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
In this lesson, students will discover how to administer three different types of injections (Subcutaneous, Intramuscular, and Intravenous) though a hand-on activity. Students will use actual syringes and needles to administer medication to their animal (hamburger buns in a sandwich bag). Along with the injection lab students will learn the difference between medications and vaccinations, and why they are both important!
Material Type: Activity/Lab
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
This site includes 55 videos demonstrating veterinary techniques, introducing veterinary equipment and materials, explaining animal body systems and organs, aiding animal identification, and more.
Material Type: Lecture
What do you need to know to diagnose parasites? These slides introduce methods for identifying parasites by shape and size, number of legs, sex, and where found in the host animal or environment. Accessed 2022 from Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences PEER Program site.
Material Type: Reading
This activity will check students’ understanding of the swine ear-notching system of livestock identification. Credit @whiteoakffa and Sarah Nerswick
Material Type: Activity/Lab
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 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.
Material Type: Assessment, Diagram/Illustration, Lecture Notes, 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 many ways animals help and support people including providing food, clothing, companionship, and service, as well as secondary benefits like soil conservation and fertility, and stabilizing farm businesses with diversification of risk. Lesson plan from the New Mexico Animal, Plant, and Soil Science Lesson Plan Library.
Material Type: Assessment, Diagram/Illustration, 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
