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URBAN KIDS have a greater chance of actually knowing where milk comes from with DairyNZ's launch of a new education website.
It provides teachers with highly sought-after New Zealand-based resources. Teachers are now able to custom build lesson plans, through rosieseducation.co.nz.
DairyNZ brand manager Andrew Fraser says the website is designed to help teachers easily find interesting and up-to-date resources that meet their curriculum requirements.
"We've created something to make teachers job that little bit simpler," says Fraser.
"Through this, children learn about dairy farming and understand where milk comes from, and we believe this new site will be hugely instrumental in extending and growing the use of our teaching resources.
"We have put a lot of work into first making our resources engaging and easy to teach, and then making the process of resource selection and collation fast and simple," he says.
In the first week, over 100 teachers clicked into the site to create and download their own lesson plans from nearly 600 individual resources.
"Teachers have said they love the engaging nature and presentation of the resources, and being able to easily pick and mix according to their individual requirements," says Andrew.
"The local content makes it unique, because a lot of these kinds of web-based teaching resources are not New Zealand-specific."
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