Synopsis

Students are involved in turkey processing day. Parent volunteers brought equipment and walked students through the process. The intention was to help them learn the anatomy of turkeys inside and out, note differences of males and females, understand the process from farm to plate, and note weight differences before and after processing to see how much of the animal is used. They also noted temperature effects throughout the process that tied in to their particle and temperature unit in science. 

Alberta Outcomes:

Science:

• investigate how particles of matter behave when heated or cooled and analyze effects on solids, liquids, and gases.

• Expansion & Contraction

• make a hypothesis

• gather evidence

Math:

• solve problems, using standard algorithms for addition and subtraction.

Language Arts:

• Offer relevant information and logical reasoning to enhance collaborative dialogue.

• Reflect on and share new, expanded, or adjusted learnings resulting from collaborative dialogue.

• Revise or confirm predictions based on new or additional information and sources.

• Write to inform, explain, describe, or report for a variety of purposes and audiences.

Charter:

• demonstrate safe behavior around animals 

• identify human uses of animals in our barnyard: Basic understanding of where food comes from.

• identify body parts of a turkey