Lessons & Resources for Educators
Download This Full Activity: Games and Physical Activities
Brief Description: The games and activities can be used as formal parts of lessons, to supplement on a day when you sped through your planned activities, or as a move around break. Some have already been included in other lessons.… view full description & alignments
Download This Lesson: Grades 3-5 Wild Blueberries
Brief Description: Wild Blueberries for ME describes the history, growing and harvesting of this important Maine crop. After reading aloud to the class and discussing the content, students will be involved in English Language Arts and Visual Arts activities. Activities may be written or oral, determined by grade level and skills needed.
*The book is available online at www.TeachMEFoodandFarms.org/resources for your computer or smart board if you do not have it in your classroom.… view full description & alignments
Download This Lesson: Wild Blueberries for ME (Pre-K-2)
Brief Description: Wild Blueberries for ME describes the history, growing and harvesting of this important Maine crop. After reading aloud, students will be involved in English Language Arts and Health Education activities.
*The book is available online at www.TeachMEFoodandFarms.org/resources for your computer or smart board if you do not have it in your classroom.… view full description & alignments
Download This Lesson: Taste Testing
Brief Description: To build awareness of where food comes from and to encourage children to eat healthier, locally grown foods.
Download This Lesson: More Than Just Dust Bunnies
Brief Description: Students will learn about dust and its components using slides and microscopes. After reading about the history of the microscope students will look at dust, small organisms in dust and dust allergies using wet and dry slides. Using pictures and graphs students will present their findings.
Download This Lesson: Hygiene for Horror
Brief Description: Students will understand cause and effect as well as comparing and contrasting in this lesson and by the end will be able to draw conclusions. Students will learn what contributes to the spread of infectious disease and how pest management can control the spread of infectious disease.
Download This Lesson: Advertising Wild Blueberries
Brief Description: Students will explore the role of advertising in influencing consumer choices. Students will then utilize methods employing language and visual arts to develop their own advertisements and/or commercials to promote the sale of Maine’s wild blueberries.
Download This Lesson: Wild Blueberry Math
Brief Description: The students will examine, interpret and manipulate real-life data about the economics of wild blueberry production.
Download This Lesson: Health & Nutrition – Wild Blueberry Style
Brief Description: The students will learn about nutrition labeling and the nutritional value and other health benefits of wild blueberries, and design their own nutritious, wild blueberry food product with a nutrition label.
