We recently attended a spring Maple Harvest Festival near our home in Pennsylvania. It was great fun, especially the part where you eat pancakes with the maple syrup on them!
So how is maple syrup made? How are trees tapped for the syrup? Then what happens?
How else can you make maple syrup? Does the syrup from trees taste better than the artificial type? (No such thing as a dumb question – that was a dumb question.)
What other foods/products do we get from trees? Create a booklet, a chart, a display… Actually make the product.
And if this project turns into an authentic project about harvesting trees for lumber and the impact on the environment, that is authentic learning.
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