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US Department of Agriculture

Choose My Plate: Dairy Nutrients and Health Benefits

For Students 9th - 10th
How does milk help maintain health? What nutrients are present in dairy products like milk, cheese, and yogurt? Find the answers to these questions and more.
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Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: "The Way to the Dairy" by h.h. Munro

For Students 9th - 10th
"The Way to the Dairy" is short story written by H.H. Munro, better known as Saki. Read the full text on this site.
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Vegetarian Resource Group: Vegetarian in a Nutshell

For Students 9th - 10th
This website on vegetarianism is organized into several, very brief sections. Here, read about vegetarian nutrition, recipes, and meat and dairy substitutes. Also included are the names of several books and learning materials -- for...
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Society for Science and the Public

Science News for Students: Better Chow Yields More Milk

For Students 9th - 10th
This article reports on a recent project from a teen that found that feeding a higher quality corn to dairy cows resulted in increased milk production. Includes a list of vocabulary words.
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Curated OER

Kids Health: Lactose Intolerance

For Students 3rd - 8th
Have you ever eaten ice cream then started feeling really yucky? Kids with lactose intolerance have trouble digesting a type of sugar found in milk and other dairy foods. Learn what this condition is and how you can learn to live with it.
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Countries and Their Cultures

Countries and Their Cultures: Nuristanis

For Students 9th - 10th
The area known as Nuristan is located at the southern end of the Hindu Kush mountain range in Afghanistan. There are limited amounts of arable land in the Hindu Kush, but there are abundant amounts of pastureland well suited for...
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: I Love Ice Cream, but It Doesn't Love Me: Lactose Intolerance

For Students 6th - 8th
Pizza, milk shakes, and ice cream sundaes all contain dairy products, therefore they cannot be eaten by the majority of people around the world. Dairy products contain the sugar molecule lactose, and the majority of people on the planet...
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University of Massachusetts

University of Massachusetts: Milk, Yogurt, and Cheese

For Students 9th - 10th
This brief article from the University of Massachusetts provides information on the nutritional values of milk products. Take a three-question quiz to test your knowledge of the milk food group.
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Wessels Living History Farm

Wessels Living History Farm

For Students 9th - 10th
The Wessels Living History Farm of York County, Nebraska, offers a look at what it was like to live on a Great Plains farm in the 1920s. The farm's attractive and well organized website includes interviews with people who remember life...
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History San Jose

For Students 9th - 10th
An organization that carefully preserves the history San Jose and Santa Clara Valley and provides education, research, exhibits and collections such as "Dairy Hill."
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Library of Congress

Loc: America's Story: Vermont

For Students 3rd - 5th
Vermont "beccame the 14th state in 1791." The major industries are dairy, farming, and ______? Come and find out the missing industry.
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A&E Television

History.com: Woodstock 1969: How a Music Festival That Should've Been a Disaster Became Iconic Instead

For Students 9th - 10th
Fifty years later, people are still trying to match the bizarre accident that was Woodstock '69. The Woodstock Music and Art Fair began on August 15, 1969, as half a million people gathered on a dairy farm in Bethel, New York. Billed as...
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Tongue River Farm: Milking Icelandic Sheep

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore the history and importance of sheep-based milk production, especially regarding Icelandic sheep. Numerous pictures of Icelandic sheep (and their full udders) are included.

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