The Meat Industry Bigger and Better
Farm facts:
• Sheep and cattle are the most widely farmed animals in New Zealand. 44% of all farms in New Zealand are sheep and/or beef farms.
• In 2016 there were 27.58 million sheep and 3.47 million beef cattle in New Zealand.
• Beef production contributes significantly to the New Zealand economy, with total beef exports worth around $2.8 billion annually
New Zealand relies on farmers and scientists to grow high quality grass and produce meat to eat and trade.
Farm Trip Photos
More photos here.
Week Seven
Task One: Post a reflection on Seesaw. Include one or two photos.
What did you enjoy about the farm trip?
What did you learn about during the farm trip?
What surprised you?
What do farmers need to think about?
Task Two:
- Create a google doc with the three headings: Input, Output, Factors Outside the Farmers Control.
Make a list of things for each category. If you can't remember, have a look at the photos from the farm trip.
Task Three: Draw the life cycle of a farm animal. Use google draw.
Use theappropriate farming vocabulary that indicates
the age, stage, and gender of the animal. e.g. (bobby
calf, bull, calf, cow, dam, ewe, ewe-lamb, heifer,
hogget, lamb, maternal sire, mutton, ram, ramlamb,
steer, terminal sire, two-tooth, weaner,
wether).
Task Four: Problem: Bobby calves (boy calves) do not produce milk so they are of little value to the dairy farmer.
They are not economically productive for a dairy farm.
What should farmers do with their bobby calves? Open a google doc and write some solutions.
Week Eight and Nine
Presenting Time!
Choose what to do first:
Either plan and create a presentation or create a skit/role play to tell use about farming. Some people might like to do both.
Presentations:
- Plan your presentation. Make your own copy of the plan. Put all the words that are going to be on your slide show in your plan.
- Create a slide show.
- Practise your speaking with the slide show.
- Present your slide show to an audience.
Skits/Role Plays
- Plan your skit/roleplay. Make your own copy of the plan.
- Create your skit/roleplay.
- Practise your skit/roleplay.
- Record your skit/roleplay.
- Present your skit/roleplay to an audience.
Week Five
Bull Market video:
Watch the video and them answer the questions below on padlet.
(I am going to have to invite you to the padlet, if I know your last name I have invited you already because I need to know your email address. Some of you will have to tell me the first letter of your last name so I can invite you)
Here is a link to the Bull Market video.
What is a bull?
Why do farmers need them?
What do farmers do to make observations and record data?
Why is the production of bigger and better bulls important to the redmeat industry?
What is meant by “bigger and better” in this context?
Cross Breeding
What would happen if you bred thesse two cows? Draw what you think the calf would look like.
How do calves inherit their characteristics from their parents?
Watch the video.
Week Four
No Slip No Trip!
There are still quite a few people who have not returned their permission slips. I can't take you out of the school without it. Please return it asap!
We need 4-5 parent helpers to come on the trip with us. Please ask your parents if they can come. If they can email Mrs. DJ at bridgetd@arahoe.school.nz
Task One
Which one is which?
Have a look at these cows. What characteristics do you notice?
Sort the cows into groups with the same characteristics then find out about New Zealand's main breeds of cows. Fill in the google doc.
Week Three
Welcome to the Meat Industry Unit
WALT:
- recognise that there are life processes common to all living things and that these occur in different ways.
• Understanding how science helps farmers in New Zealand.
- Explore how the groups of living things we have in the world have changed over periods of time.
Fill in the KWL chart. Then watch the video, Raising the Steaks, make notes in your chart.
1) Why is the meat industry really important to us?
2) What do farmers do?
3) What things do farmers do to collect data and act like scientists?
Bull Market video:
Watch the video and them answer the questions below on padlet.
(I am going to have to invite you to the padlet, if I know your last name I have invited you already because I need to know your email address. Some of you will have to tell me the first letter of your last name so I can invite you)
What is a bull?
Why do farmers need them?
What do farmers do to make observations and record data?
Why is the production of bigger and better bulls important to the redmeat industry?
What is meant by “bigger and better” in this context?
Week One and Two
Science is a way of explaining the world. Scientists observe closely and use their science knowledge to describe what they notice.
I know you have done this first bit before but this time I would like to collect your ideas so I know what you are thinking. Open the google doc, make your own copy and share it with the teacher.
