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2.3 Preparing Animal Products

Agriculture · Grade 7 · 9 lessons in the design

What this covers

  • Meaning of preparing animal products for use and storage
  • Eggs: sorting, grading and packing
  • Honey: crushing and straining method
  • Honey: packing in appropriate containers
  • Displaying prepared eggs and honey

What you will be able to do

  • explain how to prepare animal products for various purposes
  • prepare animal products for various purposes
  • embrace preparation of animal products for various purposes

Key questions

“How can we prepare animal products?”

Lessons

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  1. Preparing animal products
    40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
    Grade 7 prepares two animal products for use and storage: eggs and honey.
  2. Hygiene and honest search
    40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
    Clean tools protect eggs and honey. Integrity and netiquette protect the buyer and the search.
  3. Sorting eggs
    40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
    Sort eggs by condition: keep sound ones, cook cracked or very dirty ones today, reject leaks and rotten eggs.
  4. Grading eggs
    40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
    Grade sorted keepers by size and shell quality. A large cracked egg is not a top grade.
  5. Packing eggs
    40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
    Pack graded eggs point down in a clean tray, labelled, cool and away from strong smells.
  6. Honey from the comb
    40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
    Ripe honey is capped comb from a hive. Uncapped nectar is not packed as honey.
  7. Crushing and straining honey
    40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
    Grade 7 extracts honey by crushing capped comb and straining it; settle, do not boil.
  8. Packing honey
    40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
    Pack strained honey in clean dry food-safe jars with tight lids and honest labels; store cool and dark.
  9. Display prepared products
    40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
    Display sorted graded packed eggs and strained packed honey to embrace the practise and present products honestly.