How food is canned The Australian Canned Food site has a diagrammatic flowchart of how fruit and fish are canned & labelled. There is also a section on prepared meals & soups in cans. Click on Education to download pdf files to use as educational support.

How everyday things are made? An introductory website for kids and adults showing how various items are made. It covers over 40 different products and manufacturing processes, and includes almost 4 hours of manufacturing video.

Farming Industries & Programs Choose from the agricultural or plant industries - lots to choose from.

KidCyber Select Animals, then click on Farm animals for easy-to-read information about orchards, special farms, grain crops, vegetable farms, farm machines.

KidCyber  Select Food & my body, then look under Food for easy-to-read information about chocolate, cheese, rice, cocoanuts, potatoes, tea.

4H Virtual Farm Select a farm-horse, aquaculture, beef, dairy, wheat, poultry.

Virtual Factory Tours

Pineapples Take a virtual pineapple tour to find out way pineapples are grown, processed, canned and arrive at supermarkets. This is a link to the Golden Circle site.

Cereals This is the Kellogg's Australia & New Zealand site. The study centre page you are now on has links on the right hand side - look for raw materials, methods of transport & packaging. 

• Study Centre downloads available in pdf format.

Chocolate The Cadbury's site has a virtual tour where you can find out about how chocolate products are made. The site needs Flash Plug-in to work at its best.

Biscuits This is the Arnotts' site where you can take a virtual tour of how biscuits are made.

Queensland Sugar This site tells you how can is grown & milled.

• Sugar Cane by Dean

Cheese The Bega Cheese site has information on how butter, cheddar cheese, & cheese slices are made. The FAQ's give you lots of information about the milk used to make butter and cheese.

Peanut Butter This is an American web site which tells you about how peanut butter is made.

Eggs The Golden Eggs site has excellent information about egg production.

Batlow Apples - 

• How does a Batlow Apple grow? 

• The Packing Process

• Apple Varieties

• Buying & Storing Your Apples

Milk Dairy Australia's student resources - click on the link to a simple pdf file "Diagram looking at the process milk takes from the farm to you"

• The Story of Milk - the US Agriculture Department site - small amount of easy information.

• Virtual Tour - The story of milk

• Pauls' Milk Products Student Information Well set-out information on how milk is made. The site also gives information about the products made from milk

About Rice This site from the Rice Growers Association of Australia.

Wheat - From the Farm to You

Bread Tip Top Bakery site. Click on the Virtual tour for terrific information. Easy to read.

Cotton for Kids  Cotton Australia's site. Click on the links to find the information you need.

Wool  Project by student at Rochedale State School, Qld.

• Wool facts

Potatoes Western Potatoes - From Farm to Plate. Easy information & pictures.

• Fun Facts about potatoes

Coffee Fact sheet from the ABC

Honey Production

Fresh Fruit & Vegetables from the Fresh For Kids Website.

How do people make sneakers?

How are pencils made?

How do people make paper?

How do people make crayons?

Quizzes

Which animal provides us with this product?

For Teachers

NSW CAP Research Module - Who will Buy?

How Products are Made - Extensive list in 7 volumes.