Thursday 13 – Maple Sugar Season – learning activities to share with your children
1. Vermont Maple Syrup – Vermont AITC K-8 Standards-Based Maple Unit - a K-8 standards-based unit on “Maple Sugaring in Vermont”. This unit is divided into two sections, Grades K-4 and Grades 5-8. Every activity in each section is aligned to the Vermont Framework of Standards and corresponds with the 4-H Life Skills.
You can download the entire curriculum, free of charge, from the AITC website
2. How Maple Syrup is made in Connecticut
3. An Iroquois Legend – How Maple Syrup May Have Been Discovered
4. A Guide to Maple Tree health
5. Virtual Tours through the process of producing Maple Syrup
7. Maple Syrup production for the hobbyist
8. A unit on Maple Syrup, developed by elementary school teachers for classroom use
9. Environmental Education for Kids (EEK!) Those Marvelous Maples
10. Science project – Maple Syrup Candy
11. Another Maple Syrup Production lesson plan
12. Maple Syrup Printables – free Worksheets and Coloring pages at About.com
13. Maya’s visit to the Maple Farm
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I LOVE maple syrup in all its forms and uses!
Very cool! Thank you for all the great links, especially the curriculum ones. I’m always looking for new and interesting curriculum.
mmm. I like maple syrup. Thanks for sharing.
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well…what do you know..we are here in Canada, the maple country, I just saw an ads on the paper on where to go to see how maple syrup was made or how to get it, we are thingking of going there sometime this spring and let the boys see it.
btw, thanks for visiting my entry.
Great list. My kids love syrup so by all means, they should know where it comes from!!!
Wow, what a wealth of information!
Thanks for your comment about making home a sanctuary. I agree, though it s something I have to remind myself of when I too often get caught up in other pursuits.
Great I’m loving your website.
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