Phenomenon-based learning is a strategy that shifts students from studying a topic and instead encourages students to actively figure out how and why something happens. Students observe an unexplained phenomenon and then begin asking questions that become the framework for their research and investigations.
Midwest Dairy has worked with the Food and Agriculture Center for Science Education to create several dairy-centered phenomena lesson plans in this easy-to-access phenomena bank. Access resources that support students to discover and research how butter is made from cream, the frequencies of lactase persistence worldwide, lactic acid bacteria, how manure from cows can be turned into electrical power, why milk is a great recovery drink, and how milk provides relief to people who enjoy eating spicy peppers.