Lantra Careers Toolkit Teacher Guide, Animal Care Careers Task

Activity

Animal Care Job Profile

Curriculum for Excellence (CfE) Outcomes and Experiences

Health and Wellbeing

HWB 2-20a / HWB 3-20a: I am investigating different careers/occupations, ways of working, and learning and training paths.

Literacy and English:

LIT 2-16a: To show my understanding across different areas of learning, I can identify and consider the purpose and main ideas of a text and use supporting detail.

LIT 2-17a: I can respond to literal, inferential and evaluative questions and other close reading tasks and can create different kinds of questions of my own.

LIT 3-16a: I can make inferences from key statements,

Duration

Materials

20 min

Copy of A Window into Outdoors pages 12 - 13

Animal Care Careers Job Profile Worksheet Pens/pencils

Optional access to digital device and Lantra Scotland website

www scotland lantra co uk/schools P7 - S2 August 2025 Edition

Activity Instructions

1.Introduction: "When you hear 'animal care' what comes to mind?" Discuss initial ideas and write them down. Challenge assumptions: Show them a copy of ‘A Window Into Outdoors’. Explain: "Today, we're going to investigate how modern agriculture is changing and what diverse career opportunities it offers.”

2.Distribute/Display Page 12 - 13 of ‘A Window Into Outdoors’ to small groups (2-3 pupils) and ask the pupils to read them.

3.Activity: Animal Care Job Profile. Direct pupils to the "Case Study" page featuring Stephanie Bartlett.

4.Read about Stephanie Bartlett

5.Ask the pupils to answer the following questions about Stephanie. Alternatively they can complete the job profile sheet.

"What is their job title?"

"What do they enjoy most about their job? (Refer to their quotes)."

"What skills do you think Stephanie needs for her role?”

6.Wrap-Up

Recap: "What new things have you learned about careers in animal care today?”

"Do any of these careers spark your interest? Why? What skills do you already have that could be useful in these areas, even from hobbies or other subjects?"

"Do you think it's important for us to know about industries like animal care even if we don't plan to work in them, why/ why not?"

Extension Task:

1 Ask the pupils to look up the Lantra Scotland website and find out about 5 careers that they didn’t know were part of the animal care sector. Now ask them to create a job advert for one of the jobs.

Name:

Job Profile

Complete a Job profile for the case study

Person’s Name:

Job title:

Drawapictureoftheperson (orananimalonthepage)

Careers

What do they enjoy most about their job? (Refer to their quotes)

What skills do they need to do their job?

Job Profile:

Do you think jobs in animal care are important? Please explain your answer.

Would you like to have a job in animal care? If so which one and why. If not, why not?

Pick one of the jobs on the Lantra Scotland Careers page and fill out the job advert below.

Careers