Dairy Byproducts
Teacher Preparation
Learning Goal
Upon completion of this lesson students will be able to understand that dairy products extend beyond milk, cheese, ice cream, etc. and be able to identify a few key byproducts.
Learning Standards
- PS1.3 Gather and make sense of information to describe that synthetic materials come from natural resources and impact society.
- SS: 6.4 The student will analyze the interactions of humans and their environment in the
Western Hemisphere.
- 6.4.1 Describe the commercial agriculture and industrial regions that support human development.
- 6.4.2 Evaluate the effects of human modification on the natural environment through transformation caused by subsistence and commercial agriculture, industry, demand for energy, and urbanization.
- OKH.6.2 Analyze the impact of economic growth in various sectors including:
- C. continuing role of agriculture
Resources & Materials
- Iowa State Byproducts Bingo
- By-products of dairy industry
- Products with Hidden Dairy
- Casein in Health
- Surprising Foods that Contain Milk
- Southwest Southland Dairy Farmers- The Dairy Industry: Protecting Out Environment and Future
- Visuals in the center
- Student tour guides
Lesson Delivery
Anticipatory Set
- Has anyone had any dairy products today? (Milk in their cereal, ice cream, yogurt, etc.)
- What is the weirdest dairy product that you know of?
- Take a few answers, make sure they understand that dairy products are produced from milk and dairy cows.
- Did you know that there are a lot of things that use byproducts of dairy in them? Today we are going to learn about the surprising products that have dairy in them.
Direct Instruction
1st Learning Goal: Upon completion of this lesson students will be able to understand that dairy products extend beyond milk, cheese, ice cream, etc. and be able to identify a few key byproducts.
Content Outline |
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What is a Byproduct?
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What are the Main Dairy Byproducts?
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Lactose |
Lactose
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Casein
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Whey
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Learning Activity
Students should be provided with images (some byproducts of dairy production, others that aren’t), at the conclusion of the presentation they should sort images into groups of which images aren’t byproducts and those that are byproducts of lactose, casein, or whey.
Assessment
Questions similar to the following should be asked:
- What is lactose?
- What is whey?
- What is casein?
- What is one product you learned about that you didn’t know was a dairy byproduct before today?
Closing Announcements/Reminders
- Answer any questions they may have
- Show them the robot and viewing windows one more time
- Thank students for coming to the Ferguson Family Dairy