Collaborating with Terrace End School in Palmerston North

This week we've had the opportunity to Skype and talk with the students of Terrace End School in Palmerston North about a collaboration. They are studying Farming (and this week had a field trip to a farm as part of their study!) and their teacher, Mr Hurly wanted his students to talk to our students about Dairy Farming and have a question and answer session before their trip. We thought that it would a great way to share our learning.

We Skyped them Monday and they had some fantastic questions that made us think too: some of the most straightforward questions got varying answers:

• How long does a Cow Sleep for? 
• How long is a cow pregnant for?
• How many different kinds of cows are their on our farms?
• Does our New Zealand Milk go to other countries?

These two questions got all sorts of answers from our students - but we were able to check the information and come up with answers of four to five hours and 275 days.    We have collaborated in groups with a google doc and we are looking forward to sharing it back to the students of Terrace End School.