Student Activity Sheets – Lesson 3: Animal Production
This is a multi-part student activity packet on food-animal production and nutrition. Students match meals to the animal species that produced them, research a food-animal species (beef, broiler chickens, dairy, eggs, pork, turkey, or sheep/goats) to create a 5-minute “news broadcast” covering farm-to-fork production, hot-topic issues, animal welfare, and environmental impact, compare local grocery product costs, and analyze the nutritional value of foods. A presentation rubric is included for grading the “Teach the World” broadcast.
At a glance
- Grade level
- 9-10
- Materials
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- Internet access / provided source websites (Beef Checkoff, National Dairy Council, Pork Checkoff, American Goat Federation, American Lamb Board, National Turkey Federation, American Egg Board, National Chicken Council, etc.)
- MyPlate website (https://www.choosemyplate.gov/)
- Nutrition.gov website (https://www.nutrition.gov/subject/whats-in-food)
- Access to a local grocery store (e.g., Kroger, Walmart) for price research
- Colored pencils/markers (purple, green, orange, red, blue for nutrition categories)
- Food nutrition labels (Mountain Dew Soda, Ice Cream, Ground Beef)