The project on the identification of sheep in the Gambia will make student to be aware of the economic importance,the life history and the kind of sheep to rear in their environment.

Subject and Grade level: GRADE LEVEL:10 and 11

Lesson Goals

• Student will gain knowledge about identifing local sheep by using the internet.
• Students will present their knowledge in articles and tradefairs.
• Students will improve their skills in identifing the local breeds.
• Students will gain practical knowledge on castration,drenching,docking and tagging.

Content Objectives

• Students will be able to narrate the life history of sheep breeds.
• Students will be able to contrast west african long-legged and west african dwarf; aspects of the sheep life history.
• Students will know the economic importance of sheep
• Students will understand the breed necessary for successful sheep meat,hide and skins,bone and blood meals production.

Performance Objectives

• Students will complete diagrams showing internal and external parts of a sheep and their importances.
• Students will perform practical work on castration drenching,docking and vaccinating.
• Students skillfully prepared bones and blood meals, and they also removed the hide and skins.
• Students with their skills learnt can determine the breed that is economically important.

Technology Objectives

• Students will be able to search for relevant information about sheep in the internet.
• Students will be able to download webpages and construct the online in microsoft word.
• Students will be able to answer QUESTIONARIES and completly implement the answers.
• Students can demostrate their skills learnt in the internet perfectly and can also do it practically if the material are available

Instructional Activities (teacher component)
Students were instructed to create webpages with URL in the notepad containing relevant links and instruction.Questionaries were issued to students to fill or answer the questions.Students were shown the webpages on the identification of local sheep using the internet and computer.The information where saved in the a folder named BREEDS G10-11;so that students can access it easily Necessary information copy in the floppy disks or the hard drive of the computers. students were taught how to answer the questionaries.Slow learners where given extra time to do their work.Faster students finish the exercise asigned to then and they were the one helpping the slower students to complete their work.Finally after checking with the teacher,they will create folders and down load it on the computer.

Learning Activities (student component)
Students where taught how to crate new folders.Answering of questionaries and down loading the information needed.They were taught how to use search engine and attachment;and forwarding documents.Uploading and downloading of files which is necessary for the work at hand.

Instructional Strategies
Students must see that all relevant informations search for from the internet must be down loaded on the computer hard drive or copy into a floppy disk. Students where instructed how to log into the network and how to find/search the URL's or webpages.It might be a good idea to create a modified information on search engine for slow learners. I will add extra marks for fast learners.

Project Assessment
The learning goals will be assessed by the ideas printed out, and by the participartion of students on the two days after the assignment has been completed. This will test the retaining of information.Answering of the QUESTIONARIES by the students. Practical skilled work done by students during the feildtrip to ABOUKO RANCH

Project Materials and Handouts
Photo copies of search webpages;ideas chat;charts of sheep internal and external parts.Computers,Floppies, andprinters.

Lesson Resources
Take a feildtrip to ABOUKO SHEEP RANCH. 1.See the different sheep reared;2.Integrated pest and diseases management Castration techniques learnt in the class.3.Feeding,matting and housing management sow in ABOUKO RANCH.

TEACHING REPORT