Animal health/Deliverables

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Deliverables

The initially envisioned deliverables of the Animal Health project will be a bundle (or group of bundles) containing information that will encourage children to explore the information and learn about the relationship between animals and human health. I imagine this content grouped into sections that might also roughly correspond to target age groups.

Collection gathering

Maintain records of original sourcing so that copyright/licensing review is feasible.

Section A - "virtual petting zoo"

A wikislice of pages about domesticated animals, hopefully covering aspects of different livestock in different cultures (tie into "social studies"). This will be general in nature and rich in photographic content to appeal to the youngest age groups. Please use the [Animal health/Livestock Livestock] page to build the list of content to be wikisliced.

Section B - 4-H like materials

This section needs a lot of work. Various 4-H and extension web-sites need to be combed for suitable content that might be both interesting and potential useful.

Topics might include:

• the impact of animals on the environment (e.g. grazing);
• the economic value derived from of domesticated animals, other than food (e.g. draft animals for work, fibre from sheep/goats/llamas, leather from cattle, etc.);
• health issues related to animals (e.g. zoonoses, etc.).

Content could useful for illustrating principles linking into biology curriculum. This would ideally target the middle-school ages.

Section C - para- veterinary reference library

Ideally this section is composed of training aids gathered from organizations like Heifer International local affiliates or the Peace Corp. The intent will be to provide highly practical materials that will help people take better care of their animals and themselves. This would be intended for more mature students and their parents.

Bundle Development Process

A much clearer picture is needed of what happens after materials has been gathered (presumably mostly in English).

Pedogological review

• Are these suitable for use in the classroom?

• What additional materials should be gathered or generated?
  • Teacher's guides
  • Lesson Plans
  • Prepared evaluation materials (e.g. quizzes)
  • Classroom activities, etc.

Subject matter expert review

• Specialized localization issues
  • Do the para-veterinary materials need to be tailored to specific regions?

Localization process

• Hopefully some content gathered in local languages from the target communities

Bundle generation

• Technical aspects of bundle preparation.