Handouts, Resources + Videos to Supplement Mobile Dairy Classroom

Mobile Dairy Classroom HandoutsThe learning and fun doesn’t need to stop when the cow returns to her dairy farm, use these supplemental materials to extend learning about agriculture, cows and milk processing.

Milk, Cow + Dairy Facts

We have compiled a host of facts about milk and cows that can be used in trivia games, research projects and more!

Classroom Handouts

These student handouts and classroom activity sheets are appropriate for a range of ages. Check them out and come up with creative ways to incorporate them into the classroom.

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Creative Cow Challenge

Cows


Use the provided handout and have your students express their creativity and share what they learned during the Mobile Dairy Classroom assembly. Selected entries will be posted on this webpage under Best-of-the-Herd.

Challenge Instructions: 

1. Make one copy of the cow template for each student.
2. Pass out the day or week following the Mobile Dairy Classroom assembly.
3. Students “Create-A-Cow” using the template and write what they learned.
4. Include name, school, teacher, grade and Mobile Dairy Classroom visit date on each entry.
5. Mail entries to: Dairy Council of California, 1101 National Drive, Suite B, Sacramento, CA 95834.
6. Check Mobile Dairy Classroom for selected entries to be posted at HealthyEating.org.
7. Kindergarten through fifth grade students are eligible to participate.
8. One entry per student. Entry must include student’s name, school, teacher and Mobile Dairy Classroom assembly date on the drawing

Best-of-Herd

 

 

 

Our K-12 sequential curriculum, turnkey nutrition lesson plans are:

  • easy to teach
  • aligned to standards
  • proven to influence students' healthy choices
  • focused on five food groups
  • FREE to California Teachers
Videos

These brief videos provide an inside look at dairy farming and milk handling.