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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 2 – Did the Vikings Visit Maine?
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Did the Vikings Visit Maine? Background
Activity: Using a Drop Spindle
Spinning Yarn with a Drop Spindle
How to Prepare Fiber with Hand Carders
Using a Niddy Noddy
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Maine Fiber Teaching Kit Free to Maine Teacher
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Brief Description: It is likely that the Vikings were responsible for bringing woven cloth to the New World. Students will use a drop spindle and Niddy Noddy to spin and measure wool. Teachers may borrow a free kit with hand cards, fleece, and other items needed to teach this lesson.
Step By Step
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Brief Description: Students study the sequence of production to discover the resources required and the variety of careers involved to take a raw food from the farm to the consumer.
Perc Through the Pores
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Brief Description: By pretending to become soil particles and water droplets, students simulate soil particle sizes and their pore space.
In Harmony
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Brief Description: Students develop mapmaking, map reading, and graph reading skills as they learn the capabilities and limitations of our land resources by using a soil survey. In the process students begin to develop the knowledge needed to build a foundation for understanding the complex issues involved in making land use decisions in harmony with the land’s capability.