A Pig's Tale: High School Lesson Plans

A Pig's Tale is a series of high school lesson plans that explores different areas of pork production.

Lesson 1: Pigs and Pork- students will analyze pork production and products by diagramming cuts of meat and discussing how those cuts affect consumers.

Lesson 2: Pig Escape- students will participate in an Escape Box scenario to learn how grouping piglets and raising them in farrowing barns enhances their chance to survive and reproduce.

Lesson 3: Digesting DNA- students develop a model to explain how enzymes affect the digestive system of a pig as they grow through the weaning stage.

Lesson 4: Inheritance and Traits- students will communicate hte evidence of the inheritance and variation of traits by developing a model to build their own pig.

Lesson 5: Balanced Eating- students will analyze the nutritional needs of animals by creating a model of a balanced diet for a pig to explore the organization of their mongastric digestive system.

Kansas pork farmers have made the following educational resource available for download or you can email us for free copies for your classroom. You may print and reproduce this material for use in your classroom or other educational purposes.

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