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Maple Syrup – the bear essentials!

BRACE (A hand-powered drill)

ALUMINUM OR PLASTIC SAP BUCKETS

DRILL BIT

STAINLESS STEEL SPOUT (also called SPILE)

JUG

HAMMER

What supplies do you need to make syrup?Bear knows. Do you?

Match the image with the name of the supplies needed.

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Bear makes a-maze-ing maple syrup! Bear starts with a maple tree and ends with syrup for the pancakes for Dog and Squirrel.

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15 by 12 orthogonal maze

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Answer KeyTrue: 1, 3, 5, 8, 9, 11

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It’s Sugaring Time!

1. It takes forty gallons of sap to make one gallon of maple syrup.

2. It takes forty million gallons of sap to make one gallon of maple syrup.

3. Sugaring time starts in mid-February and early March.

4. Sugaring time starts in mid-August and early September.

5. Sugaring season ends by early April when nights get warmer.

6. Sugaring season ends by early July when nights get super warm.

7. Sap comes from oak trees.

8. Sap comes from sugar maple trees.

9. Bear uses a drill, a hammer, and a bucket to get the sap from the trees.

10. Bear uses a saw, a screwdriver, and a cup to get the sap from the trees.

11. Bear uses evaporation to get the sap to turn into syrup.

12. Bear uses freezing water to get the sap to turn into syrup.

Bear is sharing some facts about making maple syrup.

Help Dog and Squirrel by circling the true fact in each pair of sentences. by Maxwell Eaton III

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