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24 fun and engaging ways toincorporate dairy into your classroom
in Dairy
LEAD. THINK. INspIRE.
Lessons
CAREERs IN DAIRY
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How to use this guideIn the pages to follow, you’ll find 24 different ideas for incorporating dairy into your daily lesson plans. The variety of assignments presented here can be broadly separated into three categories:
LEAD. THINK. INspIRE. Inspire your students to get excited about dairy with field trips, thought-provoking discussion questions and assignments, and other inspirational videos and topics impacting the dairy industry today.
jusT THE fACTs. At the end of the day, learning should be fun. In this category, you’ll find a wide range of topics pertaining to dairy, as well as ideas for how to engage your students to learn about them.
CAREERs IN DAIRY. Educate your students on the growing number of ag and dairy careers with this group of resources and assignments that encourage exploration and self-discovery.
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Get the dialogue flowing every day with a quick video & discussion session.
http://wmmb.com/ag/lead1
Choose from one of 25 informative videos
varying from 5–20 minutes long on topics
ranging from The Math of Methane to
The Art of Cheesemaking and more.
Browse videos about America’s Dairyland:
It takes
ten pounds of milk
to make one pound of cheese.
careers in dairy
http://wmmb.com/ag/careers1
Split your class into small teams
and have them write a report on
everything it takes to provide
optimal nutrition, good medical
care and healthy living conditions for
cows and calves. For a great place to start,
point them to:
Here’s an assignment for the animal lover in us all:
To get the same amount of calcium provided by 3 cups of milk
you would have to eat: 17 oranges,
53 potatoes,
22 cups of fresh broccoli or
13 cups of red kidney beans.
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In Wisconsin, agriculture is a way of life…and dairy is king.
For more stats and figures, go to:http://dairydoingmore.org/economicimpact/agimpactinwi.aspx
For county stats and figures:
http://wmmb.com/ag/facts1
Ag in Wisconsin is a 354,000 job, $59.16 billion
industry, with dairy making
up nearly half of that total
($26.5 billion).
Give each of your students
a Wisconsin county and ask
them to write a report on
that county’s individual agricultural impact on the
state as a whole.
Wisconsin’s $26.5 billion dairy industry
far outweighs Florida’s
$9.3 billion citrus industry or
Idaho’s$2.7 billion potato industry.
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An infographic is, essentially, a boiled down, visual way to present information.
http://wmmb.com/ag/lead2
Have each of your students pick a fun Wisconsin
dairy fact and create their own infographic to
present to the class.
Find Wisconsin dairy facts:
And these days,
they’re everywhere.[ ]
A Wisconsin
dairy cow produces
an average of about
7 gallons of milk each day.
That’s almost 110
eight-ounce glasses
of milk every day!
careers in dairy
http://wmmb.com/ag/careers2
If your students
are still not sure what to
major in when they
get to college,
introduce them to
The College of Agriculture
and Life Sciences at UW-Madison. Encourage them
to explore the various career options within this
growing discipline and give a short presentation on
one possible career in ag that they find interesting.
If Wisconsin were
a country, it would rank
4th in the world in terms of total
cheese production,
behind the U.S., Germany and France,
and just ahead of Italy.
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In Wisconsin, it’s all about cows. Have your students watch the “Dairy Farming
in Wisconsin—It’s About the Cows” video.
Then have them write a creative essay with the
subject: “A Day in the Life of a Wisconsin Dairy Cow.”
Watch the video:
http://wmmb.com/ag/facts2
The average dairy cow eats
20 lbs of hay,
20 lbs of corn silage,
10 to 20 lbs of corn and
6 to 12 lbs of supplements
each day.
If people ate
as much as cows, they
would have to eat about
360 cheeseburgers and drink
400 to 800 glasses of water
each day!
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http://wmmb.com/ag/lead3
What is dairy doing to keep Wisconsin green?
Find resources:
Ask your students to choose and write an
essay about sustainability, bio-energy and
other ways farmers are managing our land
and water resources.
More than 300 different career choices
—on and off the farm— are available within the Wisconsin
dairy industry.
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What do your students think of when they
think of careers in dairy research?
One way to broaden their knowledge of possible
careers in dairy is to show them this video on how
the Wisconsin Center for Dairy Research used whey
protein and local
ingredients such as
Door County cherry juice
to create a new sports
drink for athletes:
http://wmmb.com/ag/careers3
Approximately 6 billion
half-pints of milk are served through
federal school lunch, breakfast and special milk
programs every year.
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Have your students study the step-by-step
process: http://wmmb.com/ag/facts3
Then, assign groups to “teach” the
rest of the class how to make cheese.
How exactly is cheese made?
Wisconsinleads the nation
in the production of specialty cheeses,
such as Gorgonzola, Gruyère, Asiago, Feta, Aged Cheddar,
Gouda, Blue and many others, accounting for ~46% of total
specialty cheeseproduction in the U.S.
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Find resources here:
Lead a discussion on everything from possible
careers to plant safety, to product distribution
and marketing.
http://wmmb.com/ag/lead4
Find a cheese plant near your school:
Take your students on a cheesy field trip.
Wisconsin
is the #1 cheese-producing
state in the country, with
25% of the total annual
U.S. cheese production.
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Open class today with this question: True or false?
When you run a farm, what you’re really running is a
business. Show this video on how having business
skills can help farms be more profitable:
http://wmmb.com/ag/careers4
Then, lead a discussion on
the business skills students
think would prove useful
on a farm.
More than 99 percent
of Wisconsin’s dairy farms
are family owned.
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Send your students to cheese boot camp!Have your students take the free Cheesecyclopedia™
Self-Study Course offered online:
http://wmmb.com/ag/facts4 where they’ll learn
everything about cheese—how it’s made,
categorized, stored, aged and more.
All they have to
do is create a
profile to begin.
90%of Wisconsin’s milk is
made into cheese...and
90% of that famous
Wisconsin Cheese
is sold outside of
the state’s borders.
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Farmers today
not only produce the food we eat, but are
increasingly developing and implementing
methods that will help create a sustainable future.
Find resources here:
Learn about the
multi-generational
owners of Koepke family
farms, Oconomowoc,
and their role in helping
keep Wisconsin green.
http://wmmb.com/ag/lead5
Contrary to popular opinion,
cows sleep lying down–
just like people.
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Robots & Cows It’s not science fiction but a way of life for an
increasing number of farms across the state.
http://wmmb.com/ag/careers5
Play this video on
robotic milking technology
and use it as a springboard
for discussing the many
ways modern technology
can help dairy farms today:
Cows have an acute sense
of smell—they can
smell something
up to six miles away.
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Studies show chocolate milk
has all the protein, carbs, fluids
and electrolytes athletes
need to refuel after
working out.
Have your students research
the benefits of drinking
chocolate milk versus
regular sports drinks,
using the following
resource as a guide:
http://wmmb.com/ag/facts5
Cheese is the #1
food craving, even beating out chocolate!When respondents were asked
which food gift they would like
to receive, 19% of Americans said
they want cheese—and only
13% said candy.
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Find resources here:
Here’s an idea for a homework assignment: Ask your students to research
and choose a local cheese on
EatWisconsinCheese.com
and bring a sample to share
with the rest of the class.
http://wmmb.com/ag/lead6
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American per capita
cheese consumption
was 33.5 lbs
in 2011, a figure that has
nearly doubled over the
last 30 years.
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Ask your students how many of them are actively involved in social media.
Show them how careers in social media are booming,
and how the dairy industry is in need of people with
skills in Facebook,™ Twitter,™ YouTube,™ etc. to help
them better connect with the public.
As a follow-up assignment, ask your students how
they would use social media to help a dairy farm
better connect with their audience.
http://wmmb.com/ag/careers6
Mozzarella is the
biggest-selling cheese variety,
followed by
Cheddar.
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Take your students on a tour of
http://wmmb.com/ag/facts6
Explore Wisconsin’s cheesemaking history:
Wisconsin’s cheesemaking past. Have them create their
own visual “timelines” for important
points in Wisconsin’s storied
cheesemaking history.
Image courtesy of Hoard’s Dairyman.
Average milk production
per Wisconsin cow each year is 21,436 lbs
(or 2,493 gallons). That’s enough for 39,880
glasses of milk —all from
just one cow!
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Share this video with your
class to help them learn more
about the rigors of becoming
a Master:
The Wisconsin Master Cheesemaker®
program is the only rigorous advanced training
program of its kind outside of Europe.
http://wmmb.com/ag/lead7
Milk is
better than water for cooling your mouth
after eating spicy food. Milk products contain casein,
a protein that cleanses and soothes your burning
taste buds.
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Got any foodies in your class? Introduce your students to the possibilities
of a career in foodservice—chef, journalist,
cookbook author, restaurant designer,
critic, blogger and more.
Who knows? Maybe there’s
a future James Beard Award
winner in the midst!
http://wmmb.com/ag/careers7
Wisconsin is the only producer of
Limburger Cheese in the country.
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Here’s a great fact to kick off class today:
The nation’s first dairy school was created at the
University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1890, where
it remains the country’s top Dairy Science
Department today.
For other interesting dairy facts,
have your students check out:
http://wmmb.com/ag/facts7 and create a
poster or other visual of their favorite fact
to present to the rest of the class.
Wisconsin Cheese wins more awards
than any other state or nation.
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Find resources here:
Another great field trip idea:
Have your students get to know the many diverse
dairy farm families we have in Wisconsin:
http://wmmb.com/ag/lead8
Then, have your students vote on the one they’d
most like to visit.
Cows go by many names.
A female calf is a heifer. A male calf is a bull.
A calf’s mother is a dam and its father is a sire.
A heifer that has given birth to a calf is a cow.
A cow that has recently given birth is called a “fresh cow.”
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Time for cheesemaking 101. Ask your students to watch the comprehensive
video on making cheese titled “High School/Adult—
Art of Cheesemaking:” http://wmmb.com/ag/careers8
and develop a short presentation to share with the rest
of the class on The Art of Wisconsin Cheese.
Cheese helps prevent tooth decay. Firm cheeses
such as Cheddar are most effective.
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Engage your students in the typical life cycle of a dairy cow by introducing
them to Jetta, a real-life, Brown Swiss heifer whose
journey from calf to cow has been documented:
http://wmmb.com/ag/facts8
Split your class into groups and have each group
come up with a creative way to tell each chapter’s
story.
Jetta
Cows spend an average of 6 hours
each day eating, and an additional 8 hours
ruminating or chewing their cud. Most cows
chew at least 50x per minute.
The Wisconsin Milk Marketing Board is committed to helping Ag Educators and FACE
(Family & Consumer Education) teachers at high schools
around the state find relevant and engaging ways to
educate their students on all things dairy.
For additional ideas, resources and content that may be
useful in developing lesson plans, visit:
www.DairyDoingMore.org
www.EatWisconsinCheese.com
www.WisconsinDairyNews.com
www.WisconsinDairyCouncil.com
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