Category: In the Classroom

2025 Teacher Appreciation Week: Meet 10 Teachers Who Are Making a Difference

Happy Teacher Appreciation Week! Teachers: THANK YOU for all the energy, support and creativity you pour into your classrooms every day. Our Discover Dairy teachers have a strong passion for agriculture, so this week, we want to showcase a few who are going above and beyond for their students and communities. Thank you to everyone…

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Ag Literacy Week Resources

The American Farm Bureau Foundation offers a comprehensive collection of educational materials to enhance agricultural literacy. These resources aim to provide accurate and engaging content about agriculture, fostering a deeper understanding of where food comes from and the significance of agriculture in daily life. Age group? Elementary & Middle School.

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Science, Stories and Seasonal Changes

Cows and Daylight Saving: How Cows Handle the Time Shift: Daylight Saving Time is quickly approaching! Check out this article and see how DST relates to a cow’s daily life. It also includes a great video from National Geographic that explains Daylight Saving Time in just two minutes. Age group? All Ages. Dairy Science Experiments: Unlock your…

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Calf Growth and Graphing Idea

Need an idea for incorporating the recent 4-month calf update into a lesson plan?  During the 1-month update, two teachers from South Carolina and Virginia had students use math skills with the heights and weights. Try these graphing ideas and allow your students to make predictions for future growth updates or make your own math…

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Curious Clover Adventures

Check out these examples of how teachers and families have used the Curious Clovercoloring sheet to help their students expand their creativity after reading the book! We’d love to see your creativity and share it with others too! Send your photos and stories to us at info@discoverdairy.com.

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Farm-to-Table Learning Idea

Check out this Farm-to-School Lunch celebration held at Connie’s school. She adopted a calf and now the students can connect with local farming and explore the journey of fresh, nutritious food. They created a menu with locally sourced foods from their community.  We’d love to see your creativity and share it with others too! Send your…

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Create a Gender Guessing Activity

While you wait for your announcement about your adopted calf, many teachers have planned creative gender prediction and guessing game activities with their students. Encourage your students to cast votes or use sticky notes to visually display their predictions (boy or girl) on the board. Take a look at how a few teachers have done…

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