Lesson Plan 1- Ear Notching
Katelin Ade
Overview:
Learning Objectives:
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Procedure:
Assessment
To educate students on how to read and create ear
notches based on the ear notching system.
 Students should understand why ear
notching is important in the swine industry.
 Students should be able to look at an ear
notch and know which notch is which
number.
 Students should be able to draw and label an
ear notch if given a diagram to draw on.
 AS 8.2
 AS 9.2
 AS 10.1
 RT .4
 RT .6
 A PowerPoint presentation based on Ear
Notching
 Projector
 Ear Notching System diagram
 Pictures of pig faces with ear notches
 Pictures of pigs without ear notches
 Dry erase board with dry erase markers
 Present the PowerPoint presentation on ear
notching.
 Show a video that is saved onto Dropbox
from YouTube.
 Explain why ear notching is crucial to the
swine industry and such an important form
of identification.
 Show and explain the ear notching system
and what each notch signifies and what
number.
 Explain which ear represents the litter and
which one represents the pig number.
 Show how you read and add the numbers
together to get the correct ear notch.
 Start by giving the students some simple ear
notches and work on them together as a
class.
 Give them pictures of pig faces with ear
notches to practice by themselves.
 Hand out pictures of pig faces without ear
notches and write ear notches on the dry
erase board and have the students draw the
notches themselves.
 To test the students on this lesson, have

them play board races where they will either
have to read ear notches or draw ear
notches.
Also, to show that they understand how ear
notching relates to the swine industry and its
importance, have them write a two page
report describing its significance. Have the
students save the report on Dropbox and
then have them submit the report via
Dropbox.