Download This Full Lesson: From Common Land to Commodity
Essential Question: How did wild blueberries become one of Maine’s most important agricultural commodities?… view full description & alignments
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Download This Full Lesson: From Common Land to Commodity
Essential Question: How did wild blueberries become one of Maine’s most important agricultural commodities?… view full description & alignments
Download This Full Lesson: War and the Rise of the Cannery
Essential Question: How have history, technology, and innovation shaped the foods we eat today?… view full description & alignments
Download This Full Lesson: The Colonists
Essential Question: How did colonists adapt what they learned in Maine?… view full description & alignments
Download This Full Lesson: People of the Dawn
Essential Question: How do different beliefs about land influence the way people care for it?… view full description & alignments
Download This Full Lesson: Before the Blueberries
Essential Question: How did glaciers help create the perfect home for Maine’s wild blueberries?… view full description & alignments
Download This Full Lesson: Wild Blueberry Silly Sentences – Fact or Fiction
Lesson Description: This activity pairs with the book Wild Blueberries for ME and helps students understand sentence construction and statements that are fact or fiction. In this activity students will construct silly wild blueberry themed sentences, choose a favorite, and illustrate it. They will write their blueberry silly sentence (fiction) and a blueberry fact (non-fiction) from the book Wild Blueberries for ME. … view full description & alignments
Download This Full Lesson: We’re into Pumpkins
Lesson Description: Through hands-on, interdisciplinary activities, students learn about pumpkins as fruits and as food sources.… view full description & alignments
Download This Full Lesson: The Plant and Me
Lesson Description: By discussing, observing, and role-playing, students learn that plants and people have similar needs for survival.… view full description & alignments
Download This Full Lesson: Seed Surprises
Lesson Description: By sorting and planting seeds, students discover seeds come in a variety of sizes, shapes and colors, as well as produce plants.… view full description & alignments
Download This Full Lesson: Root, Root for Life
Lesson Description: Students discover the importance of roots to plants, soil and people during hands-on learning station activities.… view full description & alignments