Tocal Virtual Farm teaching and learning resources

NSW Technology 7-8 syllabus 2023

Use the Tocal Virtual Farm for students in years 7 and 8 working towards technology outcomes in the food and agricultural practices context. Download now.

NSW Agriculture Stage 6 Farm Case Study

A set of workbooks to assist students to use the Tocal Virtual Farm for the farm case study. Download now (zip file).

Tocal Virtual Farm StoryMap

This online resource presents information about the Tocal Farms at a level suitable for primary age students and for use when working towards Science and Technology, Geography and History syallbus outcomes.

View the webpage here.

Background information and teaching support

This document provides background information and support for teachers when completing the student workbooks. Download it here.

Student Workbooks

This zip folder contains a separate workbook for each stage from Early Stage 1 to Stage 3. The workbooks are designed to guide student exploration of the Tocal Virtual Farm and give students an understanding of food and fibre production in NSW.

The workbooks can be downloaded here (in a zip file) for either printing or completing electronically.

Our picture books are written to share information about Australian agriculture with young children and students. In the back of each book there is a page describing the agricultural knowledge in the story. To help teachers and parents get the most from the books we have also developed a set of activity sheets. More information is available here.

The Zip file contains kmz files of the paddock layout and boundary of Tocal. These can be used in a number of mapping platforms that are free to use eg Google MyMaps. Download now.