New Topic - Resource Use

For the next 2 and a half weeks, we are going to study renewable resource use in the context of dairy farming.

Case Study: Mr Wootton's Dairy Farm in Pukekawa

Acheivement Standard 90204 - 3 External Credits.


Focusing Questions

1. Describe perceptions of resources: renewable, non-renewable, sustainable management.
2. Describe the distribution pattern of farming in New Zealand.
3. Describe the annual cycle of a dairy farm (winter, autumn, summer, spring).
4. Describe the system of dairy farming (inputs, processes, outputs, feedbacks).
5. Describe how different people perceive the environmental impacts of dairy farming and the measures taken to resolve these impacts (natural and cultural, renewable and non-renewable, resource sustainability).