Flat Aggie: All About Dairy

With each Flat Aggie report, I’ll be putting together a list additional resources, websites, recipes, books, and activities.  Use this and farmer math from A Kansas Farm Mom to bring Flat Aggie’s Agmazing Adventures to life!

Use with Flat Aggie Visits Keriel Dairy.

Classroom Activities & Resources

From National Ag In The Classroom

• Meat or Milk? Beef or Dairy? Activity
• Cowabunga: All About Dairy Breeds

From Illinois Ag In The Classroom: Dairy Ag Mag (compatible with smartboards)

Books

• Clarabelle by Cris Peterson (ISBN-13: 978-1590783108)
• Click, Clack, Moo by Doreen Cronin & Betsy Lewin (ISBN-13: 978-1442433700)
• Extra Cheese, Please! by Cris Peterson (ISBN-13: 978-1590782460)
• Hooray for Dairy Farming by Bobbie Kalman
• Food: Milk by Louise Spilsbury
• The Butter Battle by Dr. Seuss

Web Resources

• MooMilk
• Wisconsin Dairy Council
• Discover Dairy
• Midwest Dairy

Shake it Up ~ Butter Making Recipe
Ingredients
• 1 empty baby food jar (or larger size pimiento jar with tight fitting lid)
• whipping cream
• good music
• smiling & screaming kids

Directions
1. Take 1 jar and fill 1/2 with whipping cream
2. Add several kids dancing and shaking with jars in hand
3. BINGO!! Butter!
4. Add a little salt and spread on sandwich bread.
5. It’s delicious
6. 1 teaspoon sour cream per 1/2 pint of whipping cream can be added