep & primary industries as a storyboard / * Identify the features to sheep farming. What do you need? *Examine the details/costs of a particular sheep farming today (groups)
Analysis / * Guest speaker - modern farming
* What are the features of modern day farming? / * Examine the products that make children's PJs
* Guest speaker - Exporter / * How does woollen clothing products compare with non-woollen clothing products?
*Develop a folio of woollen products to be worn or used / * Visit Wool Museum, Geelong
* Visit CSIRO as an example of modern mill
* What are the features of milling?
* What are the features of the wool industry? / * Examine film text on sheep
- All Creatures Great & Small
- Docos etc / * Guest speaker – exporter
* Guest speaker - farmer
Synthesis / * Write a report about pioneering in the Kyneton area * Write a journal entry about a travelling shearer / * Write up the experiments - Scientific report -discussing how clothing could be changed
-treatment before end product
* Case Study of Farmer / * Develop a new or existing item using wool or woollen fibres * What solutions would you suggest for woollen fibres? / *Create some spin wool -cleaning, spinning & creating yarn / * Make a doco film or song using computers and technology / * Develop a presentation on a week as a sheep farmer include the hardships, the processes of buying and selling stock, wool products etc. / * Case Study of a farmer
Evaluation / * Do you agree that modern farming has come a long way from pioneering? Discuss (essay) / * Add to Scientific report a personal conclusion
* What do you think about Sheep farming as a worthwhile enterprise? / * What criteria would you use to assess the quality of a woollen product made by you? / * Write a report on excursion - what did you learn? / * Peer assessment of docos and songs
*What do you think about the media approach to informing people about sheep and the primary industry? / * What do you think about Sheep farming as a worthwhile enterprise?