Lessons & Resources for Educators
Download This Lesson: Wild Blueberry Poetry
Brief Description: The students will explore poetry and art using the wild blueberry as the object of their efforts. They will write and illustrate a poem using descriptive language and read their poems to the class.
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: Wild Blueberry History & Geography
Brief Description: The students will explore the impact of wild blueberries on the history and culture of several human populations as well as map the geography. An example of civics in action will be addressed in the story of Megan Frank.
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.
Download This Lesson: What Piece Of The Pie?
Brief Description: Students explore the economics of consumer food products by analyzing who gets what portion of the price we pay for our food.
Download This Lesson: It All Starts With A
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.
Download This Lesson: Don’t Use It All Up!
Brief Description: Students participate in a sponge demonstration to discover that people are consumers of resources and explore methods of conserving those resources.
Download This Lesson: In Harmony
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.