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October 8, 2024

Managing Pests

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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

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October 8, 2024

Investigating Insects

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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

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October 8, 2024

Gala Fiesta Jamboree

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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

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October 8, 2024

Breads Around the World

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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

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January 6, 2020

Growing Aspirations 5: Create Your Own Recipe!

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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

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January 6, 2020

Growing Aspirations 4: Create A Label

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Lesson Description: Groups work in teams to select a value-added product, and design a marketing label.… view full description & alignments

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January 6, 2020

Growing Aspirations 3: Maine Blueberries and Macarons – Delicious Possibilities!

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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

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January 6, 2020

Growing Aspirations 2: Growing Aspirations – Sweet!

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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

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January 6, 2020

Growing Aspirations 1: A Lifetime of Farming

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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

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June 26, 2017

Aquaculture Lesson (MS/HS) – 2. Ocean Chemistry

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Kelp aquaculture is a new and growing industry in Maine. Because kelp is a macroalgae, it requires different growing conditions than shellfish or finfish. Many kelp aquaculturists start growing kelp in a laboratory setting and set out the seeds in the fall. Over the winter, the kelp grows and is ready to harvest in early spring. Kelp is unique in that it absorbs nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P) and carbon dioxide (CO2), all of which are harmful to the environment in excess amounts. Once the kelp is … view full description & alignments

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