2.30 Handy Milking
This is Lesson 30 (“Handy Milking”) from the National FFA Mentoring Program’s Grow Your PALS Program Guide, Animal Science unit. In this one-on-one mentoring lesson, students compare past and present methods of milking cows—including a hands-on glove “udder” milking demonstration—and trace the steps milk takes from the producer to the consumer.
At a glance
- Learning objectives
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- Compare past and present methods of milking cows.
- Show the steps milk goes through from the producer to the consumer.
- Time required
- Instruction time for this lesson: 20 minutes.
- Materials
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- latex rubber gloves
- straight pins or safety pins
- clothesline
- milking pail
- stool or chair
- water
- PALS.30.AS.A – 1 per student
- Unit
- Animal Science
- Lesson Type
- One-on-one
- Precepts
- F. Continuous Improvement; F4. Adapt to emerging technologies
- Key Terms
- Hand-milking; milking machines
- Resources
- How it's Made: Milk (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIbVwE5zb1Y); Murphy, Andy. Out and About at the Dairy Farm. Bloomington, Mn. Picture Window Books, 2003.
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Aligned Standards
National Standards
- NSS-USH.K-4.1Living and Working Together in Families and communities, Now and Long Ago