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Beef or Dairy?

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Guernsey, Jersey, Holstein. Brangus, Charoloais, Herford. Here’s a truly cross-curricular resource that combines language arts, science, math, and visual arts activities as class members learn to distinguish between beef and dairy cattle. Did you know that dairy cows are shaped like a trapezoid while beef cattle are rectangular in shape? 

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cattle, venn diagrams

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K - 3rd
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Math
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