Exploring the needs of animals and the role of animal sanctuaries.
AnimalKind Lesson Plan 8
To understand what intensive animal farming involves and to appreciate its impacts. Prompting class discussion and debate about the environmental, public health, ethical and animal welfare impacts of intensively farming animals for food. Appreciating the differing societal perspectives on the matter.
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Lesson Plan 8 -
• Factory farming debate: Lesson Plan 8
• Card sort activity
• Debating factory farming PowerPoint
• Summary of arguments for and against factory farming
Debating factory farming Powerpoint presentation
Credits for the Debating Factory Farming PowerPoint presentation
Slide 4 Â 73 Cows (Lockwood Film).
Slide 6: Paul the pig clears his room (Nicolles Welt)
Slide 8: Animals experiencing a life worth living (Compassion In World Farming)
Slide 10: Let’s ask the animals (Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour)
Slide 13: Did you know chickens can count? (Edgar’s Mission animal sanctuary)
Slide 20: Let’s ask the animals (Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour)
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