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Essential Question: How did wild blueberries become one of Maine’s most important agricultural commodities?… 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
Fiber Maine-ia 8 – Maine Fiber Today
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Maine Fiber Today Background
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.
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.
Don’t Use It All Up!
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Brief Description: Students participate in a sponge demonstration to discover that people are consumers of resources and explore methods of conserving those resources.
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.