Equine Facilities Project Grade Level: 9th - 12thSubject: Animal ScienceDuration: 4 daysDOK Level: 4SAMR Level: AugmentationIndiana Standard: AS-9.1 Identify facilities needed to house and produce each animal species safely and efficiently AS-9.2 Select equipment and implement animal handling procedures and improvements AS-9.3 Identify optimal environmental conditions for animals Objective: The students will be able to apply the principles learned in animal management to design a equine facilities that meets the needs of a given scenario. Procedure: Hold a class discussion on the requirements that need to be met to house a horse properly. Ask the students to answer the Following questions, “What do you feel is the most important need to address when planning a facility and why?” “What questions do you need to ask the owner?” Divide the students into pairs.Handout and explain the expectations of the Equine Facilities Project. Use google classroom to handout the project sheet and keep posted on the student's progress.Demonstrate the FBI Planner Program . Allow the students to research and use their own method to create the blueprint of the facilities. Day 2 Check progress of the students. Make sure the students have a plan and system to get the project completeDay 3 Check the students’ written descriptions for the project. Make sure there are no misunderstandings to this pointDay 4 Have the students present their ideas to the rest of the class. Product or Assessment: The students product will consist of a blueprint of the facilities and a written description describing the blueprint with reasoning/justification to the decision that were made.  

Students will learn about the difference in horse colors, leg makrings and face markings. 

This is a compilation of resources from the Nebraska Ethanol Board, including reviewing the economic and environmental benefits of ethanol.  All resources are produced by the Nebraska Ethanol Board.  https://ethanol.nebraska.gov/

The purpose of this lesson is to research artificial selection. During this lesson, we will use fast growing plant crossing to model traditional agricultural practices and we will use Punnett squares to predict plant crossing outcomes. We will also use online simulations to learn about current biotechnology techniques used to make genetically modified crops. We will compare traditional agriculture to current biotechnology techniques that are being used to create pest resistant crops. We will discuss how artificial selection such as selective breeding and genetic engineering can impact organisms over time.

Students will examine ways declining bee population can impact day-to-day life, by considering how the cost of honey and pollination has been affected in society. Students will create real-world problems that relate to statistics on the declining bee population.

Example lesson plan for Case 1 "The Food Chain,"  created by Tom Wolverton, Science Teacher at Vancouver iTech Preparatory, Vancouver School District. This lesson has students research Washington State's agricultural crops and commodities and then use the State Department of Health's nutrition guidelines for cafeterias to create a healthy, locally sourced, environmentally sustainable cafeteria menu

Intro to Stats Lesson 1 VideoComplete Intro to Stats Lesson 1 Packet - note you will need to use excel and online lesson dataClass Study Session for Help or a Workday - Complete Intro to Stats Lesson 1 Packet Practice ExamIntro to Stats Lesson 1 Exam (10 pts) Intro to Stats Lesson 2 VideoComplete Intro to Stats Lesson 2 Packet - note you will need to use excel and online lesson dataSubmit Intro to Stats Lesson 2 Packet excel work in blackboard submittal area (5 pts) 

Excel Capstone Assignment covering a wide variety of topics from formula creation, to lookup statements, charts, and graphics, all in a real-world project that can be used in businesses.

Learn about the exploitation of fish in local, country, and global entities and how you can combat the issue. 

This activity has students work together to summarize regional effects of climate change and other environmental issues, which a focus on how these issues may influence agriculture and water availability. Students present a region to the group and create a layperson summary of the effects of climate change and other environmental change on their region.

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Explore personal finance principles through the lens of agricultural life, work, and money management. Students begin with creating an ideal rural life vision board, then learn and discuss the financial management that would be required to work toward that lifestyle. Budgeting, tracking income and expenses, banking and investments are covered in slides and end in a project to reimagine the board game Life in an agricultural setting, with careers, properties, achievements, and events rewritten to be ag-related.

This lesson includes lectures discussing raising animals like llama, bison, alpaca, ratites, and an activity researching and planning a profitable business in the exotic breeds industry.  Resource originally from New Mexico Animal, Plant, and Soil Science Lesson Plan Library.

A Curriculum for Enhancing Farmer Microbial Literacy

Short Description:
The primary purpose of this course is to render the invisible world of microbes visible to farmers. This course provides scientific-based instruction exploring how microbes can assist agriculture. Although the course is designed for farmers, this material can also help extension agents, curious citizen scientists, and other non-experts interested in enhancing their microbial literacy.

Long Description:
The invisibility, complexity, and general opaqueness of soil microbial life makes learning about the “black box of soil” difficult. To address this challenge, my project-based biology senior thesis endeavors to develop a biology-based curriculum for farmers to increase microbial literacy. A transition to a microbially centric agriculture necessitates the development of a new knowledge infrastructure. My senior thesis project aspires to contribute to this new, necessary, and expanding infrastructure. It is critical that farmers recognize their unique role as stewards of not only plants and animals but also as shepherds of an unfathomably complex, necessary, and wondrous herd of microbes.

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This is a collaborative learning activity based on the documentaries "King Corn" and "Big River" in which students explore and propose solutions to sustainability issues associated with industrial agriculture and food systems.

This lesson explores the swine industry:  locating major physical characteristics, describing common breeds, selection of superior animals, and contrasting production systems and marketing methods of swine and hogs.  Adapted from New Mexico Animal, Plant, and Science Lesson Plan Library.

This is a page on the Fast Plants website, describing the F1 Non-Purple Stem variety of Fast Plants (Brassica rapa). This page includes suggestions for investigations and teaching applications using this seed variety, including use as a model organism in teaching Mendelian genetics with a monohybrid cross.

This is a page on the Fast Plants website, describing the F1 Non-Purple Stem, Yellow-Green Leaf variety of Fast Plants (Brassica rapa). This page includes suggestions for investigations and teaching applications using this seed variety, including use as a model organism in teaching Mendelian genetics with a dihybrid or monohybrid cross.

This is a page on the Fast Plants website, describing the F1 Rosette-Dwarf, Non-Purple Stem variety of Fast Plants (Brassica rapa). This page includes suggestions for investigations and teaching applications using this seed variety, including use as a model organism in teaching Mendelian genetics with a dihybrid or monohybrid cross.

This is a page on the Fast Plants website, describing the F2 Non-Purple Stem variety of Fast Plants (Brassica rapa). This page includes suggestions for investigations and teaching applications using this seed variety, including use as a model organism in teaching Mendelian genetics with a monohybrid cross.

This is a page on the Fast Plants website, describing the F2 Non-Purple Stem, Yellow-Green Leaf variety of Fast Plants (Brassica rapa). This page includes suggestions for investigations and teaching applications using this seed variety, including use as a model organism in teaching Mendelian genetics with a dihybrid or monohybrid cross.