Students will evaluate the USDA grading system for whole cuts of beef and discuss consumer preferences and nutritional differences between grain-finished and grass-finished beef. Students will also distinguish various labels on beef products and discuss reasons for the government’s involvement in agricultural production, processing and distribution of food.
Read MoreLearn about careers at a racetrack.
Read MoreFind career descriptions and education requirements related to horse sales and entrepreneurship.
Read MoreLearn the minimum requirements, salary, and descriptions for several jobs in horse management and sales.
Read MoreCooper is now the Farm Manager of Mt. Brilliant Farm in Fayette County, Ky. The farm, which is over 1,200 acres, offers boarding and sales prep, and owns horses in training and actively racing, as well.
Read MoreHaving grown up riding and showing horses and then visiting Saratoga Race Course at the age of 6, New York native Carrie Gilbert knew that she was wanted to work horses—and not just horses: racehorses.
Read MoreDr. Natalie Heitz is an Associate Veterinarian at Northrup Equine Veterinary Care, where she specializes in treating horses. Her usually starts in the early morning at the racetrack followed by afternoons of farm calls. She may also visit race tracks during the racing season.
Read MoreHorse trainer Jordan Blair, of Lexington, prepares and conditions Thoroughbred horses for their racing careers. His day starts around 4:30 a.m., arriving in the barn to check on all the horses and employees.
Read MoreDr. Jimmy Henning is an extension professor and forage specialist at the University of Kentucky College of Agriculture, Food, and the Environment. His main job is to help students and farmers understand how to manage their grasses and hays to feed their grazing livestock.
Read MoreAs an animal/equine nutritionist, Dr. Coleman works on making specific horse feed recipes. To do his job, he needs to know the nutrient needs of all kinds of horses and the different feedstuffs that will supply those nutrients to the horses.
Read MoreHeather Anderson is an associate international editor at the Thoroughbred Daily News, writing for a daily web journal that provides information on anything and everything that goes on in the international Thoroughbred world. She is also in charge of maintaining the TDN's horse data and troubleshooting any web site issues.
Read MoreThe most famous horse race in the world, the Kentucky Derby, brought Erin O’Keefe, Customer Relations Manager for Millenium Farms, to Kentucky.
Read MoreStudents will be introduced to the basic needs and functions of living things, introduced to stimulus and response, develop an understanding of the basic needs of shelter and space as they relate to horses, build structures using common materials and explore ways to solve problems when building structures, explore how large objects or structures can be made from smaller parts.
Read MoreStudents will be able to identify and list adaptations of various animals, understand the difference between behavioral and physical adaptations, construct an argument based on lab simulation that camouflage increases the likelihood of an organism’s survival, develop an understanding of how horses have adapted coat color overtime to meet their needs, escape predators, and continue those successful traits in their offspring.
Read MoreStudents will understand the need to supplement natural food sources when the environment may not fully meet the needs of an organism, be introduced to carrying capacity, develop an understanding of the basic needs of horses, develop an understanding of the basic nutritional elements needed by most organisms and how these nutrients can benefit the organism and their offspring.
Read MoreStudents will understand the difference between monocular and binocular vision as it relates to depth perception, experience how parallax contributes to depth perception, construct an argument based on experimentation that binocular vision allows for greater depth perception, and be able to identify that vision is based on information received through photoreceptors and translated in the brain.
Read MoreStudents will develop an understanding of why certain geographical areas in Kentucky provide better habitats for breeding and raising horses, how weather events contribute changes on the earth’s surface, how weathering and erosion can leak calcium carbonate into the ground water for animal consumption, and they will construct an argument based on experimentation that limestone in Kentucky’s soil is released into the water through the process of weathering and erosion.
Read MoreEthanol is a common alcohol made by fermenting the sugar and starch components of renewable plant materials by using yeast. Humans discovered ethanol not long after they figured out how to put fire to good use.
Read MoreFind lessons, fact sheets, and resources for grades K-12 on biofuels, renewable fuels, ethanol, and biodiesel.
Read MoreBiodiesel is a renewable, clean-burning diesel replacement made from a diverse mix of feedstocks including recycled cooking oil, plant oils (primarily soybean oil), and animal fats.
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