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Unit Industry Sector
Agriculture & Natural Resources

Unit Originally Created By: Karen Dalton-Wemp

Basic Animal Health

Part of Course: Agriscience/Intro to Ag Model

Unit Overview / Details

This unit contains lessons about evaluating normal, healthy animal appearance and behaviors; how housing, sanitation, and nutrition affect animal health; common animal diseases; animal parasites; and important practices for animal medication usage, implementation, and storage.

Instructional Hours

Classroom
15 Hours

Content / Concepts

  • Assessing appearance and behavior of a normal, healthy animal
  • Ways in which housing, sanitation, and nutrition influence animal health and behavior
  • Causes and control of common animal diseases
  • How to control parasites and why
  • Legal requirements for the procurement, storage, methods of application, and withdrawal times of animal medications and proper equipment handling and disposal techniques

CTE Standards

Lessons in this Unit

  • This lesson is designed to be an introductory lesson that will cover the signs of a healthy animal, ways to detect unhealthiness and methods to improve animal health. It could be used as an intro unit to animal health in vet science or introductory animal science unit.

    one class period
    60 Minutes