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.

Australian Primary Industries - Year 5 children at Rochedale State School have produced some great Projects on Australian Primary Industries as part of their Social Studies Unit. Includes wheat, cotton, beef, wool, sugar cane, dairy cattle, timber, poultry, pigs, peanuts & angora goatd.

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

Apples  

• How does a Batlow Apple grow? 

• The Packing Process

• Apple Varieties

• Buying & Storing Your Apples

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

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

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

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.

Chocolate The Cadbury's site is where you can find all about chocolate, how it's grown & made into a variety of products. 

Coffee Fact sheet from the ABC

Cotton  Cotton Australia's Facts & Figures pages. Click on the links to find the information you need.

How do people make crayons?

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

Fresh Fruit & Vegetables from the Fresh For Kids Website.

Honey Production

Dairy Australia's education resources 

• 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

How do people make paper?

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

How are pencils made?

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.

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

• Fun Facts about potatoes

• Everything Goes with Potatoes - NZ site

Rice This site from the Rice Growers Association of Australia.

• How Rice is grown

• Storage & Milling

• Uses of rice

How do people make sneakers?

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

• Sugar Cane by Dean

Wheat - From the Farm to You

Wool  Project by student at Rochedale State School, Qld.

• Wool facts

NSW CAP Research Module - Who will Buy?