Title: Dairy Princesses and Princes
Audience: First Grade
Duration: An Afternoon
Objectives:
Students will discover what dairy farmers do on their farms.
Students will recognize that dairy farms have an important impact on the community and on their lives.
Children will understand that milk in its many forms is a source of nutrition.
Children will describe the safeguards for keeping milk fresh and clean.
Process Skills:
- Observation
- Prediction
- Communication
- Identification
- Description
Standards:
4.3 Identify the natural resourcesused to make various products.
Identify resources used to provide humans with energy, food, employment, housing and water.
4.4 Pennsylvania crops that provide food for the table and fiberfor textiles.
Explain how agriculturemeets the basic needs of humans.
Identify tools and machinery used in agricultural processes.
Materials:
The following centers will be used
Making Butter: baby food jars and heavy cream
Testing Station: different types of milk to taste
Making Cheese: warm milk, vinegar, cheese cloth
Cow Parlor: rubber gloves with holes in the fingers, milk and pail
Plant A Crop: soil, choice of pot and plant
Anticipatory Set:
An introduction and story from the Dairy Princess. The Dairy Princess will use her lesson plan, story and skit which she has prepared for school visits.
Procedures:
All centers will be set up while the children are at lunch. Dairy Day will begin immediately following lunch.
Dairy Princess arrives and introduces dairy day with story and/or skit.
She will then explain how they can become her little princesses and princes for the day. We will then explain thedirections for each center. The children will be divided into 5 groups and assigned their first center. They will explore each center at 15minute intervals.
Closure:As center time draws to a close, the children, the Dairy Princess and I will gather on the rug to review the day including a short assessment (describing, identifying and communicating) what they have learned. The closing ceremony will include music, presentations, dairy snacks and of course, tiaras for the princesses and crowns for the princes.