Tocal Virtual Farm support resources
Scroll through to see the range of resources to support your use of the Tocal Virtual Farm include:
Property and Farm Data
Available in pdf format for distribution to students and colleagues. This document will be updated regularly.
(2019 update)
Teaching guides and student workbooks.
The teacher guides link to a range of fully writable pdf documents mapped to various K-12 NSW syllabus outcomes and KLA areas.
Secondary
Stage 4
Use the Tocal Virtual Farm for student in years 7 & 8 working towards the agricultural outcomes of the Technology Mandatory syllabus
Stage 6
The following workbooks are for NSW Agriculture Preliminary Farm Case Study with additional Stage 5-6 outcomes mapped
All secondary stages
Student workbook for site visits to Tocal
Primary
(NSW Stage K-6 Syllabus)
Activity sheets for the Tocal Farms picture books can be found here
Download spatial data for Tocal to use in student projects
This data can be used in Google MyMaps or other mapping software. Download the file (in KML format) and import it to student projects. Students will then be able to change the farm layout, use the measuring tools and add layers or features as they explore property planning and farm management.
Video transcripts
Videos transcripts are available for all videos in the Virtual Farm playlist.