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Meat Processing Notes Guide
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Cow, Horse or Chickens?
What would be the advantages and disadvantages of each of these species 2,000 years ago? Overall, which one would you have chosen and why?
Read through Ms. Schwengel’s blog rubric before beginning, and submit your response by midnight on October 18th.
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Muscle to Meat Vocab Notes
Here are the notes we’ll be covering in class. Muscle to Meat Note Guide There are blanks where you’ll need to add words and phrases.
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Current Event #2 Revisions
This week we’re going to re-attempt the currrent event posts. Please look over the rubric and prompt from last week, and update your current event by midnight on Friday, October 11th.
An example of what I’m looking for is : Current Event Example
When summarizing the article, keep in mind the 5 W’s and 1 H- who, what, where, when, why and how.
When reflecting on the issue, some words you may choose to use include: guess, explain, estimate, assume, imagine, visualize, infer, speculate, believe, illustrate, forecast, project, remember, envision
Utilize easybib.com for your citation, and please check the box to include the URL
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Steps of Harvest Notes
Today we’ll be covering the steps of livestock harvest.
Please use this handout to take notes: animal Harvesting Steps
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Second Current Event
This week you’ll be doing your second current event post of the year, and your first with me, Ms. Schwengel. As you did for the first current event, I want you to explore what events are happening in agriculture and find something that you find especially interesting or want to know more about.
The source for your article must be from a reputable news source. Look at online and print articles from newspapers, radio broadcasts, government websites, organization websites or news programs.
For full points your blog must include:
-Nature of the issue-what is the issue?
-Where you found the article, story, or event (include the URL if found online)
-Summarize the issue-Explain what the issue is, who it involves, who maybe for or against it. Be sure not to plagiarize
-Your opinion of the issue-explain what you think, and why you think that
-What are the potential outcomes or consequences.
Please notice that while the components are similar to before, I am also requesting you include the URL for the article you are responding to.
The rubric has also been slightly adjusted, so please look it over before you begin.
Have fun! I look forward to reading your posts!
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Bug Profiles
Research ‘your bug’ and complete the following profile on it:
Resource to get you started:
Bad Bug Book: On page 6, you can click on the name of your bug. This will bring you to a summary.
Feel free to utilize additional resources by searching for valid websites
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Domestication and Importance of Livestock Writing Activity
Select one of the following prompts to write about in a blog post. Be sure to tell me in your post which prompt you selected.
1. Prepare a blog post summarizing one of the following (be sure to not simply copy put of the book): Trends in Animal Agriculture, Animal Rights Issues, and Food Safety.
2. Create graphs from the data presented in Table 1-5 that show the trends in livestock numbers in the US, and explain what they represent and why. Example: explain why the number of dairy cows has decreased.
Both blog posts are due on Friday, September 27th at midnight.
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Common Farm Animal Classification
We have discussed how we categorize things into different groups, and we have taken an in depth look at the hierarchy we use to separate all living things into groups. Now lets look at how we classify Common Farm Animals.
For this project you can select to create a digital presentation or create a digital poster for the Farm Animal you have selected. Your Project must include the following five items.
1. The animals Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genes, and Species.
2. A picture of you animal
3. The names and classifications for male animals (both castrated and intact), female animals (both young and old), and the name of the offspring.
4. What they eat as well as what kind of a digestive system they have.
5. A fun or interesting fact that you learned while creating your digital presentation or digital poster.
You will present you projects during the shortened class period on Thursday, September 19th.
First Current Event of the Year!
Being aware or local, state and national events is critical to being able to make informed decisions as an agriculturist. For this reason we will be summarizing and discussing current events on a biweekly basis.
You are to select a current event from any reputable source. This could include newspapers, government or organization (ex. South Dakota Cattlemen) website or publication, Brownfield Ag Today, News Programs, Radio Broadcasts. Once you have selected an Agriculture Current Event and researched it you are to create a blog post summarizing it. Your post should include the following:
-Nature of the issue-what is the issue? -Where you found the article, story, or event -Summarize the issue-Explain what the issue is, who it involves, who maybe for or against it. Be sure not to plagiarize -Your opinion of the issue-explain what you think, and why you think that -What are the potential outcomes or consequences.
Here is the rubric that will be used to grade your current Event Posts. Current Event Rubric
A great reliable source for current event information in Agriculture is Brownfield Ag Today. Lets set up accounts so you have easy access to this information.
Begin by going to Brownfield Ag Today
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