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Exploring cranberries: A standards-based discovery of the social heritage, science and technology of an agricultural system.

Welcome! These interactive lesson plans will engage your students in critical thinking as they learn about cranberries and manage their own cranberry marsh. Although this is a cohesive program, it allows for maximum flexibility.  This curriculum meets Wisconsin Model Academic Standards for Science and Agriculture and Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts (CLSS-ELA).  Details can be found here.


Pick and choose lessons to use.

Overviews for Into the Marsh, Adopt a Marsh, and Challenges Await You provide a general description of each section’s lessons.