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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The Potato – A brief history of an incredible tuber

MA CURRICULUM FRAMEWORKS 6.T5.b,c OBJECTIVE Understand the history of potato cultivation. Understand the significance of the potato as a food source as well as for biocultural heritage. Understand the potato as a product of thousands of years of cultivation by indigenous peoples. ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS What is the significance of the potato to human history? How […]

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Planting a Sensory Garden

OBJECTIVE Students will learn about each of the five senses and connect them to something in the garden ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS Which senses do we use in the garden? MATERIALS NEEDED A plant/seeds for each sense, hand rakes, trowels, bagged compost (optional), laminated copy of the 5 senses scavenger hunt worksheet to use as a reminder […]

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Plant Reproduction

MA CURRICULUM FRAMEWORKS 8.MS-LS3-1 8.MS-LS3-2 OBJECTIVE To observe sexual and asexual plant reproduction by saving seeds (sexual) and cloning succulents (asexual) ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS How do plants reproduce sexually?How do plants reproduce asexually?How can humans intervene in plant reproduction to manipulate plant genetics? MATERIALS NEEDED Asexual reproduction:Succulent plants / geraniums / begonias or cuttings donated from […]

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Overfishing

MA CURRICULUM FRAMEWORKS 5-ESS3-1 7.MS-LS2-5 OBJECTIVE Students will understand what overfishing is, how it happens, its impact on the environment, and how to fix or avoid it. ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS What is the human impact on wild fish populations? How do we ‘farm’ fish? MATERIALS NEEDED Bowls, cups, sets of chopsticks, tape, forks, large spoons, a […]

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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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