We hope you can utilize these resources and activities to enhance your classroom experience! 

• Wear Your Milk: Milk fabric, or milk cotton, is an eco-friendly textile made from casein, a milk protein. It’s known for being soft, durable, and breathable with a cotton-like texture. The production process uses minimal water and low-impact dyes, making it sustainable. Although milk fabric originated in the 1930s, advancements in technology have improved its viability, blending it often with cotton or silk for added durability. Teachers can use this topic to explore sustainable textiles and biotechnology in the classroom. 
  
  Age group? Middle school. Learn more about the process of milk cotton fabric! 

• Dairy Recycling Lessons: Water and milk are important partners in dairy farming; in fact, milk is 90 percent water. Only about 1 percent of the Earth’s fresh water is suitable for human, plant, and animal use, so conserving water in dairy farming is as important a goal for farmers as it should be for your students and their families — because we all share the same local watershed, whether we live in a rural, suburban, or urban community.
  
  Age group? Grades 2-4. Click here for lessons and activities related to dairy recycling.