Educational Resources
The Iowa Beef Industry Council is pleased to offer highly qualified peer-reviewed educational materials to Iowa teachers. These materials are made available by the beef checkoff, which is paid by Iowa cattle producers to fund beef education, promotion, and research programs.
These materials are free for Iowa teachers. Some materials may be downloaded and reproduced. Educators living outside Iowa may contact their State Beef Council.
Iowa Family and Consumer Science Teachers
- Check out our FCS resources on beef nutrition, selection and preparation.
Nutrition Information for Schools
How We Raise Cattle
- Beef...From Our Farm to Your Fork - Download this narrative, which gives an overview of the beef industry, and explains how Iowa cattle producers raise cattle, which produce nutrient-rich beef for consumers, around the world. Color photos are included.
- Explore Beef - and how we raise cattle around the U.S. Learn about the nearly 1 million U.S. cattle farmers and ranchers who work hard every day to raise good food, keep their animals healthy, protect the land and environment and build strong communities.
Elementary Educators
Beef. From Our Farm to Your Table** - education resources for elementary educators
The Iowa Beef Industry Council has developed a resource to help teach about where our food comes from. Two PowerPoint presentations and accompanying activities may be downloaded to teach students about cattle and the beef we get from them. Teachers have asked for photos of cattle, so the presentations contain many photos. While not all classrooms have technology to show PowerPoint presentations, the presentations can each be printed on a color printer and be read as a booklet. This entire disc may be ordered from the Iowa Beef Industry Council by emailing your name and mailing address to beef@iabeef.org.
Or you may download the kit below:
Current Available Resources
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2-3
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Wow that Cow!
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Coloring page with maze about the farm-to-table story of raising beef cattle. Has information on beef by-products.
One per student or youth; free.
Click to download PDF.
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Lower elementary
Upper elementary
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Wow that Cow!
My Cheeseburger Came from a Farm!
(see Beef. From Our Farm to Your Table to download the PowerPoint)
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Computer disc containing two PowerPoint presentations that can be used by individual students, shown to the class with an LCD projector or television screen, or printed off to form a booklet to read. Contains classroom activity handouts, lesson plans, volunteer presentation outline. Both presentations focus on cattle and their role in our environment, and the beef farm-to-table story.
One disc free per teacher or can be dowloaded as described above.
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Elementary
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Power Up with Lean Beef!
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Great beef recipes just for kids in this leaflet geared to elementary children.
Easy step-by-step directions teach kids basic cooking skills and safe food handling.
Includes easy recipes, nutrition information related to MyPyramid for kids, fun educational activities and a food diary encouraging healthy food choices.
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| Ages 5-8 |
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Beef Cattle an A-to-Z book introducers beef cattle and beef to children in preschool through early elementary. It uses a child's developing alphabet and reading skills to teach the basics of agricultural literacy. For Ages 5-8, 32 pages - paperback. Cost: $7.00 plus shipping.
Lesson plans can also be found HERE for this book.
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| Ages 8-11 |
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Beef Cattle in the Story of Agriculture is a book for children in the older elementary grades. In this book children first learn where and how beef cattle are raised. Then, how these cattle are processed into beef products that provide an important part of their diet, along with non-edible products that show up in everyday objects. Plus they discover, how beef products are distributed and marketed. For Ages 8-11, 32 pages - paperback. Cost: $7.00 plus shipping.
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