Sugarbush Animal Classification Name _________________

Maple producers have many animal friends who live in the sugarbush. Help them classify each animal on the list.

Amphibians and Reptiles Birds Mammals

Sugarbush animals Turtle Squirrel Wood Pecker Rabbit Deer Chipmunk Turkey Peeper Frog Fox Salamander Snake Grouse Owl Hawk

1. _________ 2. _________ 3. _________ 4. _________ 5. _________

1. _________ 2. _________ 3. _________ 4. _________ 5. _________

1. _________ 2. _________ 3. _________ 4. _________ 5. _________

A maple tubing system is made up of several parts. At the tree is the spout, it is placed in the tap hole and connected to the drop line. Several drop lines will connect to the lateral line and several lateral lines will connect into the main line which delivers the sap to the sugarhouse or holding tank.

Maple Math – Adding spouts on tubing Name _______________

Main line

Drop line

Spout

Line #1 4 +Line #2 5 1st Total __

Line #3 5 +Line #4 3 2nd Total ___

How many spouts are on mainline? Add 1st total ____ and 2nd total ____ = ____ spouts If each tap hole yielded 20 gallons of sap during the sap season, this mainline would carry a total of 340 gallons of sap, enough to make 8 gallons of maple syrup

Maple Words - Cross Word Puzzle

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1. I have fun when I

3. What I say when I meet someone __

4. When I get maple candy I take a __

5. I like to run ___ in a sugarhouse

8. When it rains the trees get_

10. You collect sap in a sugar __

11. Boiling syrup is very_

12. The trunk of the tree is

13. I eat maple ice cream with a __

16. A spout or __ is placed into the tap hole

17. Sap comes from a __

19. Pancakes with syrup I eat with a __

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2. Sap is made up mostly of __

6. Maple cream tastes so very __

7. When the maple season starts, the woods are

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9. Making maple syrup is hard work not __

14. You can collect sap with a __

15. Sap comes out of the tap __

17. Sap is stored in a big __

18. The sun makes a maple tree __

20. Maple syrup is great to_

Word Bank

Easy, Water, Hello,

Horses, Tank, Pail, Play,

Fork, Spile, Good, Snow,

Bite, Bush, Round, Hot,

Grow, Hole, Tree, Spoon,

Wet, Eat, Around

Maple Words Name ____ _

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as you find them in the puzzle.

Maple Trees Spoon Farm Cake Sugarhouse Old Money Hike Ate Steam Cotton Jug Pan Cook Snack Green Eat

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Name ________________ Maple Production in History – Boiling Sap

In the 1700s and 1800s maple sap was usually boiled outside in large cast iron kettles hung over a wood fire. The whole family would be involved in collecting firewood and gathering sap. Usually the sap was boiled to make granulated maple sugar rather than the maple syrup common today.

Questions from the story and picture 1. Boiling sap takes a lot of heat, the fuel used to boil sap was ________.2. Instead of making maple syrup from sap the early settlers made the sap into

________.3. The sap was usually boiled in large kettles made of cast _______.4. Today maple sap is usually boiled in a sugar house, back then it was boiled _________.

Name ________________ Maple Production in History – Gathering Sap

buckets full of sap were carried to the boiling kettles. At times a yoke was used to make the trip easier. If the sugar maples were too far away, sap was poured into a gathering tank that was mounted on a sled pulled by horses or oxen.

Questions from the story and picture 1. As the sap came from the tree it was collected in ________ buckets. 2. A sled mounted with a gathering tank would be pulled by horses or _________. 3. A maple producer could carry buckets of sap more easily if they used a ________. 4. If the sugar maples were not too far away the _____ would be carried by hand in

buckets to the boiling kettles.

In the 1700s and 1800s maple sap was collected in wooden buckets. Gathering the sap was done by hand where the

Map,le S1pellling Words

Sa1y the word Wiriite the ·word Use the wo,rd

1. Maple

2. Sr:mon

3. Stearn

4. Tree

5. Green

6. Hike

7. fog

8. Deer

9. Sarr}

lOi. Leaf

11. Drilll 12. Pan

13. Sugar

14. Snow

15. Bush

I love ma1plle syrup on pancakes,.

I us,e a spo,on to put mafJle syru�J on my ice cream.

When rnap ,e syrup is ,cooking it makes a lot of s,team.

Maple syrup is made from sap that comes from the maplle tr,ee,.

A sug;ar maple tree has gire,en eaves i'n the sprirng and summ,er.

It is great fun to hike through the sugarbush to watch sap n.rnning.

Maple syrup is oft,en sold i'n a brown plastic jug,.

Deer are a very common sight in the maple sugar bush.

It takes about 40 gallons of sap to make one galllon of syrup,. A sugar maple lle,a1f wi'II usuallly turn yelllow or orange in the fall.

A power drilll is used to make the tap hole about 2 inches de,ep.

Sar, is boi lied i 11 a syrup pan calle,rl arn evaporator.

Maple sap is usually about 2% sugar, maple syrup is about 67%. Sn,ow helps ke,ep the sugar bush ieooll duri'ng the maple season.

A sugar bush i's a for,est with maple trees used to make maple syrup.

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Maple Weather – When will the sap run? Name _________________

Maple sap will flow from a taphole any time the temperature drops below freezing then warms up to above freezing again. Based on the high and low temperatures listed for each day, cross out the days when the sap did not run. To run the low temperature must be less than 32º F and the high above 32º F.

Low 28º F

High 30º F

Low 27º F

High 36º F

Low 23º F

High 31º F

Low 29º F

High 39º F

Low 18º F

High 30º F

Low 39º F

High 60º F

Low 38º F

High 41º F

Low 34º F

High 50º F

Low 48º F

High 74º F

Low 28º F

High 58º F

Low 35º F

High 57º F

Low 51º F

High 71º F

Low 28º F

High 31º F

Low 38º F

High 50º F

Low 41º F

High 49º F

Low 41º F

High 68º F

Low 30º F

High 44º F

Low 31º F

High 40º F

Low 37º F

High 52º F

Low 44º F

High 49º F

Low 22º F

High 31º F

Low 28º F

High 45º F

Low 42º F

High 50º F

Low 31º F

High 39º F

Low 31º F

High 50º F

Low 55º F

High 61º F

Low 33º F

High 38º F

Low 35º F

High 56º F

Low 38º F

High 57º F

Low 45º F

High 53º F

How many days did the sap run? _____

Name ________________ Maple Words

Unscramble the words below shown in bold above then use The second column to put them in alphabetical order.

Each spring a hole, called a tap, is drilled in a maple tree. When it warms up after a freeze, sap will run out of the hole into a pail or a tube to be collected for making maple syrup. Sap has some sugar in it but it is not very sweet.

1. Meso ______2. Ton _____3. Etbu _____4. Ringps _______5. Lohe _____6. Rete _____7. Nur ____8. Rugas ______9. Apil _____10. Pat ____11. Pas ____12. Ewtes ______13. Rysup ______14. Mepal ______15. Swarm ______

1. ______2. ______3. ______4. ______5. ______6. ______7. ______8. ______9. ______10. ______11. ______12. ______13. ______14. ______15. ______