Introduction to Animal Science

Kurt Murray
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Introduction to Agriscience

Unit ANS1: Nature and importance of agricultural animals (9 hours)

Benchmark ANS1-1: Students will discuss three areas of agricultural animals, including animal production, animal supplies and services, and marketing and processing.

Benchmark ANS1-2: Students will describe the scope and importance of agricultural animals to Oklahoma and the United States.

Benchmark ANS1-3: Students will list and explain ways animals and the products provided by animals help people.

Benchmark ANS1-4: Students will name common agricultural animals and identify their products and uses.

Benchmark ANS1-5: Students will explain the importance and practice of animal well-being and ethics.

Unit ANS2: Career entry and advancement in the animal industry (7 hours)

Benchmark ANS2-1: Students will identify occupations in the animal industry and list the competencies needed for occupational entry.

Benchmark ANS2-2: Students will name and describe important personal skills for success in the animal industry.

Benchmark ANS2-3: Students will identify education and training needs for occupations in animal agriculture.

Unit ANS3: Personal and occupational safety in the animal industry (4 hours)

Benchmark ANS3-1: Students will assess personal and occupational safety situations in animal science work and choose appropriate safety practices

Benchmark ANS3-2: Students will properly select, use, and maintain personal protective equipment when working in animal science.

Unit ANS4: The biology of agricultural animals (17 hours)

Benchmark ANS4-1: Students will identify agricultural animals by common and scientific names.

Benchmark ANS4-2: Students will classify agricultural animals using scientific classifications and as birds, aquatic animals, mammals, and others.

Benchmark ANS4-3: Students will name and explain the life needs of agricultural animals.

Benchmark ANS4-4: Students will identify major anatomical features of animals and explain differences among species.

Benchmark ANS4-5: Students will describe the major physiological features of animals, including body systems and their functions.

Benchmark ANS4-6: Students will identify sexual and age classifications of species of agricultural animals.

Unit ANS5: Genetics and reproduction (15 hours)

Benchmark ANS5-1: Students will explain the importance of genetics and heredity in animal science.

Benchmark ANS5-2: Students will define reproduction and describe the process of sexual reproduction in animals, including birds, fish, and mammals.

Benchmark ANS5-3: Students will explain the role of breeding in animal improvement and relate breeding to animal selection.

Benchmark ANS5-4: Students will define artificial insemination and explain its importance in animal agriculture.

Benchmark ANS5-5: Students will identify major reproductive organs and distinguish between male and female reproductive systems and processes.

Benchmark ANS5-6: Students will define and explain phases of reproductive development in mammals, including puberty, fertilization, gestation, parturition, and lactation.

Benchmark ANS5-7: Students will demonstrate the application of breeding animal evaluation, including performance testing, production records, progeny testing, and visual appraisal.

Unit ANS6: Nutrition and feeding of agricultural animals (16 hours)

Benchmark ANS6-1: Students will explain the meaning and importance of nutrition with agricultural animals.

Benchmark ANS6-2: Students will list the nutrient needs of animals and explain the functions of each nutrient.

Benchmark ANS6-3: Students will contrast and compare digestive systems found in agricultural animals, including ruminant and nonruminant systems.

Benchmark ANS6-4: Students will name and explain the roles of nutrients with animals, including maintenance, growth, reproduction, lactation, and work.

Benchmark ANS6-5: Students will name the kinds of feedstuffs and classify as roughage, concentrate, and supplement.

Benchmark ANS6-6: Students will interpret feed analysis information on a label.

Benchmark ANS6-7: Students will list ways animals are fed and demonstrate the use of an appropriate feeding method.

Benchmark ANS6-8: Students will explain the meaning of balanced ration and indicate ways of balancing a ration.

Unit ANS7: Health of agricultural animals (16 hours)

Benchmark ANS7-1: Students will explain the meaning of animal health and describe signs of good health and disease and apply the signs in assessing animals.

Benchmark ANS7-2: Students will identify factors in the environment related to the health of animals.

Benchmark ANS7-3: Students will name common diseases of agricultural animals, list the symptoms, and classify the diseases as contagious, nutritional, physiological, morphological, and genetic.

Benchmark ANS7-4: Students will identify practices that promote good health among agricultural animals.

Benchmark ANS7-5: Students will name ways of treating diseases and parasites and demonstrate how to administer medications.

Benchmark ANS7-6: Students will describe the proper use of pharmaceuticals in the livestock industry.

Unit ANS8: Animal production (13 hours)

Benchmark ANS8-1: Students will identify animal species with productive potential in the local community, including market opportunity and profitability.

Benchmark ANS8-2: Students will identify land, facility, and skill needs for animal production.

Benchmark ANS8-3: Students will describe general production practices followed with agricultural animals, including beef animals, dairy, swine, and horses.

Benchmark ANS8-4: Students will explain methods of animal and premises identification.

Benchmark ANS8-5: Students will evaluate methods of animal waste disposal and select an appropriate method for a specific animal production enterprise.

Unit ANS9: Exhibiting animals (9 hours)

Benchmark ANS9-1: Students will discuss the role and importance of animal exhibits and shows.

Benchmark ANS9-2: Students will explain the selection of animals for showing.

Benchmark ANS9-3: Students will describe the care and practices in raising a show animal.

Benchmark ANS9-4: Students will demonstrate practices in halter breaking, grooming, and show ring management of an animal.

Benchmark ANS9-5: Students will explain and demonstrate ethics associated with showing livestock.

Unit ANS10: Animal biotechnology (7 hours)

Benchmark ANS10-1: Students will define biotechnology and name examples with agricultural animals.

Benchmark ANS10-2: Students will explain the meaning of genetic engineering of animals and identify issues associated with this technology.

Benchmark ANS10-3: Students will explain the role of DNA in genetic engineering and demonstrate the extraction of DNA from animal cells.

Unit ANS11: Agricultural education (7 hours)

Benchmark ANS11-1: Students will manage an appropriate supervised experience in animal science.

Benchmark ANS11-2: Students will identify opportunities for participation and advancement in the FFA related to agricultural animals.

Animal Science:  Animal Production Assistant - CTTC

http://www.okcareertech.org/testing/Skills%20Standards/Agriculture_Career_Cluster.htm

Career Cluster Resources for Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources

Animal Science:  Animal Production Assistant - CTTC

On-line lesson plan library, CAERT,Inc.
www.mycaert.com

Animal Science - CIMC

Agriculture Career Development: Animal Science—CIMC

Supplemental VHS and DVD's - CIMC

www.okcimc.com

Modern Livestock and Poultry Production, 7^th Edition, Gillespie; Delmar Publishing, 2002

http://www.delmarlearning.com/agriscience/Index.aspx?cat1ID=AG

Animal Science Agricultural Curriculum Lesson Plan Library CD-ROM, Center for Agricultural and Environmental Research and Training Inc. (CAERT) 2007