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Choose 6 tasks that you would like to complete.

 

Imagine you are a farmer in the year 2009. Write a newspaper article:

  • headline
  • story
  • photograph

about the improvements in the way land has been developed since 1999.

Prediction poster

Design a poster to alert Australians to "What would happen if..." we continue to develop land as we have in the past.

 Create a pictorial story or a cartoon strip about traditional Aboriginal gathering and hunting practices. Indicate the conservative nature of this type of agricultural practice.
You will be interviewing a scientist from the CSIRO about recent developments in the Australian agricultural industry. Prepare 3 questions and answers. Record the interview.

Imagine you are one of the following people:

James Ruse, John Macarthur, Peppin brothers, Smith brothers, John Ridley, H.V. McKay, William Farrer.

Develop a diary recording your important contributions to agriculture.

 

Create a collage that symbolises the significant developments in Australian agriculture. Design a set of overlay maps to illustrate the gradual increase of pastoral lands in Australia from 1800 to the present.

You have been employed by the Department of Agriculture to produce an information brochure about one of the following:

  • wool industry
  • wheat industry
  • pasture development
  • high technology marketing.

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