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What’s the BEEF with Agriculture? Exploring sustainability through beef and dairy production.
What is the global issue students are trying to tackle in this problem-based learning unit?
Amid escalating global sustainability challenges, the agricultural industry continues to adapt through resources provided by entities such as Ag Next. How can the animal agriculture industry continue to feed the population while contributing to sustainable solutions?
PBL designed in conjunction with CSU AgNext.
Students will explore this PBL through the following Units:
Cattle Production and Sustainability
Previous impacts ON Beef and Dairy
Economic impacts of Beef and Dairy
Nutritional impacts of Beef and Dairy
Environmental impacts of Beef and Dairy
Foundational Economics of Cattle Production
Beef and Dairy value chains
Beef and Dairy supply and demand
Trade-offs and sustainability
Potential Solutions in the Production Cycle
Ruminants and Greenhouse Gases
Genetic improvement and sustainability
Waste management and Greenhouse Gases
Stakeholder and Policy Development
Policy players and influences
Driving policy
Acknowledgments:
These lessons and the What’s the BEEF with Agriculture? Exploring sustainability through beef and dairy production Problem-Based Learning Curriculum are signature activities of CAM's Agriculture Academy.
We look forward to partnering with you and kindly ask that you respect our intellectual property rights by not reproducing them without proper acknowledgment and authorization.
The What’s the BEEF with Agriculture? Exploring sustainability through beef and dairy production PBL was created in a partnership between CSU Agricultural Education’s CAM’s Agriculture Academy and CSU Animal Science’s Ag Next programs. We would like to thank the Ag Next team and their researchers for ensuring the validity of this curriculum.
Funding for the What’s the BEEF with agriculture? Exploring sustainability through beef and dairy production PBL was made possible through a gift from the Morgridge Family Foundation. We thank the Morgridge Family for their generosity and commitment to Agricultural Education.
The framework of the CAM’s PBL lesson plan model is derived from the 5E model of instruction developed by Rodger Bybee.
Bybee, R. (2009) THE BSCS 5E INSTRUCTIONAL MODEL AND 21ST CENTURY SKILLS. The National Academies Board on Sceince Education. https://sites.nationalacademies.org/cs/groups/dbassesite/documents/webpage/dbasse_073327.pdf
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