Education Resources
The Belgenny teaching resources have been developed to support students in either an onsite or online visit to the historic Belgenny Creamery. Students undertaking these units will consider the way that science and technology have changed and improved agriculture over time.
Each unit focuses on a stage-specific strand of the NSW Science and Technology K-6 syllabus (Australian Curriculum outcomes are also available in the appendix of each unit) while incorporating understanding and development of knowledge from a number of other learning areas including geography, maths, English and history and incorporating critical and creative thinking.
Education resources - Belgenny Creamery
Teaching units
- Introduction (PDF, 861.59 KB)
- Early stage 1 - What is milk made of? (PDF, 1186.15 KB)
- Stage 1 - A day in the life of a dairy cow (PDF, 469.54 KB)
- Stage 2 - Dairy know-how (PDF, 764.23 KB)
- Stage 3 - Cream, cheese and the dairy cow (PDF, 692.47 KB)
- Multistage - What's so special about Camden Vale Special Milk? (PDF, 474.02 KB)
Learning journals for students
- Early stage 1 (PDF, 20149.13 KB)
- Stage 1 (PDF, 29257.23 KB)
- Stage 2 (PDF, 32566.24 KB)
- Stage 3 (PDF, 32492.52 KB)
- Multistage (PDF, 21071.09 KB)
Site visits
- Book a site visit through Belgenny Farm.
- Take a virtual tour
Support resources
Belgenny Farm Timeline
- Download the timeline file from Dropbox and save it on your computer (somewhere you will be able to find it later.
- Download and install the free tiki-toki viewer. A video guide is available if you are uncertain about this step.
- Open the viewer and open the timeline file you saved to your computer in Step 1. (belgenny_timeline_tikitoki.tki)
You can also download a Belgenny Farm timeline (PDF, 144.7 KB).
Videos/Images
- Videos
- Belgenny site images, diagrams and maps
- Transcript: Robotic dairy video (PDF, 67.19 KB)
- Transcript: Hand milking video (PDF, 64.26 KB)
- Transcript: Tocal dairy video
- Belgenny Walking tour (PDF, 55.41 KB) (Script for app)
Creamery interpretive boards
Download these PDFs to review the content of creamery interpretation.
- Room 1 Smokehouse (PDF, 9691.77 KB)
- Room 2 Science of milk (PDF, 8727.4 KB)
- Room 3 Colonial era (asset_summary_666436%)
- Room 4 Mechanisation PDF, 6205.81 KB
- Room 5 Creamery (PDF, 7806.55 KB)
- Room 6 The Macarthurs (PDF, 9590.65 KB)
- Room 7 Modern era (PDF, 12507.42 KB)
Other Educational resources.
The NSWDPI Schools program has a variety of educational resources on the website that meet curriculum requirements. You can visit their website to explore further.
