new vocabulary words
Makak – An Ojibwe word meaning “container”. The plural form of the word is makakoon.
Zizibkwad - An Ojibwe word meaning sugar
Staple - A basic or necessary item of food
Sugar bush – An orchard or grove of sugar maples.
Sugaring Off - An expression used to describe the process of making sugar from boiled, strained sap
Tapping – To draw liquid sap from a sugar maple tree by placing or “tapping” carved wooden pegs, with grooves down the center, into the trees at slight downward angles.
Trough – A long, narrow, open container.
Zizibkwad - An Ojibwe word meaning sugar
Staple - A basic or necessary item of food
Sugar bush – An orchard or grove of sugar maples.
Sugaring Off - An expression used to describe the process of making sugar from boiled, strained sap
Tapping – To draw liquid sap from a sugar maple tree by placing or “tapping” carved wooden pegs, with grooves down the center, into the trees at slight downward angles.
Trough – A long, narrow, open container.
Page Jump
1 Ojibwe Children's Song
2 Essential Question
3 Learning Goal
4 Vocabulary Words
5 Maple Sugar –“Today you will learn about …”
6 Video – Honoring the Maple Sugar
7 Life in spring – When the black crows appear...
8 Sugar bush supplies & Slide show – Maple tree
9 Four Stages of Making Maple Sugar/Candy
10 Maple Sugar Quiz
11 Answers to Quiz
12 The Ojibwe and the Birch Tree
13 Gathering Birch Bark
14 The Many Uses of Birch Bark
15 Making Birch Bark Containers
16 Making Birch Bark Homes & Canoes
17 Animated Story – The Birch Tree
18 Birch Tree Story Questions
19 Spring Review
20 Essential Question Review
21 Learning Goal Review
22 Extension of Learning
1 Ojibwe Children's Song
2 Essential Question
3 Learning Goal
4 Vocabulary Words
5 Maple Sugar –“Today you will learn about …”
6 Video – Honoring the Maple Sugar
7 Life in spring – When the black crows appear...
8 Sugar bush supplies & Slide show – Maple tree
9 Four Stages of Making Maple Sugar/Candy
10 Maple Sugar Quiz
11 Answers to Quiz
12 The Ojibwe and the Birch Tree
13 Gathering Birch Bark
14 The Many Uses of Birch Bark
15 Making Birch Bark Containers
16 Making Birch Bark Homes & Canoes
17 Animated Story – The Birch Tree
18 Birch Tree Story Questions
19 Spring Review
20 Essential Question Review
21 Learning Goal Review
22 Extension of Learning