The Agriculture-4-U teaching vision is for all the school children in the UK to have a basic knowledge of where their food comes from and how it is produced from an early age.
"Food is a precious resource which we can no longer take for granted" - George Alagiah on Future of Food a recent BBC series
Units with videos include
1b Growing plants
2a Health growth
2b Plants animals
3b Help plants grow
4b Habitats
5b Life Cycles
6.1 Investigating Local Area
7b Reproduction
9a Inheritance selection
9c Plants photosynthesis
9d Plants for food
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Primary Curriculum Theme "Farmers v Bugs" - try it now free
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Bring the outdoors indoors in one click….
Now you have watched the sample video just think how
Classes of all ages and abilities will love the WOW factor of seeing:
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farm animals being born,
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close-up action of tractors,
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harvesting,
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farm animals
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wildlife
So close you’ll think you’re down on the farm with them….
But why should you be showing our farming videos in your lesson?
Agriculture is an integral part of all our lives, and its importance is only set to increase. We would like all the school children in the UK to have a basic knowledge of where their food comes from and how it is produced from an early age so that when they become the future decision makers they will have a deeper understanding of the dilemmas created when producing food and then be able to tackle the challenges which lay ahead.
'He who has bread may have troubles.
He who lacks it has only one.'
Old Byzantine proverb
In today’s world man faces both these problems at once. Agriculture-4-U totally agrees with the closing statement of the recent BBC 'The Future of Food' series - "food is a precious resource which we can no longer take for granted"
With an ever increasing world population coupled with other demands on land, such as housing and now as a provider of energy in the form of biofuel and biomass, the food needed has to be provided from an ever smaller area.
This leads to more reliance on technology to achieve this which in turn produces its own problems; Agrochemicals, Fertilisers, GM Crops, Biodiversity, Conservation. Food Miles; Traceability of food, organic food, Amenity Land.
In order for future generations to address these issues they need to experience and understand farming by seeing what is happening down on the farm today. The aim of Agriculture-4-U is to achieve this by providing quality video which can be easily accessed and shown in all the classrooms in this country.
In an ideal world this experience would come via visits to farms, but the reality is that this is difficult and time consuming to arrange and rarely happens. Even when it does it can only ever be a snapshot of the life of a farm. Visiting a farm and seeing something exiting in 1 visit is possible but again rarely happens.
Agriculture-4-U provides the all year round action from down on the farm via videos. These videos are particularly useful for some specific pupil groups for several reasons:
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No smell, no tramping around in the mud (and worse), no extra staff, no weather restrictions – bringing up-close farming right into the classroom.
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School trips are important, but can be a logistical nightmare for a range of reasons, including health and safety considerations and form-filling, and staffing requirements
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As well as the curriculum linked lessons, you can also play the videos available to the general public in full screen format so you can use these in your classrooms too....
(Access these lesson from the teacher menu and then use the full screen control 
on the video player toolbar)
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