Sheep Shearing

Program Objectives

Students learn that farms produce fiber as well as food in order to understand:

• That animals and people are interdependent
• How wool is turned into yarn and other products
• Why wool is uniquely suited for textiles
• How farmers care for sheep
• How lambs interact with their mothers and the rest of the herd

Essential Questions

• How does the farmer get wool from a sheep?
• Why do people spin wool and not other farm animal fur?
  
• What happens to the wool after shearing?
  
• How do you spin wool into yarn?
  
• What things can you make with wool?
  

Relevant Curricula

Next Generation Science Standards: LS1.A Structure and Function | LS1.B Growth and Development of Organisms | LS2.D Social Interactions and Group Behavior | LS3 Inheritance and Variation of Traits | PS3.C Relationship Between Energy and Forces

NJ Science Standards: 5.1A Understand Scientific Explanations | 5.1B Generate Scientific Evidence Through Active Investigations | 5.3A Organization and Development | 5.3C Interdependence | 5.3D Heredity

NJ Social Studies Standards: 6.1B Geography, People and the Environment | 6.1C Economics, Innovation and Technology | 6.1D History, Culture and Perspectives

Cost & Scheduling

– $10 per person for children ages 1+ and adults (including parents & teachers)
– Groups of 5–15 (Scholarships are available for certain programs.)