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Street Cows

For Teachers K - 4th
A light, and humorous lesson on "street cows" is here for you. Learners listen to the story, "Street Cows," which is embedded in the plan. On a map of the US and the World, they locate the cities where the "Cows on Parade" exhibit was...
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Unit Plan
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Farmer McPeepers and His Missing Milk Cows

For Teachers K - 3rd
Pair your reading of Farmer McPeepers and His Missing Milk Cows with the questions and activities provided here. Learners answer questions about the text, create story maps, put together brochures, relate math to the story, practice...
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Things We Can Learn From a Cow and a Worm

For Students 4th - 5th
In this conservation worksheet, students answer 5 questions about how cows and worms recycle and conserve natural resources. Students then fill in a Venn diagram outlining ways they can recycle and conserve.
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Wow! It's A Cow!

For Teachers K - 1st
Students use the Internet to visit a dairy farm and watch the ins and outs of the every day life of a dairy cow. They survey products that are consumed that come from a cow. The students determine in what states cows would most likely...
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Worksheet
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Cow: Print and Color 8

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In this word recognition worksheet, learners trace the word "cow," write the word independently, and color the picture of the cow.
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Worksheet
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Cow: Print and Color 10

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In this word recognition activity, students trace the word "cow," write the word independently, and color the picture of the cows.
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Worksheet
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Cow: Print and Color 6

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In this word recognition worksheet, students trace the word "cow," write the word independently, and color the picture of the cow.
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Worksheet
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Cows

For Students K - 1st
In this cows worksheet, students color pictures of cows. Students color 3 cows in this picture. One cow is eating grass and the others are standing upright.
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Worksheet
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Coloring Cows

For Students K - 1st
For this cows worksheet, learners color a picture of cows and cut and paste them onto another worksheet. Students color and cut out 3 cows.
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Measurement Cow

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
After a class discussion that revolves around the measurements that most milk cartons come in, learners dig deeper to understand the mathematical relationships between these units of measurement. A very cute, and quite-effective...
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Worksheet
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From Cows To Cartons a Look At Milk

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this dairy industry worksheet, learners complete 5 multiple choice and 10 true or false questions based on reading about cows, milk and the dairy industry.
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Organizer
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Make a Cow Mask

For Students K - 2nd
In this mask making worksheet, students follow 8 steps to make a cow mask out of paper. Students may use the cow mask for various classroom activities.
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The Purple Cow

For Teachers K - 2nd
  Young scholars read and discuss the poem, The Purple Cow.  In this poetry lesson, students discuss the rhyming words in the poem and why this piece of literature is silly or unusual.     
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Come Into my Parlor

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
An interesting cross-curricular lesson on dairy farming awaits your students. Elements of language arts, math, social studies, and agriculture are all present. Many excellent worksheets and a good article on dairy farming are included in...
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The Brain Eater

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers view a video clip about Mad Cow Disease. They identify the challenges of health professionals in dealing with the disease. They work together to complete a Public Health Task Force worksheet. They make recommendations...
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Worksheet
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A Cow Needs…

For Students 2nd - 5th
In this cow fact worksheet, students write in 10 circles what a cow needs. No information or facts are provided on the page.
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Diseases Without Borders

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students use the European Union's struggle with Mad Cow Disease as a starting point to study the spread of infectious diseases across geographical boundaries.
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Cow Printing

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this literacy instructional activity, students practice the skill of printing to create a full sentence following the theme of the illustration that can be colored also.
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Dissection Scramble

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students discover the anatomy of a human body by dissecting a cow's eye.  In this animal dissection instructional activity, students identify the structure of an eyeball by cutting open a cow eye and observing the insides....
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Make a Farm

For Teachers Pre-K - 4th
After a class discussion about where their food comes from learners construct a farm from a print-out (embedded in the plan). They work in groups, and trace a food source from the beginning. For example, they discover how a farmer grows...
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Vermicomposting

For Teachers 1st
First graders investigate composting. In this biology lesson, 1st graders identify ways to use garbage as fertilizer. Students examine soil and compost matter as well as the role of worms in the dirt.
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Worksheet
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The Price of Beef

For Students 4th - 6th
In this money worksheet, students compare how much someone can earn from selling the weight of an organic cow versus a regular cow. Students complete 4 problems.
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Lesson Plan
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Where Does Food Come From?

For Teachers Pre-K
Distinguish between food and non-food items. Recognize that food is obtained from both plant and animal sources. Identify sources for some common animal foods then construct a simple food path from the farm to the consumer.
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Cow Parade

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners create individual works of art using cow cut-outs as their canvas in this hilarious instructional activity ideal for the High School Art or Art History classroom. The instructional activity includes resource links and can be...