Lessons & Resources for Educators
Download This Full Lesson: From Apple Cores to Healthy Soil
Lesson Description: A composting experiment reveals to students how soil organisms, temperature, air, and water are able to decompose organic waste and enrich soil.… view full description & alignments
Download This Full Lesson: Buzzy, Buzzy Bee
Lesson Description: Students play a game in which they pretend to be honeybees and apple trees. In the process, they learn about plant pollination.… view full description & alignments
Download This Full Lesson: Breads Around the World
Lesson Description: Students learn the cultural and nutritional significance of bread throughout the world by working in groups to solve a logic-matrix activity.… view full description & alignments
Download This Full Lesson: Banking on Seeds
Lesson Description: The critical role that seeds play in the world is explored through creating a seed bank and comparing uses of seeds.… view full description & alignments
Download This Full Lesson: Seasons Through the Year
Lesson Description: To build awareness of seasonal change, students use their own birth dates, a com- parison of seasons in different settings, and self-made books.… view full description & alignments
Download This Full Lesson: Till We or Won’t We?
Lesson Description: Students construct and perform experiments simulating rain on a field, investigating how soil preparation, tillage techniques, and mulches affect soil erosion and water runoff.… view full description & alignments
Download This Full Lesson: Create Your Own Recipe!
Lesson Description: Within small groups students will be guided to go through three large steps in creating their own recipe, which could be broken up into three different lessons, or one long lesson.… view full description & alignments
Download This Full Lesson: Create a Label
Lesson Description: Groups work in teams to select a value-added product, and design a marketing label.… view full description & alignments
Download This Full Lesson: Maine Blueberries and Macarons – Delicious Possibilities!
Lesson Description: Through class discussion, self reflection, viewing University of Maine Cooperative Extension videos (blueberries and macarons), students will explore how habits of work and learning (habits of mind) impact future career success.… view full description & alignments
Download This Full Lesson: A Lifetime of Farming
Lesson Description: Students will explore career clusters and occupations related to family farm life and the Maine food system.… view full description & alignments