Download This Full Activity: Aquaculture Crossword
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The Soil’s Alive
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Brief Description: Discover more about what lives in the soil and what it is composed of.
Seed Germination Competition
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Brief Description: Students will sprout seeds in different conditions to learn how seeds germinate.
Milk Matters
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Brief Description: Students will make ice cream or butter so they can observe the process of the liquid changing to a solid.
Taste Testing
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Brief Description: To build awareness of where food comes from and to encourage children to eat healthier, locally grown foods.
Fiber Maine-ia 8 – Maine Fiber Today
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Activity: Discovering Maine’s Fiber Producers, Processors, and Artists
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Brief Description: Students will research the revival of Maine’s Fiber industry with the establishment of small farms and mills. Using a map of Maine students will use computers to visit specific web-sites to learn about modern Maine fiber production.
Fiber Maine-ia 7 – Mills and Money
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Activity: Getting to Know a Maine Mill Girl
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Lowell Mill Girls
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Brief Description: Mills gradually took over the spinning and weaving jobs done at home. Because of the number of rivers in Maine, water power was plentiful so many mills and mill towns were established. Mills carded, spun yarn and wove fabric. Maine was even involved in the production of silk thread in the mid to late 19th century. Often very young people worked in the mills and the jobs were dangerous. Students will discover what working … 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.
Fiber Maine-ia 5 – A Colorful Life
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Activity: Dying Yarn
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Maine Fiber Teaching Kit Free to Maine Teachers
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Brief Description: Students will learn that Native Americans and colonists used natural substances to dye fibers, adding color to clothing, blankets and baskets. Mordants were used to “set” the color. Dyed materials were used to create many colonial weaving patterns. Students will be using natural substances to dye fiber/fabric samples of their own.
Fiber Maine-ia 4 – Weaving a Life in a New Land
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Activity: Weaving Cloth
Floor Loom
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Weaving on a Cardboard Loom
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Brief Description: Students will learn that farms in the New World raised sheep and grew flax for fiber to weave. Students learn what a loom is and will use a small loom to learn basic weaving techniques.