The Soil Association has produced Mole's Dream, a short animation to explore current issues around food and farming. It is suitable for KS1 and early KS2, and ideal to use on your interactive whiteboard. In the story, Mole dreams of leaving a land of factory farms to find a home with sustainable farming, free range animals and wildlife.

The animation can be played as a story followed by some class discussion, or as a springboard into more detailed work on soil, animal welfare, food chains and food miles through the supporting materials. These will help deliver lessons around Science, Geography, PSHE and Citizenship.

Please note, to run this animation you must have Adobe Flash Player installed. To install or update your Flash Player, please visit the Adobe website.

Additional resources:

» read the ongoing Adventures of Mole every month on www.whyorganic.org

» download the Mole's Dream animation - this can be used in order to make the animation full screen for use on an interactive whiteboard

• Windows version [4.6 MB]
• Mac version [5 MB]

» download our supporting curriculum-linked teaching materials:

• Activity one: Healthy Soil - plough to plate - the story of food [PDF, 102 KB]
• Activity two: Healthy Soil - soil matters - give back what you take out [PDF, 102 KB]
• Activity three: Healthy Animals - animal welfare [PDF, 142 KB]
• Activity four: Healthy Environment - wildlife and food chains [PDF, 112 KB]
• Activity five: Healthy Environment - food miles [PDF, 99 KB]

» request a copy of the free supporting poster by emailing education@soilassociation.org or call 0117 914 2440