Category: In the Classroom
Farmers Celebrate Earth Day Every Day: Free Lessons
The Maine Dairy and Nutrition Council provides a series of 3 fantastic lesson plans to get you and your students ready for earth day! Learn how dairy farmers are environmental stewards of the land and are part of the solution towards a more sustainable world. Lesson 1: Farming is Elemental Lesson 2: A Year in…
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.
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…
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…
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.
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…
Display Your Adopted Calf in Your Classroom or School
Several teachers in our program have gotten creative in how they will display their calf and farmer information for the classes and school to see. Check out these great examples from Shelley, Lindsey, Ellen and Tiffani! We’d love to see your creativity and share it with others, too! Send your photos and stories to us…
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…
Maine Teacher Makes Fascinating Connections Between Local Ecosystems and Dairy Farming
August 15, 2024Maine Teacher Makes Fascinating Connections Between Local Ecosystems and Dairy Farming
Dairy farmers rely on a wide range of skills on a daily basis, but especially math and science. Lacey Todd, a fifth-grade science teacher at Mountain Valley Middle School in Maine, has been weaving dairy farming and agriculture into her science and ecosystems curriculum through Discover Dairy’s Adopt a Cow program. “I was at a…
Oregon School Cafeteria Adopts a Cow to Get Students Excited About Drinking Milk
What does it look like when an entire school cafeteria adopts a calf from a dairy farm? For Lynne Shore, Nutrition Services Director at Willamina School District in Oregon, she made this a reality for the 800 students (K-12) her cafeteria serves. After planning a farmer’s markets for students a year earlier, Lynn and her…