Teachers

** Please note ** This is a downloadable resource. Upon submitting your order, you will receive an email from orders@georgethefarmer.com.au which will contain the download link for the resource/s. Thank you!

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The forests of Australia serve many important purposes. They provide habitats for plants and animals and places for recreation, enjoyment, and culture. Trees in forests help clean our water, protect our soils, and help fight climate change by capturing and storing carbon from the atmosphere in their wood.

Productive sustainably managed forests provide us with renewable wood products (timber), paper (wood fibre), and other forest products like honey. It is important that forests are managed sustainably – for today and forever - to balance these competing demands. A small area of Australia’s forests are used to produce a sustainable source of wood and wood fibre. They are like farms — every tree that is grown and harvested is again replaced with at least one more, just like a crop.

In forestry, trees are the crop being grown to produce wood products (timber) and wood fibre (for paper and board).

Whereas our farmers can grow and harvest a plant crop once or more a year, it can take up to thirty years or longer for plantation trees to be ready to harvest, and even longer for trees in a native forest.

Although occupying only 1.5% of Australia’s total forest area, plantation forests produce more than 87% of the total annual log harvest and are therefore important to Australia’s wood and wood fibre supply.

This free curriculum-aligned educators guide for Foundation - Year 4 levels focuses on Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Maths and Sustainability (STEAM) subjects. 

This George the Farmer educational resource is intended as starting points for a cross-curricular approach to learning, based on the George the Farmer YouTube video “George the Farmer Forestry”  and its accompanying Virtual Reality (VR) experience ‘George the Farmer Forestry VR’ on YouTube or through the FarmVR app. Classes are encouraged to look at the video, the VR and read the lyrics to the song included in this resource. Don't forget to also complete the complementary Pine Plantations Forestry educators resource as well. 

The guide is divided into a series of Science, Technologies, Engineering, the Arts, and Mathematics (STEAM) activities aimed at students between the ages of 4 and 8 years. The activities seek to complement and extend the enjoyment students will experience from seeing the video, whilst at the same time meet some of the requirements of curriculum outcomes.

The activities in this resource can be printed out for students, or alternatively, display the activity page from the PDF on your interactive white board or import an activity page into your online teaching and learning environment such as Google Slides and have the students use their existing workbooks to complete the task.

This is a FREE curriculum-aligned guide. Enter your details to download the PDF. Payment details are not required.

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This curriculum-linked learning resource was produced by George the Farmer Pty Ltd for ForestLearning, an initiative of Forest and Wood Products Australia.

** Please note ** This is a downloadable resource. Upon submitting your order, you will receive an email from orders@georgethefarmer.com.au which will contain the download link for the resource/s. Thank you!

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This George the Farmer Educational Resource aims to raise awareness about plantation forests resources, management, the interrelationships within plantation forests, and farming forests.

Plantation forests are of great value, as they make an economic contribution to the country from timber production and employment, while also contributing to catchment protection, recreation, and climate improvement.

Growing trees in plantations is just like growing a crop of wheat or barley. Except instead of harvesting one crop a year, trees in plantations can take up to 30 years before they reach the right height and diameter for mills to process them into timber. The people who grow and manage these forests are known as foresters.

Australia’s plantation forests supply most of the timber and a significant proportion of the paper products used by Australians, and are considered some of the most sustainably managed in the world. The forests are considered some of the most sustainable in the world.

This free curriculum-aligned educators guide for Foundation - Year 4 levels focuses on Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Maths and Sustainability (STEAM) subjects. 

This George the Farmer educational resource is intended as starting points for a cross-curricular approach to learning, based on the George the Farmer YouTube video “George the Farmer Forestry”  and its accompanying Virtual Reality (VR) experience ‘George the Farmer Forestry VR’ on YouTube or through the FarmVR app. Classes are encouraged to look at the video, the VR and read the lyrics to the song included in this resource. Follow up this guide with the Sustainable Forest Plantations educators resource.

The guide is divided into a series of Science, Technologies, Engineering, the Arts, and Mathematics (STEAM) activities aimed at students between the ages of 4 and 8 years. The activities seek to complement and extend the enjoyment students will experience from seeing the video, whilst at the same time meet some of the requirements of curriculum outcomes.

The activities in this resource can be printed out for students, or alternatively, display the activity page from the PDF on your interactive white board or import an activity page into your online teaching and learning environment such as Google Slides and have the students use their existing workbooks to complete the task.

This is a FREE curriculum-aligned guide. Enter your details to download the PDF. Payment details are not required.

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This curriculum-linked learning resource was produced by George the Farmer Pty Ltd for Primary Producers SA (PPSA).

This project is supported by the Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment, through funding from the Australian Government's Educating Kids about Agriculture initiative.

Trees are all around us. Not only do they provide us with wood for products such as tissues, toilet paper, and houses, they also play an amazing role in sequestering and storing carbon from the atmosphere while also releasing oxygen as they grow. The Great Forest Hunt is the perfect storybook for curious little ones in your life. 

"When Jessie the kelpie takes off after a fox during a Sunday picnic, Lucy, Jack and Forester Courtney quickly follow. Will they find Jessie before the sun goes down?"

This is the twelfth book in the George the Farmer series. At 32 pages in length with 14 full-page, colour illustrations, it's the perfect, fun way to teach kids about sustainable tree plantations and all of the products that we get to enjoy from this wonderous fibre such as houses, fences, toilet paper and tissues.

Printed in South Australia on paper from well-managed forests using environmentally friendly vegetable-based inks.

Take a look at our FREE complementary curriculum-aligned resources which focus on Pine Plantations. Watch our fun, musical seed-to-shelter 7-minute video on Pine Plantations.