Curriculum Guide Materials

Lessons include Content Standards and Benchmarks from the Michigan Curriculum Framework (PDF)

Introductory Materials

Welcome Letter from Executive Dir. Ken Pott

Educator's Introduction

About the Fruit Belt

What is the Fruit Belt

Further Uses of the Fruit Belt Project

 

 

Extension Projects

From the Curriculum Guide:

Share Your Story

 

 

Additional Resources and Activities

Site Tour worksheet

Role-Playing

Grades 3-5 Math Coloring Activity

Wordsearches, Crosswords, and Scrambles

Blossom Identification

Relevant Videos

Archive Tips

And More!

Historical Source Lessons

Asking Questions

Documents

Artifacts

Photographs

Oral Histories

Buildings

Maps and Charts

The Landscape

Art

Literature

Synthesize and Share

 

Historical Source Projects

From the Curriculum Guide:

Michigan Soils

Record Oral Histories

Interpret Oral Histories

Tracing Narratives with Maps

Looking at Artifacts

Looking at Buildings

Buildings from the Fruit Belt

 

New to the Web:

Looking at Photographs

 

 

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