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Essential Question: How did wild blueberries become one of Maine’s most important agricultural commodities?… view full description & alignments
War and the Rise of the Cannery
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Essential Question: How have history, technology, and innovation shaped the foods we eat today?… view full description & alignments
The Colonists
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Essential Question: How did colonists adapt what they learned in Maine?… view full description & alignments
People of the Dawn
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Essential Question: How do different beliefs about land influence the way people care for it?… view full description & alignments
Before the Berries—Maine’s Glacial Past
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Essential Question: How did glaciers help create the perfect home for Maine’s wild blueberries?… view full description & alignments
Fiber Maine-ia 6 – Stitches and Stories
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Activity: Traditional Rug Hooking
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Rug Hooking
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Brief Description: Students will learn how early Maine families used worn out or outgrown clothing to make quilts, rugs and other useful items. Both boys and girls learned to sew. Students will research early samplers and rugs and make a basic rug using early techniques.
Johnny Appleseed Would Be Proud
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Brief Description: Students will be able to diagnose and develop an action plan for control of an apple disease using their resources. Apple diseases will be discussed and students will be able to use the internet, articles and pictures to identify the disease. Using Integrated Pest Management methods they will create outlines and visual aids to present to the class.
Pesticide Wise
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Brief Description: Students will learn about the selection, handling, storage and disposal of pesticides. They will read about the background of pesticide use and the harm it can pose. Students will look at new vocabulary and the information given on labels to find important information.
Soil Is Not Trivial
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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.
It All Starts With A
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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.