4.6 You Decide
“You Decide” is a middle school agricultural literacy lesson that serves as a culminating activity for an Animal Welfare/Animal Rights unit. After reading an example “This I Believe” essay and brainstorming with a word web, students develop and write their own personal belief statement about animal welfare and production, addressing questions about using animals for food/clothing/work, pets, hormones/antibiotics, and confinement. Statements are evaluated with a 6+1 Trait Writing rubric.
At a glance
- Learning objectives
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- As a result of this unit the student will discuss animal issues.
- As a result of this lesson the student will develop a personal belief statement regarding animal welfare and production.
- Time required
- Instruction time for this lesson: 45 minutes.
- Grade level
- Middle School
- Materials
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- Overhead projector/transparencies
- Writing surface
- Dictionary
- Thesaurus
- MS.AI.4.6.TM.A – one per student
- MS.AI.4.6.TM.B – one per teacher
- MS.AI.4.6.RUBRIC.A – one per student
- Lesson Number
- MS.AI.4.6
- Curriculum
- Middle School Food and Agricultural Literacy Curriculum
- Precepts
- D. Character; D4. Respect Others
- Key Terms
- Animal Rights; Animal Welfare
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Aligned Standards
National Standards
- NL-ENG.K-12.12Applying Language Skills
- NL-ENG.K-12.5Communication Strategies – Students employ a wide range of strategies as they write and use different writing process elements appropriately to communicate with different audiences for a variety of purposes.