The focus of this presentation is the digestive system of livestock animals. The simple digestive system of swine is compared to the complex digestive system of a cow. Details of the ruminant stomach are presented, complete with a...

Everything you ever wanted to know about the digestive system of a horse is presented in this set of slides. Basic anatomy, factors that affect digestion, and the rate of the passage of food are all included. This may be useful to your...

In this beef worksheet, students participate in a variety of activities including completing a digestion dilemma, identifying best meat cuts and selecting a service project to complete.

A rather uninspired powerpoint which covers all the information that is required to recap nutrition needs and metabolism but does not include any images or infographics.  Some of the information is unusual and specialised to farm...

Have you ever wondered why some people are lactose intolerant? Participants test simulated patients in a hands-on lab activity to find out! They learn about lactose intolerance by performing an experiment, analyzing data, and drawing...

Students study decomposition. In this decomposition lesson, students discuss the background information about decomposition. Students then complete the 'Chew It Twice' worksheet.

Students examine the various types of beef and the many uses of its by-products. They increase their knowledge by playing a game of "beef bingo."They discuss what parts of beef animals are their by-products.

Students discover the total impact of milk on our society by graphing data.  In this statistics lesson, students discover the dirty and sometimes unhealthy road milk travels to get into our bodies.  Students analyze dairy...

Students become familiar with various kinds of apples and the tree they grow on.  For this Apple tree lesson, students recognize the differences between apples and can identify what happens to apples in different seasons. ...

A practice reading passage over the gastrointestinal system.

How we can be in the parasympathetic "rest and digest" state of our nervous system or the sympathetic "fight or flight" at any given moment. In both cases, we can only operate in one or the other brain networks at any given moment. Here...