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This George the Farmer Educational Resource aims to raise awareness about the sugarcane plant.

Sugarcane is an important rural industry for Australia, worth $2.5 billion to the economy annually. Approximately 3,700 cane farm businesses grow 30 million tonnes of cane each year. This cane is crushed and processed at 21 Australian sugar mills to produce 4.5 million tonnes of raw sugar and other by-products.

Sugarcane is a ratooning crop that will regrow for up to five or six years before needing to be replanted. Often farmers grow other crops like soybeans, peanuts or horticultural crops to break up the monoculture and assist with soil health. 

The complete sugarcane paddock to packet cycle contains multiple steps, from the planting of sugarcane through to the exporting of raw sugar crystals to international markets, or the refining and packaging of sugar for domestic use.

Although ‘raw’ sugar is the main product of Australian sugarcane, a host of other products are made from the sugarcane plant including ethanol, electricity, molasses, mulch, plastics, clothing, and pharmaceuticals.

This free curriculum-aligned educators guide for Foundation - Year 4 levels focuses on Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Maths and Sustainability (STEAM) subjects. 

The pages in this resource are intended as starting points for a cross-curricular approach to learning, based on the George the Farmer YouTube video “Sugarcane” and subsequent "In the Classroom" videos about sugarcane.

The activities seek to complement and extend the enjoyment students will experience from seeing the video whilst at the same time meeting some of the requirements of curriculum outcomes.

The activities in this resource can be printed out for students, or alternatively, display the activity page from the PDF on your interactive white board or import an activity page into your online teaching and learning environment such as Google Slides and have the students use their existing workbooks to complete the task.

This is a FREE curriculum-aligned guide. Enter your details to download the PDF. Payment details are not required.

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This curriculum-linked learning resource was produced by George the Farmer Pty Ltd for Canegrowers.