Plan de Medios
A 90-minute, 4-round intermediate Express simulation for Spanish vocational training (Formacion Profesional, grado superior), module 1008 Medios y…
About this simulation
A 90-minute, 4-round basic Express simulation for Spanish vocational training (Formacion Profesional), modules 1274 Organizacion y control de la reproduccion y cria and 1275 Gestion de la produccion animal of the Tecnico Superior en Ganaderia y Asistencia en Sanidad Animal (Real Decreto 1585/2012).
The learner is the newly qualified herd manager of a fictional family suckler-cow farm on a dehesa in the Sierra de San Pedro (Caceres): 1,150 hectares, 420 cows and 16 bulls, over four herd years. Eight decisions over four rounds: the breeding and the herd size, the health and the replacement, the feeding and the handling, the sale of the weaned calves and the close of the four years.
Scored on weaned calf reached, cost per 100 kg weaned, calving interval and incidents in the official controls; three tempting choices come back later, and two critical errors (medicines without a prescription, calves sold without ear tags or a movement document) cap the round. Lesson: reproduction sets the productivity of the whole herd. Spanish primary, English parity.
Who it is for
An introductory simulation that assumes no prior knowledge of the subject, designed for undergraduate courses. It also works in vocational and high-school programmes and in onboarding sessions.
How a session runs
- The instructor creates a session from the Eureka dashboard and invites the participants.
- Participants play 4 rounds. In each one they submit their decisions and the simulation calculates the results. The first round opens with: lunes 4 de octubre de 2027, 8:00: la reproducción y el censo.
- The simulation can be run in English, Español.
- The instructor follows each participant's progress and results from the dashboard, and uses the class results for the debrief.