Berkshire Museum
The Three Life-Giving Sisters: Plant Cultivation and Mohican Innovation
Children gain first-hand experience with Native American agriculture while investigating the life cycle of plants with this engaging experiment. Focusing on what the natives called the Three Sisters - corn, beans, and squash - young...
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Seeds, Miraculous Seed
Students investigate relationships between plants and animals and how living things change during their lives. For this life cycle lesson, students split different types of seeds apart to see the beginning life stages of future plants.
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NATIVE AMERICANS
Young scholars study the importance of nature to Native Americans and discover the growth stages of Northern beans and mustard seeds.
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People-Growing and Changing
Second graders study how people grow and change. In this health lesson, 2nd graders describe how they have changed over the years and guess who each student is after looking at everyone's baby pictures.
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Seed Saving
After a discussion of the factors that affect seed germination, class groups harvest and preserve seeds from the school garden.