Bovine care is an essential topic for any agriculture classroom (even if that classroom looks completely different this year). Here are four engaging learning aids you can use to grab your students’ attention and help them understand key bovine care skills training concepts, whether you’re teaching remotely or in person.
Cow Model
Our Cow Model is a great tool to unpack when addressing bovine digestion and reproduction concepts. This oversized model features realistic details of the reproductive system, the digestive system, and udder structures.
If you’re teaching in-person, give students time to open the cow and remove all 13 pieces so they can see what each organ looks like and how it relates to other organs inside the animal. If you’re teaching remotely, you could choose to send students home with a smaller cow model from our Cow Model 5-Pack, or turn on your webcam and conduct a live demonstration.
Bonus: Our Cow Model includes lesson plans and activities that emphasize digestive and reproductive systems. Access these lesson plans even if you don’t own our Cow Model by clicking here.
Bovine Breeder™ artificial insemination simulator
Our Bovine Breeder artificial insemination simulator can be an effective demonstration tool or hands-on learning aid with your students, depending on your needs this year. If you’re teaching remotely, turn on your webcam and show students the fundamentals of correct cervix manipulation, AI gun positioning and pregnancy palpation via a video conferencing tool. If you’re teaching in person, you can use the simulator to give your students hands-on practice inserting and delivering semen without leaving the classroom. Students can also practice palpating the uterus to identify stages of corpus luteum development and pregnancy.
Bonus: Our Bovine Breeder artificial insemination simulator includes lesson plans and activities that address proper AI techniques. Access these lesson plans even if you don’t own our Bovine Breeder by clicking here.
Bovine Injection Simulator
When it comes time to address intramuscular and subcutaneous bovine injections, our Bovine Injection Simulator is a powerful learning aid that will save you time. Not only can your students practice administering injections without leaving the classroom, but they can practice multiple injections on one simulator, ensuing opportunities to develop correct muscle memory and understanding of proper technique.
If you’re teaching remotely, you can use this unique tool to conduct video demonstrations of injections, walking your students through considerations for needle size, injection location, injection amount and other fundamentals. You can also demonstrate ear tagging and growth implant placement.
Bonus: Our Bovine Injection Simulator includes lesson plans and activities on bovine injections. Access these lesson plans even if you don’t own this simulator by clicking here.
Calf Simulator
We created this unique tool to help students how to provide the essential care aspects that bovine need when they’re most vulnerable. If you’re teaching in person, use this life-sized simulator to give students hands-on practice carrying out a variety of important calf care responsibilities, including vaccination administration, castration, tube feeding, ear tagging and even tail blood draws.
If you’re teaching remotely, you can use our Calf Simulator to conduct an online calf health assessment, discussing the importance of and techniques for conducting esophageal feeding, navel care and castration, as well as tail vein injections and blood draws.
Bonus: Our Calf Simulator includes lesson plans and activities on a variety of key calf care considerations. Access these lesson plans even if you don’t own this simulator by clicking here.
More Bovine Care Skills Training Resources
Find more resources on teaching essential bovine care skills below:
On-demand webinars:
- Bovine Care: Essential Topics for any Agriculture Classroom:
- Product Demonstration: Bovine Injection Simulator, Bovine Breeder, Swine Breeder, Calf Simulator, and Cow Model (5) Pack
- Teaching Remotely in the Agriculture Classroom
- 10 Online Resources for Agriculture Classroom
Access the curriculum and activities that accompany our agriculture learning aids.
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