Filming on the farm

Click on the interaction below for ideas on filming farming activities with pupils. You will also find some further web links and resources at the bottom of the page.

Media

Short films

Here are some of the short films featured in the learning interaction:

  • What does a livestock farm look like?

  • What does an arable farm look like?

  • Example of a livestream to a farm

  • Example of a film made on a farm visit

  • Example of pupils making a film on a farm

  • Classroom farming stop-motion film

Resources

Here is a teachers pack and pupil workbook designed to help filming on the farm projects:

Here are some short films about different food production. More films about how food is made can be found here:

  • How sausages are made:

  • How milk is produced:

  • How vegetables are grown:

Web links

The Food for Life skills hub has some excellent tips on how to arrange a farm visits:

The Countryside Classroom has a farm finder to find farms that host school visits near to you

LEAF's Farmer Time links school with farms for regular livestream sessions

Related topics

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Filming in the kitchen View