Public Speaking for Biosecurity Advocates II: Presenting Effectively
Be the force to create a safer agricultural community by creating and presenting effective educational presentations. By informing others about biosecurity strategies, you’ll become a biosecurity advocate as you spread the word about its importance!
Fork Farms Hydroponics
By Wisc-Online
Explore vertical hydroponic growing with Fork Farms and FVTC. We'll introduce you to what vertical hydroponic growing is, why it's important to our economy and the environment, and how you can get started.
Digital Terrain Model (DTM): Determining Contour Location
By Steve Whitmoyer
Learners read how to determine the location of a contour for a specific location given a TIN.
Weight - Volume Relationships: Water (Moisture) Content
This interactive learning object demonstrates how the moisture content is determined for a given sample of soil or aggregate.
Public Speaking for Biosecurity Advocates I: Creating a Persuasive Presentation
Biosecurity Strategies
By the end of this module, you'll be able to:
- Identify actions that can reduce biosecurity risk
- Develop a biosecurity action plan for a farm
- Select the most cost effective strategies
Veterinary Dental Formulas
By Laura Lien
In this interactive object, learners complete dental formulas for various species of animals.
Veterinary Antiparasitic Drugs
In this interactive object, learners sort veterinary antiparasitic medications into categories.
Biosecurity: Finding Sources of Disease Transmission Risk
By the end of this module, you’ll be able to:
- List four categories of disease agent sources
- Discover conditions when disease transmission is likely to occur
- Describe the means of disease transmission in a given situation
Veterinary Nervous System Drugs
In this interactive object, learners sort veterinary nervous system drugs into categories.
My Uncle's House
By Rosie Bunnow
In this scenario, learners measure a roof to determine the number of shingles needed to cover it.
Biosecurity: Routes of Infection and Means of Transmission
In this module, you'll be able to :
- Identify five routes of infection
- Describe how diseases are transmitted in animals
Veterinary Cardiovascular System Drugs
In this interactive object, learners sort veterinary cardiovascular system drugs into categories.
Math Conversions for Veterinary Technicians
Learners view the conversion factors within and between the metric, apothecary, and household systems. A quiz completes the activity.
Digital Terrain Model: Extrapolation of Elevations
Students read how to determine the elevation of an alignment or cross section where it crosses the TIN.
Veterinary Gastrointestinal System Drugs
Learners sort veterinary gastrointestinal medications into categories in drag-and-drop exercises.
Veterinary Muscle Function Drugs
In this interactive object, learners sort veterinary muscle function medications into categories.
Vine Nutrient Availability: How Cation Exchange Capacity, Base Saturation, and Soil pH affect vine nutrient availability
By Piero Spada
Learners examine how CEC, base saturation, and soil pH work with each other to define plant nutrient availability.
Weight-Volume Relationships: Saturated Unit Weight
Students read how to determine and calculate the saturated unit weight for a given sample of soil or aggregate, based on the weight-volume relationship. Practice problems complete the activity.
Veterinary Respiratory System Drugs
In this interactive object, learners sort veterinary respiratory drugs into categories.
Inventory Assets and Human Resources
By Kevin Rauchholz
Learners listen to an explanation of how to perform an inventory of a farm business. They then list their hard assets and human resources by completing worksheets that they save to their personal computers.
Veterinary Urinary System Drugs
In this interactive object learners will sort veterinary urinary medications into categories.
What is Biosecurity?
At the end of this lesson you will be able to
- Explain what biosecurity means.
- Describe why biosecurity is important.
- Identify what kinds of disease agents we try to prevent or control with biosecurity.
- Demonstrate disease agent-host-environmental interactions that result in disease.
Gradation - Sieve Sizes
This learning object introduces the student to sieves and how their designation is related to the aggregate size.
Weight-Volume Relationships: Introduction to a 3-Phase Diagram
In this animated activity, students read about weight-volume relationships within a given sample of soil or aggregate. They complete problems using a 3-phase diagram.