Objectives and Standards

  • Learn about maple trees and their ideal growing conditions.
  • Understand how geography and climate play a role in the maple syrup industry.
  • Describe the maple sugaring process.

SC.5.E.7.3: Recognize how air temperature, barometric pressure, humidity, wind speed and direction, and precipitation determine the weather in a particular place and time.

SC.5.E.7.5: Recognize that some of the weather-related differences, such as temperature and humidity, are found among different environments, such as swamps, deserts, and mountains.