Enjoy early Spring’s sweetness! Learn how to identify maple trees and how they are tapped for sap. Learn different methods of making maple syrup.
Come and learn about a fabulous Canadian tradition. This popular program includes hands-on learning about the history of syrup making. Students will learn the equipment used, forest management practices and cooking procedures of this sustainable resource.
Along the trail to the sugar bush, learn how sap is produced and flows within the tree, how to identify maple trees, and how maple syrup producers tap their trees for sap. At our demonstration sites visitors will meet costumed interpreters, who will describe how they process sap into syrup.
Half Day | March to Early April
• Curriculum Connections:
• Science and Technology
• Earth and Space – Grade 1: Daily and Seasonal Changes
• Life Systems – Grade 3: Growth and Change in Plants
• Social Studies
• Heritage and Identity – Grade 1: Our Changing Roles and Responsibilities | Grade 2: Changing Family and Community Traditions | Grade 3: Communities in Canada 1780 – 1850 | Grade 5: First Nations and Europeans in New France and Early Canada | Grade 6: Communities in Canada Past and Present