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Welcome to the UEN Cheese Science Club toolkit! Whether you are an interested citizen or a high school student, food science is a wonderful way to add excitement to the classroom, your stomach and your life. The main objectives of the Cheese Science Clubs are: to encourage leadership, to allow Utah citizens a fuller understanding of the scope of food (cheese), science and technology, and to expand awareness of the field of food and science in our daily lives and throughout our community. This toolkit contains everything you will need to gather students, friends, or colleagues to create a Cheese Science Club.
 

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21 Cheese Club Activity Ideas

1. Watch Cheese Slices as a club.
2. Ask a cheese making expert, biologist, chemist, and/or engineer etc. to do a demonstration with your group to learn more about the STEM and cheese connection.
3. Take a field trip to a dairy farm/ cheese artisan company/cheese slicing and packaging plant.
4. Create a Utah-based Cheese show Episode.
5. Watch Wallace and Gromit Eat Cheese.
6. Make cheese!
7. Invite a Cheese Monger to give a presentation and help with tastings. Find out: Why the title of Monger? How do you use science, technology, engineering and math in your job? What is their favorite cheesey fact?
8. Create a social network site for your Cheese Club.
9. Meet with a cheese club from another school or community and share cheese fun and ideas.
10. Have a favorite fruit and/or savory food and cheese pairing event (ask a Cheese Monger for help).
11. Take a virtual tour of countries famous for cheese making (use CultureGrams).
12. Make pizza with variations of cheeses, and go beyond Mozzarella.
13. Invite a chef to talk about recipes with various cheeses.
14. Meet in a computer lab or bring laptops to a club meeting and play Cheese Fun games from uen.org/tv/cheese.
15. Ask a Cheese Monger to help you taste a different cheese from the 11 different countries featured on Cheese Slices.
16. Ask a Cheese Monger to help you try at least 3 different Utah-made cheeses.
17. Investigate cheese from Africa and Asia.
18. Make a timeline of a favorite cheese.
19. Investigate Microbiology and Cheese: find out about microbes found in cheese.
20. Investigate Technology and Cheese: Name a machine used in cheese making (modern or traditional), invite a guest speaker to discuss the technology or go on fieldtrip to learn about Cheese Industry Technology.
21. Create your own Cheese Club Favorite Cheese Recipes Book.

 

Outreach Resources
Contact a Local Cheese Monger, Cheese Artisan or other Cheese Expert

Southern Utah	Northern Utah	Wasatch Front	Wasatch Front
Harmons Dixie 1189 E. 700 S. St. George, UT 84790-4022 (435) 628-0411	Beehive Cheese Company, LLC 2440 East 6600 South #8 Uintah, Utah 84405 (801)476.0900	Harmons Bangerter Crossing 125 E 13800 S   Draper, UT 84020 (801) 617-0111	Caputo’s Market and Deli Matt 314 West 300 South Salt Lake City, UT (801)-531- 8669
4-H Offices	Gossner Foods, Inc. 1051 North 1000 West Logan, Utah 84321-6852 (435)-713-6100	Harmons Brickyard 3270 S. 1300 E. Salt Lake City, UT 84106-3008 (801) 487-7736	Liberty Heights Fresh 1290 South 1100 East Salt Lake City, UT 84105-1813 (801) 467-2434
Central Utah	Harmons Five Points 37 N. Harrisville Rd.  Ogden, UT 84404-3975 (801) 621-2532	Harmons Cougar 4874 W. 6200 S. Kearns, UT 84118-670 (801) 965-9450	Willow Lane Dairy Goats 1856 Drake Lane West Jordan, UT 84084 (801) 255-MILK (6455)
Harmons Orchards 870 E. 800 N. Orem, UT 84097-4245 (801) 225-1770	Harmons Roy 5370 S. 1900 W.  Roy, UT 84067-2907 (801) 825-2788	Harmons Taylorsville 5454 S. Redwood Rd. Taylorsville, UT 84123-5319 (801) 967-9213	4-H Offices
Red Rock Cheese Jon Nilson 1365 North Highway 6  Delta, Utah  84624 (435) 864-2430	Rock Hill Creamery Pete Schropp & Jennifer Hines PO Box 377 Richmond, UT 84333 (435)258.1278	Harmons The District 11453 S Parkway Plaza Dr South Jordan, UT 84095-5614 (801) 495-5402
Shepherd’s Cheese Tooele Valley	Western Dairy Center 8700 Old Main Hill Logan, UT 84322-8700 (435) 797-3466	Harmons South Jordan 10507 S. Redwood Rd. South Jordan, UT 84095-8504 (801) 446-9984
4-H Offices	4-H Offices

 

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