Wild Blueberries – Producing

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Brief Description: Students will explore the production of wild blueberries as it relates to their yearly life cycle, technology, and the food system. Students will then utilize methods employing language and visual arts to develop written and oral accounts of the production of Maine’s wild blueberries.

 

objectives:

The students will:

1. listen to an oral account or read about the yearly production of Maine’s wild blueberries in Producing Wild Blueberries – A Two Year Cycle and sequence artwork to coincide with that life cycle/production cycle.
2. develop captions for the artwork using correct terminology.
3. write, in their own words, a description of the annual cycles to produce wild blueberries in Maine and the process that brings those wild blueberries to the consumer.
4. prepare a poster (using a variety of resources) and oral presentation of the wild blueberry production process.

life skills:

Sequencing, developing vocabulary, understanding systems, understanding seasons, writing to explain or describe

materials:

• Copies of the wild blueberry artwork
• Poster board
• Art supplies including scissors and paste
• Pens/pencils and paper

Estimated teaching time:

Two or three 45-minute to one-hour class periods

preparation:

• Gather the necessary art supplies and poster board
• Make copies of the artwork

vocabulary:

Acidic, clone, cross-pollination, highbush blueberries, Integrated Crop Management (ICM), Integrated Pest Management (IPM), irrigation, lowbush blueberries, pH, pruning, rakers, rhizome

Correlations to State of Maine Learning Results: Parameters for Essential Instruction

Content Area	Performance Indicator	Grades 3-5 Descriptor(s)	Grades 6-8 Descriptor(s)
English Language Arts	B1	d	e
	B3	a, b	a, b
	E1	a, b	a, b, c
	E2	a, b, c	a, b
Science and Technology	A1	a, b	a, b, c
	A3	a	a
	C3	b
	E2	a, c, e	a, b
Social Studies	C2	b	b
	E2	b

Alignment to Common Core Standards for English Language Arts and Mathematics

Grade/Grade Span	English Language Arts
Grades 3	Writing: Text Types & Purposes – 2a, b, d
	Speaking & Listening: Comprehension 7 Collaboration – 2
	Speaking & Listening: Presentation of Knowledge & Ideas – 4
Grade 4	Writing: Text Types & Purposes – 2a, b, d, e
	Speaking & Listening: Presentation of Knowledge & Ideas – 4
Grade 5	Writing: Text Types & Purposes – 2a, b, d, e
	Speaking & Listening: Presentation of Knowledge & Ideas – 4
Grades  3-5	Writing: Production & Distribution – 4
Grades 6-8	Writing: Text Types & Purposes – 2a, b, d, f
	Writing: Production & Distribution – 4
	Speaking & Listening: Presentation of Knowledge & Ideas – 4