Brenna Sullivan, pictured at left, shows fourth-graders how to turn a Ziploc bag of milk, vanilla and sugar into ice cream right before their eyes. Pictured clockwise from top around the pod of desks are Eduardo Hermosillo Goytia, Emma Sprague and Luis Perez. —Johnson Publications
Farm-to-table lesson comes from HS to 4th-grade desks
What better way to learn the farm-to-table journey of milk than by making ice cream right at your desk?
HHS animal science and environmental and plant sciences classes have been visiting fourth-grade classrooms to teach the younger students what they have been learning in their ag classes, hoping to spark an interest in agriculture at an early age.
Animal science students visited most recently Friday, April 21, to teach about dairy products. Brendan Mayden, Tyler Camblin, Mark Ramos, Colby Purkeypile, Brenna Sullivan and Trent Huffman first divvied out large baggies of ice and salt and small baggies of milk, sugar and vanilla. With one bag inside the other, fourth-graders shook the ingredients into ice cream right at their desks, then enjoyed the treat while taking notes on the journey of milk.
The high schoolers’ presentation started with the dairy cattle’s feed and moved through milking, testing, processing and distributing. They then showed students how to use a code stamped onto dairy products to trace the milk back to its original dairy using whereismymilkfrom.com.
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