Class Description
ATTENTION: THIS CLASS IS FOR STUDENTS 12 & UP.
Over the next 10 weeks we will learn the basics of maple syrup production in Michigan.
We will learn the history, agricultural, scientific, and business parts of making/producing maple syrup with a curriculum geared towards hands-on interactive learning with some reading, writing and videos added in. We will walk in the woods and learn to identify maple trees, learn the process of tapping the trees, hanging buckets or using a tubing system for collecting the sap from the trees. Collecting sap, boiling the sap down into syrup, bottling, and sales.
We will learn over the last couple of classes how we can use maple syrup in everyday baking and cooking and turning syrup into other useful ingredients and items such as: Maple Cream, Maple Sugar, and Maple Candy.
This program creates opportunities to enrich students’ STEM education with lessons about maple syrup production. This fascinating process combines knowledge of biology, chemistry, physics, forestry and agriculture to make a sticky, sweet treat. – Maple in the Classroom – experience-learning.org.
Each student will be building a maple syrup production manual. Binders and page keepers will be provided. Each week students will add information pertaining to that week’s lesson(s) into the manual and will bring them home on presentation night.
Class Requirements: Be between the ages of 12 and 18 and able to follow directions, listen and must participate in the class.
Materials Needed: Favorite writing utensils (pencils/pens). Warm clothes (coat, hat, gloves and warm pants) and boots for the days we venture into the woods. Maple sugaring is hard cold work.
Teacher: Townsend
Cost: $10.00
