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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:

www.wmmb.com/ag/lead1

It takes

ten pounds of milk

to make one pound of cheese.

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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:

www.wmmb.com/ag/careers1

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.

www.wmmb.com/ag/facts1

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.


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!

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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:



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!



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:



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.


Find resources here:

Lead a discussion on everything from possible

careers to plant safety, to product distribution

and marketing.


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:


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.


Farmers today

not only produce the food we eat, but are

increasingly developing and implementing

methods that will help create a sustainable future.


Learn about the

multi-generational

owners of Koepke family

farms, Oconomowoc,

and their role in helping

keep Wisconsin green.



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.


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:



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.



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.




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.



Mozzarella is the

biggest-selling cheese variety,

followed by

Cheddar.

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Take your students on a tour of


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!


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.



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!



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.



Another great field trip idea:

Have your students get to know the many diverse

dairy farm families we have in Wisconsin:


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:


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

www.dairydoingmore.org

www.eatwisconsincheese.com

www.wisconsindairynews.com

www.wisconsindairycouncil.com

www.wisconsindairynews.com

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