Three pig houses
Three Little Pigs STEM Challenge
By Emma Vanstone 2 Comments
This Three Little Pigs STEM Challenge is a brilliant science experiment for learning about stability of structures and properties of materials. It’s great for Early Years Science age, but can also be extended for older children too.
If you like this, you might also like our Gingerbread Man science experiments.
We made six different types of Three Little Pig houses loosely based on the story.
Three Little Pigs STEM ChallengeYoy’ll need
Sticks
Straws – plastic and paper
Marshmallows
Elastic bands
Cardboard
LEGO
Squeezy bottle or small fan to use as wind
Sugar cubes
Three Little Pigs STEM Challenge InstructionsIn the classroom I set up 5 different areas with different materials for the house building and let the children explore each area.
We talked about the properties of the stick which made it suitable for house building. The best sticks were quite smooth, without too many bumps and all a similar size.
Straw HouseI bundled the straws up, to make them easier to build with and let the children work out the best way to put them together.
Sugar Cube HouseThis one was the most popular and kept the children occupied for a long time. You could extend this task by spraying the house with water once finished or sticking the cubes together with different materials, for example, icing sugar, marshmallow fluff or even just dampening the cubes to see if they stick that way.
Paper/Cardboard/Straw wallsI built a frame using LEGO and then cut paper and cardboard walls to test as well as a wall that could be built from straws. The children then used a squeezy bottle to blow “wind” onto the walls and observed what happened.
I built this LEGO house and left one side of the roof empty so the children could test sticks, ripped cardboard and the LEGO tiles to see which protected against the squeezy bottle wind the most. I placed some tissue paper squares inside the house so the effect of the wind was visible to the children.
Marshmallow and StrawsThe children loved this one, but it did get a bit sticky and the houses are not very stable. Smaller, harder sweets and cocktail sticks might work better.
These FREE printable design sheets might be handy too!
Three Little Pigs House Design Sheets
Three Little Pigs STEM Challenge Extension TasksTry spraying each house with water and observing what happens. Can you make predictions first?
Can you test how stable the houses are by giving them a shake?
Which other materials could you build a house from?
Suitable for Early Learning Goal 16
Exploring and using media and materials
They safely use and explore a variety of materials, tools and techniques, experimenting with colour, design, texture, form and function.
Key Stage 1
Everyday Materials
Uses of Everyday Materials
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Last Updated on August 20, 2021 by Emma Vanstone
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Keeping pigs | How to keep the pen of an industrial pigsty clean
Despite the common proverb about the love of pigs for dirt, it is not true. In fact, pigs prefer to live in a clean environment even under intensive production conditions. How many square meters should be allocated to animals for the implementation of natural remedies in conditional toilet points, Chinese experts found out.
In recent years, the cleanliness and sanitation of animals has attracted attention in the context of welfare and biosecurity. Although pigs naturally tend to defecate in dark and damp corners, a high intensity production model does not allow the animals to do so, resulting in fouling of pens with adverse effects.
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First , harmful gas emissions. Among them, ammonia emissions are particularly affected by floor areas contaminated with faeces and urine. When the amount of manure accumulated on the floor is reduced, ammonia emissions can be reduced by 40-60%.
Second , damage to animal health and welfare. When the floor in the barn is heavily manured, the pigs slide on the faeces with the risk of injuring their legs, increasing the risk of spreading infections. It must be remembered that pigs prefer clean and dry places for movement and rest. nine0003
Thirdly , clean animals give the best weight gain and healthy offspring.
There are many factors that affect sanitation. For example, the level of soiling in pens increases with the temperature in pigsties. In one experiment, with an increase in temperature of about 6 ° C, the lying behavior on a hard floor in animals decreased by 42.3%; urination and defecation increased by 75.8% and 139.5% respectively, skin contamination was severe.
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The excretion behavior of pigs is also affected by improper equipment placement. Thus, adding an extra drinker outside when there was already a drinker in the slatted floor increased the pollution inside the pen.
As an important environmental factor in pig production, stocking density has a direct effect on paddock pollution. At high stocking densities, it is relatively difficult for pigs to move between different areas and therefore animals are more likely to defecate in the lying area and lie down in the feces area. nine0003
Conversely, at reduced density, available space means that pigs will tend to defecate in a space not used for other activities. Therefore, proper planting density is essential to keep the paddock clean.
This study was conducted from August 8 to September 18, 2018 at the Chongqing Academy of Animal Science Pig Nursing and Finishing Facility, Chongqing, China.
A total of 216 growing Landrace × Yorkshire × Duroc hybrid pigs (body weight 23.
5 ± 3.7 kg, age 59± 3 days) were randomly assigned to 12 pens.
In accordance with current industry standards in China, stocking density in trials was set at three levels: 0.5, 0.7 and 0.9 m 2 / head (four pens per treatment and 18 pigs per pen) . The experiment was carried out for 35 days, the final live weight of pigs was 50.5 ± 6.5 kg.
The experimental pigsty was completely fenced off, with one plastic feeder and two drinking bowls provided in each pen to give the pigs free access to food and water. An evaporative cooling system was used to control the thermal environment in the house. Feeding was carried out at 8:00–9:00 and 16:00–17:00 daily. The hard floor was cleaned twice a day before feeding.
The floor of the experimental pigsty was partially slatted (1/2 slatted floor and 1/2 solid concrete floor). The proposed lying area was a solid concrete floor, while the slatted area was intended for excrement. Above each pen, a camera was installed to automatically record the behavior of the pigs, then video recordings from the 1st, 7th and 35th days of the experiment were selected.
Analysis of whether pigs have appropriate behavior in specific functional areas showed that animals at a density of 0.9m 2 /pig had a 10.14% lower level of lying on slatted floors (expected stool area) than on solid floors, while at a density of 0.5 and 0.7 m 2 /pig the opposite was true .
These results show that when the effective space occupied by the pigs is larger, the specific behavior is exhibited in the given functional areas and the cleanliness of the pen is higher.
Under the conditions of this experiment, the recommended nursery density for pigs was 0.9m 2 /head. Of course, even more space can be better and beneficial to animal health and welfare, but the economic costs must also be taken into account.
Based on an article by a group of authors (Yaqiong Zeng, Hao Wang, Rongdan Ruan, Yongzhen Li, Zuohua Liu, Chaoyuan Wang, Anfang Liu) published in Agriculture 2022 on mdpi.com
Source: agroxxi.ru
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