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Put each phrase on a 3x5 card and hand one to each student. Have them mingle, then line up to put the phrase in the correct order. For older students, have them think of alternative definitions and do the same activity. |
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Look through magazines, newspapers, or other sources to find other photos representing each transmission category. |
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Be a reporter; interview a friend pretending to be a farmer to explain a strategy for each situation to reduce risk. |
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Have youth play charades and act out all the strategies they can. Let younger children use the list. |
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Put each strategy on a 3x5 card and give one to each youth. Have them sort themselves into the appropriate category. |
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Go on a tour of a real dairy farm. Learn as much as you can about how the farm operates, then focus on biosecurity. |
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Use Google Maps/Earth to see a birds-eye-view of a dairy farm. Print it and identify areas of disease transmission risk. |
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Look up the cost of a new skid steer. |
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List the advantages and disadvantages of both buying and selling animals at a livestock auction. |
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Using a farm play set and model animals, set up farm scenes depicting each of these transmission risks. |
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Investigate the most common diseases that can be carried by apparently healthy-looking livestock of each species. What can be done to keep them from bringing disease into a herd? |
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Conduct handwashing effectiveness experiments using Glo-GermTM lotion and a UV light. |
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Practice cleaning and disinfecting various objects, i.e. water buckets, foot trimmers, boots. (Follow with Glo-GermTM). |
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Notice other areas of the farm not addressed in this module? Identify disease transmission risks for some of them. |
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Take note of people’s footwear at various events. How dirty are they? How much disease risk does that pose there? |
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Create an educational poster about the importance of clean footwear for display at a fair or other event. |
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Make a list of all the people who visit a dairy farm in a month, such as veterinarians, students, etc. Rate each one regarding the level of disease transmission risk they could pose to a dairy. |
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How would you use a visitor log? In what circumstances would one be important? |
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Investigate various disinfectants; read their labels carefully to compare them. What pathogens is each effective against? What is the required contact time for effectiveness? How should used disinfectant be discarded? What is the proper concentration? How much does each one cost by the gallon and by the use? |
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Make an appointment to visit a veterinary clinic; try on personal protective equipment (gloves, coveralls, mask, etc.). |
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Decide what you would say to a good employee if you owned a chicken farm and they kept pet chickens at their home. You want to keep this good employee, but you also want to keep your birds healthy! |
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Examine labels of various vaccines and medications (go to a feed store for examples). Learn about proper storage, expiration dates, whether or not meat and milk from treated animals can’t be used for human food for a certain amount of time, and other important information on the labels. |
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It is very hard to keep livestock feed and water clean! What design can you come up with that might work? |
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Create other matching activities like this for other biosecurity topics such as pathogens and their types; diseases and their signs; vaccines and the diseases they prevent; etc. |
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Investigate the process of composting carcasses properly. What could you use as the carbon source in your area? |
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Learn about USDA cost-sharing programs in your area to help manage manure properly and keep waterways clean. |
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Recreate the dairy farm investigation but feature a different species of livestock. |
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