Lessons & Resources for Educators
Download This Full Lesson: Managing Pests
Lesson Description: Students analyze the advantages and disadvantages of pest-management techniques and use a problem-solving model to evaluate alternatives for specific pest management issues.… view full description & alignments
Download This Full Lesson: Investigating Insects
Lesson Description: Students become entomologists by observing insects in their nearby surroundings. After observing and analyzing, they learn by playing a game how some insect interactions can be useful to people.… view full description & alignments
Download This Full Lesson: Gala Fiesta Jamboree
Lesson Description: Students explore the role of celebrations in diverse cultures, their class, and the local community. After interviewing community members about favorite celebrations, they research various cultures’ harvest festivals and prepare a celebration presentation for the class.… 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: 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: Growing Aspirations – Sweet!
Lesson Description: This lesson’s focus is on large concepts such as Habits of Minds, Food Systems of Maine, and Agribusiness. The unit may include lessons on other aspects of the standard such as positive self- concept, and the personal interests and skills lessons.… 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
