Students will work through a manufacturing work flow simulation by making paper airplanes to meet a quota within a specific time frame.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
This unit will introduce students to trusses. Students will follow the Engineering Design Process to build a balsa wood truss that can be tested for efficiency.Prior to assinging this project, it is reccommended that you access the Design Process Lesson available through OER authored by Matt Bova and Devon Rupp.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lecture
This lesson presents students with information regarding the differences between ruminant and monogastric digestive systems. The project portion of this lesson allows students to work in small groups and get creative to demonstrate their knowledge of these two digestive systems.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
Students will be able to use correct terminology for livestock (e.g. bovine, steer, ewe, ram). This lesson is used in exploring agriculture, animal science lesson. Written by Kathryn Savat.
Material Type: Lesson
Students will analyze animals against a standard ideal, and explain the relationship between an animal’s form and function.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lecture Notes, Lesson Plan
This lesson explains directional terminology used to describe the positions of structures relative to other structures or locations in the body. Learners will apply directional terminology by dissecting a three-dimensional object. Lesson developed from original resource by Bobbi D. Dittmer.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson Plan
This presentation shows images of animal organs to aid in identification. Accessed in 2022 from Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences. Cover photo by Creab Mcselvin via Unsplash.
Material Type: Diagram/Illustration
Biosecurity is an essential part of maintaining a herd's health as well as the profitability of the operation. This site provides easy to use and comprehensive resources for assessing the current biosecurity protections in an operation, an example of a biosecurity plan, a template for creating a biosecurity plan, and information on communicating to stakeholders about a crisis.
Material Type: Homework/Assignment, Reading
This activity is a web-based inquiry on how to control the spread of rabies in a community. Students are given a hypothetical situation in which rabies has been found in their home community. Interaction between the people, pets, wildlife, and livestock in the area is emphasized. An informative lesson on rabies is included. Students are asked to use different resources to research and develop an action plan to stop the spread of rabies in their community.
Material Type: Homework/Assignment
This lecture with slides introduces the functions of ruminant animals, parts and processes of the ruminant digestive system, and details the first two components of the digestive system of ruminant animals. Created by: Arelene Barrett, Dennis Bratton, Mariah Gumphry, Haley Vrazel
Material Type: Lecture
This lesson introduces principles of small animal health care with research to identify and describe common diseases or parasites, symptoms and causes, treatment, and prevention.
Material Type: Homework/Assignment, Lesson Plan
This lesson includes lectures about meeting the nutritional needs of animals to maintain animal performance, analyze feedstuffs for quality, and determine whether or not a feed ration fulfills a given animal’s nutrient requirements. From New Mexico Animal, Plant, and Soil Science Lesson Plan Library.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Assessment, Homework/Assignment, Lecture Notes, Lesson Plan
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.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Assessment, Diagram/Illustration, Homework/Assignment, Lecture Notes, Lesson Plan
This lesson plan explores the difference between good and poor quality feedstuffs by learning the functions of feed, identifying feed types and characteristics, and identifying how animals are fed. Lesson plan from the New Mexico Animal, Plant, and Soil Science Lesson Plan Library.
Material Type: Assessment, Diagram/Illustration, Lecture Notes, Lesson Plan
The uses of animals in biotechnology are expansive, and many times overlooked. This lesson will have students exploring the wide range of uses of animals in biotechnology and formulating an opinion about the uses of animals in biotechnology.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Homework/Assignment
In this lesson, students will practice vocabulary for veterinary suturing, and apply when and where these procedures would be used in animal health care and surgery. Developed by Lynne M. Cook, Tift County High School, Georgia.
Material Type: Homework/Assignment, Lesson Plan
This dissection laboratory content and activity will familiarize students with the major internal and external anatomical features and structures of the perch fish and with the functions of each part and system.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
This lesson presents an overview of the role of genetics, breeding, and reproduction in animal agriculture. Learners will become familiar with fundamentals of genetics, complete a Punnett square, understand phenotypes and genotypes, identify parts of reproductive systems, and discuss breeding systems used in the animal industry. This represents a portion of the Introduction to Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources (AFNR) series in Nebraska middle and high school agricultural education.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Assessment, Homework/Assignment, Lesson Plan
What does a technology look like that will change the world? Biotechnology has the power to alter all of our lives. The ability to manipulate genes in ways that benefit people is a powerful technology. In this lesson we will explore various benefits and applications of biotechnology. You will analyze different perspectives in the race to create biotechnology. From there you will decide how you feel about “playing with genes” and how that will impact your life.StandardsBio.B.3.2.4 Students will apply scientific thinking, processes, tools, and technologies in the study of genetics.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
Animal Welfare vs Animal Rights Debate Grade Level: 9th-12thSubject: Animal ScienceDuration: 5 daysDOK Level: 4SAMR Level: Substitution Indiana Standard: AS-7.4 Explain the implications of animal welfare and animal rightsObjective: Given a debated livestock issue related to animal welfare, students will be able to understand both sides of the issue, and effectively persuade others in making a decision about the issue.Procedure: Have the students compare and contrast the terms “animal welfare” and “animal rights”.Have a class discussion on the impact of the differencesGroup the class into partnersHave them research and make a list of five animal right issues related to the agricultural industryHave a class discussion on the topics researched. As a class narrow down the list.Have each pair pull a topic and side out of a hat.Explain the Debate Project expectations and grading rubric.Allow class time for research.Have the students submit a list of statements and supporting facts after day 2.Have the students submit a rough draft of their opening and closing statements after day 3. Debates will be done on day 5Product or Assessment: Students will be graded on their submitted facts and rough draft. The rubric will be used to grade the debate on the given day.Credits: Renee Wangler, Agriscience Instructor - Newaygo County Career-Tech Center
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