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Beef Basics

Students explain the value of the beef cattle industry, including the products cattle produce, the production process from farm to plate, and how cattle can utilize and obtain energy from grass and other forage.

Grades
3 – 5
Estimated Time
2 hours
Updated
December 12, 2024
group of red and black angus cattle on open rangeland
Image: NRCS Montana/Flickr

Background

Lesson Activities

Credits

Author

Lynn Wallin | Utah Agriculture in the Classroom

Standards

National Content Area Standards

  • Social Studies – Geography
    • Geography Standard 15 (Grades 3-4): How physical systems affect human systems.
      • Objective 1: The physical environment provides opportunities for and imposes constraints on human activities.
  • Science
    • 3-LS4: Biological Evolution: Unity and Diversity
      • 3-LS4-3: Construct an argument with evidence that in a particular habitat some organisms can survive well, some survive less well, and some cannot survive at all.
    • 5-PS3: Energy
      • 5-PS3-1: Use models to describe that energy in animals' food (used for body repair, growth, and motion and to maintain body warmth) was once energy from the sun.