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Lesson Description: Students will explore career clusters and occupations related to family farm life and the Maine food system.… view full description & alignments
Pollinator Lesson 2 – Signs and Signals
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Lesson Description: (Follows “The Power of Pollination” Lesson) – Students will learn the variety of ways that flowers send messages to pollinators to ensure their own reproduction..… view full description & alignments
Pollinator Lesson 1 – The Power of Pollination
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Lesson Description: Students will learn how pollination yields fruit via insect services.… view full description & alignments
Aquaculture Lesson (K-2) – 10. Fish on a Farm
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Activity Description: The concept of fish farming is explored with comparisons made between farmed fish and wild fish.… view full description & alignments
Aquaculture Activity (K-5) – Games and Physical Activities
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Brief Description: The games and activities can be used as formal parts of lessons, to supplement on a day when you sped through your planned activities, or as a move around break. Some have already been included in other lessons.… view full description & alignments
Aquaculture Lesson (K-5) – 7. Seaweed Products and Marketing
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Lesson Description: Students discover the variety of products that contain seaweed. Working in small groups, they will select a product and create a mini-commercial for that product.… view full description & alignments
Plant, Harvest, Eat!
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Brief Description: Students partner with a local farm to bring food full cycle, from seed to crops, from harvest to table. Students plant, grow and harvest food crops for the cafeteria and learn about the growing process in the classroom. After harvesting the school purchases the local produce from the farm and school nutrition experts whip up delicious recipes for all students to enjoy.
The Incredible Edible Soil
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Lesson Description: Soil is the foundation of our whole food system, but is often cast aside as “just dirt.” This hands-on lesson allows students to explore the composition of soil and why it is so important, looking at different soil samples and then building their own edible “soil.”
Wild Blueberries for ME (3-5)
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Brief Description: Wild Blueberries for ME describes the history, growing and harvesting of this important Maine crop. After reading aloud to the class and discussing the content, students will be involved in English Language Arts and Visual Arts activities. Activities may be written or oral, determined by grade level and skills needed.
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The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
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Focus Areas: Pest Identification; Science
Focus Skills: observing, comparing/contrasting, drawing conclusions
Objectives
- To identify some of the important roles insects play on the Earth
- To identify insects that are harmful or helpful to the environment
Essential Questions
- How are insects important to life on Earth?
- How are insects helpful to people?
- How are insects harmful to people?
- How do insects affect farmers?
Essential Understandings
- Insects help people in many ways.
- Insects pollinate flowers and trees, enabling plants to reproduce.
- Many insects are garbage eaters, changing natural wastes into fertilizers.
- Insects