Sustainability in
Animal Agriculture
What’s the BEEF with Agriculture? Exploring sustainability through beef and dairy production.
Coming Spring 2025!
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.
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Students will view this issue through
a new case study each week.
Instructional Material for PBL Educators
Support Materials
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Unit 0 - Pitch Lesson
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Unit 1 - Introductions
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Previous Impacts ON beef and dairy production
Economic impacts of beef and dairy production
Nutritional impacts of beef and dairy production
Environmental impacts of beef and dairy production
Additional Resources for the Lesson
Unit 2 - Economics
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Beef and Dairy Value Chains
Beef and Dairy Supply and Demand
Beef and Dairy Trade-Offs
Additional Resources for the Lesson
Unit 3- Animal Nutrition and Herd Management
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Ruminants and Greenhouse Gases
Herd Genetics and Greenhouse Gases
Waste Management and Greenhouse Gases
Additional Resources for the Lesson
Unit 4- Social Impacs
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Players and Influences
Driving Policy
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Final Project
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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