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Preserving the Harvest: Dry it Out! Lesson PlanPreserving the Harvest: Dry it Out! Lesson Plan
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Preserving the Harvest: Dry it Out!

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Students explore how people preserved their food in the past. In food preservation lesson, students create different models that enable someone to dry out food, such as a food dehydrator. Students also learn how to prepare different foods to be dried out. 

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Grade
3rd - 6th
Subjects
Health
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Resource Type
Lesson Plans
Audience
For Teacher Use
Duration
14 days
Instructional Strategy
Project-Based Learning

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