How do farmed animals affect our world?

In this unit, students investigate the impact of farmed animals on the environment. They engage in investigation and with texts, models, and data sets to explore the impact of farmed animals’ lives on the world and their communities and generate ideas for mitigation.

Working with large data sets, mathematical reasoning, and models, phosphorus, algae blooms, impacts of chemicals on water, biological systems farmed animals.

This unit has a creativity and critical thinking focus:

• Seek and explore ideas about how farmed animals impact the environment and for the mitigation of animal waste 

• Imagine and compare different perspectives on the impact of animal waste

• Generate, select, implement, and evaluate ideas for how to investigate the impacts of animal waste on freshwater

Web and Print

• Animals include but are not limited to: pigs, cattle, egg-laying hens, chickens

• For further study https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/may/21/human-race-just-001-of-all-life-but-has-destroyed-over-80-of-wild-mammals-study 

• Algal Bloom

• Various classroom materials and recycled materials.

Others

• Access to research tools (phones, computers, etc.), Cookbooks, cooking materials and food, scales

• Animal-free jelly candy

• Waste from different animals

Opportunities to Adapt, Extend and Enrich

• Have students locate resources in their community related to alternatives to animal agriculture. 

• Visit a local restaurant that does not use animal products

English Version

• https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qqIYz_A-ADzDOY04gEMzMBdNEslSQ6wQuiTP4ymsmJ0/edit?usp=sharing 

Hindi Version

• https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pAMHH0mHYkx8vTQE0MHh4p7DTxV96wR3TNGiE3OKQuw/edit?usp=sharing 

Gujarati Version

• https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jaHEsh42fIc5d2naCAUexvemPcBnUrFO-EggYGYsGSg/edit?usp=sharing 

Kannada Version

• https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QBGpfapc_1Irf7hVkOh34leqTsoo7mgkwtMwTVMEinU/edit?usp=drive_link