The digestion of ruminant animals produces a waste by-product — methane.
As well as being the most potent greenhouse gas, it is a waste of energy. If the energy used to produce methane can be redirected, animal growth can be improved.
The focus of this lesson is to encourage students to adapt their knowledge of what they have learned so far about ruminant digestion to address the issue of methane production in livestock industries.
During this lesson students will have the opportunity to:
- recognise the role of knowledge of the environment and ecosystems in a number of occupations
- describe how technologies have been applied to modern farming techniques to improve yields and sustainability
- use information and knowledge from their own investigations and secondary sources to predict the expected results from an investigation
- use digital technologies to construct a range of text types to present science ideas
- select and use appropriate language and representations to communicate science ideas within a specified text type and for a specified audience.
Links to the Australian Curriculum:
- People use science understanding and skills in their occupations and these have influenced the development of practices in areas of human activity (ACSHE136)
- Identify questions and problems that can be investigated scientifically and make predictions based on scientific knowledge (ACSIS139)
- Summarise data, from students’ own investigations and secondary sources, and use scientific understanding to identify relationships and draw conclusions based on evidence (ACSIS145)
- Communicate ideas, findings and evidence based solutions to problems using scientific language, and representations, using digital technologies as appropriate (ACSIS148)
