Lessons & Resources for Educators
Download This Lesson: Advertising Wild Blueberries
Brief Description: Students will explore the role of advertising in influencing consumer choices. Students will then utilize methods employing language and visual arts to develop their own advertisements and/or commercials to promote the sale of Maine’s wild blueberries.
Download This Lesson: Wild Blueberry History & Geography
Brief Description: The students will explore the impact of wild blueberries on the history and culture of several human populations as well as map the geography. An example of civics in action will be addressed in the story of Megan Frank.
Download This Lesson: Health & Nutrition – Wild Blueberry Style
Brief Description: The students will learn about nutrition labeling and the nutritional value and other health benefits of wild blueberries, and design their own nutritious, wild blueberry food product with a nutrition label.
Download This Lesson: Animals & Wild Blueberries
Brief Description: Students will explore the interaction of several animals with the wild blueberry including, but not limited to, honey-bees, bumblebees, black bears and pest insects.
Download The Lesson: Soil Is Not Trivial
Brief Description: Using facts about the Dust Bowl, students write questions and playa trivia activity focused around the establishment of a national soil conservation program and the importance of soil. Students then explore and/or develop a plan to address a local soil conservation issue.
Download This Lesson: What Piece Of The Pie?
Brief Description: Students explore the economics of consumer food products by analyzing who gets what portion of the price we pay for our food.
Download This Lesson: Step By Step
Brief Description: Students study the sequence of production to discover the resources required and the variety of careers involved to take a raw food from the farm to the consumer.
Download This Lesson: Perc Through The Pores
Brief Description: By pretending to become soil particles and water droplets, students simulate soil particle sizes and their pore space.
Download This Lesson: Let’s Celebrate!
Brief Description: Students explore in their own lives and in the lives of others the role of celebrations and important foods involved, with a focus on corn.
Download This Lesson: It All Starts With A
Brief Description: Students conduct surveys to learn what agriculture provides to people. They organize, simplify, and communicate their findings using tallies, frequency tables, and histograms.