Dairy Lactation Lesson Plan

Objective: Students will discover dairy lactation history through a series of short YouTube videos on milk
production, learn about current milk production and facilities from video clips, and figure costs of their
own dairy facility as desired.
Activities: Woman milking cow video, Fullwood Revolution draaistal-carousel parlor video, Parts to the
udder competition, and cost analysis of designing a dairy facility.
Assessment: Design your own dairy facility, Udder dissection worksheet

Materials:
- Milking unit
- YouTube video clips
- Computer Lab-dairy facility research
- Milk
- Udder-for dissection/anatomy of udder