In this lesson, students will investigate the different aspects of the poultry industry. Through a stations activity, they will define poultry terminology, anatomical names, feed calculations, breeds and different types of commercial bird housing.
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.
Students will compare and contrast different types of feed milling. Students will demonstrate different types of feed milling by using cereal.
Designing livestock facilities involves a lot of knowledge, research, and infering about the animals behaviors as well as human behaviors. In this lesson, students will receive a scenario of livestock that they are not familiar with and using their knowledge as well as research will design and build a model of their facilities.
Concise lesson plan template asking for the 'essential question', objectives, interest approach, content/procedure/activity, and closure/check for understanding. Developed by Matt Kriefels.