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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.
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.
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 3 – European Trappers and Traders
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Activity: Finger Crochet a Trapper’s Belt
Learn How to Finger Crochet with Kids
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Brief Description: Students will learn about early trappers and traders and their role in the development of North America. These Europeans used the available resources to survive and flourish. Students will be involved in research to produce a report or art project, as well as the finger crochet project.
Fiber Maine-ia 4 – Weaving a Life in a New Land
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Activity: Weaving Cloth
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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.
Fiber Maine-ia 1 – Maine’s Fiber Beginnings
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Activity: Braiding Grasses
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Brief Description: Native Americans in Maine used many types of fibers throughout their history. In this lesson students will discuss the effect of climate and geography on their fiber choices and experience gathering and using tall grasses to braid into useful objects.
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
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Focus Areas: Pest Identification; Science
Focus Skills: observing, comparing/contrasting, drawing conclusions
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- To identify some of the important roles insects play on the Earth
- To identify insects that are harmful or helpful to the environment
Essential Questions
- How are insects important to life on Earth?
- How are insects helpful to people?
- How are insects harmful to people?
- How do insects affect farmers?
Essential Understandings
- Insects help people in many ways.
- Insects pollinate flowers and trees, enabling plants to reproduce.
- Many insects are garbage eaters, changing natural wastes into fertilizers.
- Insects
People Need Plants
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Brief Description: Students will be able to identify parts of a plant and recognize the importance of plants in our daily diet. They will learn new vocabulary and use these in activities pertaining to their own eating habits.