Maple Syrup
Do you enjoy eating pancakes with sweet and sticky maple syrup on a cold winter morning? Who doesn't!
Do you enjoy eating pancakes with sweet and sticky maple syrup on a cold winter morning? Who doesn't!
Have you ever thought about where the maple syrup comes from or how it is made? To answer this question, we need to think about plants and how they almost miraculously use sunlight to fuel their growth.
Have you ever thought about where the maple syrup comes from or how it is made? To answer this question, we need to think about plants and how they almost miraculously use sunlight to fuel their growth.
While you and I need to consume food (such as pancakes and maple syrup) for energy, plants use a process, called PHOTOSYNTHESIS to make sugars from sunlight, water, and air (carbon dioxide)! These sugars help plants grow and produce energy.
While you and I need to consume food (such as pancakes and maple syrup) for energy, plants use a process, called PHOTOSYNTHESIS to make sugars from sunlight, water, and air (carbon dioxide)! These sugars help plants grow and produce energy.
Some plants, such as potatoes and maple trees, store their sugars for later use. Potatoes store sugars as starch in the potato tubers to fuel future plant growth. Maple trees store sugars in their sap during the winter so that the plant can grow leaves in spring. Every year maple syrup farmers harvest this sap and transform it into maple syrup. See below for information about photosynthesis and watch a video about how maple syrup is made!
Some plants, such as potatoes and maple trees, store their sugars for later use. Potatoes store sugars as starch in the potato tubers to fuel future plant growth. Maple trees store sugars in their sap during the winter so that the plant can grow leaves in spring. Every year maple syrup farmers harvest this sap and transform it into maple syrup. See below for information about photosynthesis and watch a video about how maple syrup is made!
What is PHOTOSYNTHESIS?
What is PHOTOSYNTHESIS?
Plants use sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide from the air to make sugars!
Plants use sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide from the air to make sugars!
How do plants make sugars from sun? PHOTOSYNTHESIS!!!
How do plants make sugars from sun? PHOTOSYNTHESIS!!!
Say "Photosynthesis" three times out loud!
Say "Photosynthesis" three times out loud!
Watch the video below to learn about how we harvest the sugar water (sap) from the sugar maple tree and transform it into thick and delicious maple syrup!
Watch the video below to learn about how we harvest the sugar water (sap) from the sugar maple tree and transform it into thick and delicious maple syrup!
Maple Syrup Book 1-10.mp4Maple Syrup Season
Maple Syrup Season
Ms. Sheryl reads Maple Syrup Season by Ann Purmell.
Ms. Sheryl reads Maple Syrup Season by Ann Purmell.
"Plink! Plunk! As the first drops of maple sap hit the bcket, the Brockwell family cheers and claps. It's the official start of maple srup season. Tappint the trees is a lot of work. But after all the gathering, transporting, bubbling, and boiling, there will be a sweet and scrumptious treat." - Maple Syrup Season by Ann Purmell, Illustrated by Jill Weber
"Plink! Plunk! As the first drops of maple sap hit the bcket, the Brockwell family cheers and claps. It's the official start of maple srup season. Tappint the trees is a lot of work. But after all the gathering, transporting, bubbling, and boiling, there will be a sweet and scrumptious treat." - Maple Syrup Season by Ann Purmell, Illustrated by Jill Weber
Collecting sap from the maple tree.
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Sap in a boiler. The person is measuring the thickness of the sap using a HYDROMETER to see if it is thick enough to sell as maple syrup.
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Maple syrup is delicious over pancakes!
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Concentrated maple syrup poured over ice becomes thick and chewy.
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