New Key Geography for GCSE Links - Chapter 14 - Farming

What are the UK’s main farming types? - pages 194 and 195 & Activity Sheet 14.4

ICT activity

The National Farmers Union has developed a “Farming and Countryside Education” website that provides resources that you can use in your classroom. These include a collection of case studies of UK farms

Click on the link, after you have read through the activity.
http://www.face-online.org.uk/

a) Select farm profiles or case studies, then choose Lynford House Farm in Cambridgeshire.
b) This case study includes an OS map extract and aerial photographs of the farm. Download these and copy and paste them into a DTP file.
c) Read the case study material on the website to help you label the map and photograph evidence that help to explain the type of farming taking place.

What are the main features of rice growing in India and Bangladesh? - pages 200 and 201

Riceweb
http://www.riceweb.org/countries/india.htm
This website provides a summary page about rice cultivation in India, together with a link to FOA data.

How is subsistence farming changing? - pages 204 and 205

What is the Green Revolution?
http://www.indiaonestop.com/Greenrevolution.htm
This online essay provides a useful summary of this major change to farming in India.

International Rice Research Institute
http://www.irri.org/
You can find out more about rice growing in LEDC at this website.

How is commercial farming changing? - pages 202 and 203

The BBC News website includes a special report about changes and consequences for farming in Britain
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/special_report/1999/09/99/farming_in_crisis/442787.stm

How can farming be made wildlife friendly? - pages 208 and 209
An information leaflet for RSPB’s Hope Farm - Activity Sheet 14.9

Investigate the information about Hope Farm on the website.
RSPB website
http://www.rspb.org.uk/wildlife/default.asp
Select Farming and wildlife and then Hope Farm
Alternatively from the RSPB homepage use the search facility on the site and type in “Hope Farm”.

1. Use the resources available on the website to create an information booklet about the farm using desktop publishing software, copy and paste resources from the website into your DTP booklet.

2. Things to include in the leaflet

a) A title page, which should include the logo of the RSPB
b) The aims of the farm
c) Images of the farm
d) An outline of how the farm is being managed in an environmentally friendly way
e) Images of the birds
f) The systems diagram you completed for Activity 2 on page 209 of the pupil’s book.

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