Exploring Wool

OBJECTIVE Students will understand that wool comes from sheep and will appreciate farmers and the products they create for our community ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS Where does wool come from? How can we make wool into something that we can use? What do we use wool for? MATERIALS NEEDED Under specific activity PROCEDURE Washing Wool Materials: Raw […]

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Colonial America- Grains /Oats

OBJECTIVE To discover how New England colonists survived with limited means through bartering, hard agricultural work, and reliance on crops like hulless peelcorn oats. ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS What role did oats play in colonial history? How does food build community? MATERIALS NEEDED Pre-made Porridge (oats, molasses, water/milk, cinnamon stick), crock-pot, bowls and spoons, oat seeds, seed […]

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Colonial America- Harvest Season

MA CURRICULUM FRAMEWORKS 3.3 Identify who the Pilgrims were and explain why they left Europe to seek religious freedom; describe their journey and their early years in the Plymouth Colony. (H, G, C, E) OBJECTIVE Students will be able to identify the different types of food the the colonists ate and rhe reasons why these […]

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Stone Soup

OBJECTIVE Students will connect the story of Stone Soup to their own school garden or local farm, and will explore the process of harvest to eating. ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS Where does food come from? What is hunger?Why is sharing important? MATERIALS NEEDED Stone Soup book Stone soup recipe Large stock/soup pot Stone Wooden spoonHarvest basketVegetables (preferably […]

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Squash Taste Test

OBJECTIVE To bring ourselves back to a time without grocery stores and experience the difference in taste between varieties of a crop that grows in our region. ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS What and how did the Native peoples of America eat?What does it mean to have many varieties of the same crop? MATERIALS NEEDED 4 types of […]

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Origins of Corn

MA CURRICULUM FRAMEWORKS 5-ESS3-1 5-LS1-1 5-LS2-1 OBJECTIVE To discuss human impact on the environment through corn from colonization to today ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS How has modern corn come to be? How do humans impact our environment? How does our environment impact us? MATERIALS NEEDED Seed catalogsIndian corn or any dried corn on husk Dried wheat For […]

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