Exploring Poultry and Game Animals

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• Further Education (Key Stage 5)

Exploring Poultry and Game Animals

Learning Objective

At the end of the lesson, you will be able to differentiate between poultry and game animals, identify various game birds and their seasons in the UK.

Introduce the learning objective to the students and explain what they will be able to accomplish by the end of the lesson.

What do you already know about the difference between poultry and game animals?

Poultry vs. Game Animals

Poultry refers to domesticated birds raised for meat, eggs, or feathers. Game animals, on the other hand, are wild animals hunted or captured for food or sport.

Explain the basic difference between poultry and game animals. Encourage students to think about examples of each category.

Identifying Game 

Ears that tear easily, have short easily broken claws, best eaten at the age of 7-8 months and weigh 2.5 - 3.5kg, 

What am I ????

consisting of long saddle, legs (haunch), shoulders, neck, breast and offal 

What am I ??????

Identify the following birds by dragging and dropping

Pheasant, woodcock. grouse and quail 

what animals are in season 1st October -1st February ?

1. grouse
2. pheasant
3. quail
4. woodcock

Write down 3 things you learned in this lesson.

Have students enter three things they learned in this lesson. With this they can indicate their own learning efficiency of this lesson.

Ask 1 question about something you haven't quite understood yet.

The students indicate here (in question form) with which part of the material they still have difficulty. For the teacher, this not only provides insight into the extent to which the students understand/master the material, but also a good starting point for the next lesson.