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Fiber Maine-ia 1 – Maine’s Fiber Beginnings

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Activity:  Braiding Grasses
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Brief Description:   Native Americans in Maine used many types of fibers throughout their history. In this lesson students will discuss the effect of climate and geography on their fiber choices and experience gathering and using tall grasses to braid into useful objects.

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Presto, Changeo

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Brief Description: Students will learn about the importance of green plants and the process of photosynthesis. They will learn new vocabulary and do experiments to test their hypotheses using plants. Students will also be able to act out and present the steps of Photosynthesis.

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Extreme Makeover

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Brief Description:  Students will research a topic by using multiple sources as well as mathematical functions, comparing and contrasting, and following verbal directions. Students will learn and understand the concept of life cycles, and recognize the similarities and differences in living organisms regarding their life stages and spans.

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There’s A Wiser Way

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Focus Areas: Integrated Pest Management (IPM); Science, Language Arts, Graphic Arts

Focus Skills: summarizing, understanding the main idea

Objectives

  • To illustrate an understanding of IPM
  • To recognize the need for reduction of chemical applications in pest management

Essential Question

How can Integrated Pest Management reduce the use of chemicals in managing pests?

Essential Understandings

  • IPM seeks to understand the lifestyle of a pest and determine the pest population before taking action.
  • IPM applies the most environmentally sound methods to pest management.

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Bug Busters

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Brief Description: Students will research, observe, and read for information on pest control, and nature’s food chain. Using this information students will understand and recognize that bats and other natural predators help control insect population and in doing so will find a deeper understanding of nature’s food chain.

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Pushy Plants

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Brief Description: Students will learn that all living things depend on plants and that plants that “overgrow” will threaten their habitat. They will also learn about invasive and endangered species of plants. Using their new vocabulary, students will play games and talk about methods to control these species.

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Nibble, Sip, and Grind

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Brief Description: Students will learn about different insect mouth parts and how that impacts their diet. They will observe, compare and contrast the three types of mouth parts using new vocabulary from the lesson. Students will also make hypotheses and experiment using variations of the three feeding types.

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