Maple Syrup Field Trips

kindergarteners tour sugar shack

Students of all ages will invoke all their senses while learning about an important Minnesota tradition.

Field trips typically include the following activities:
  • Tapping Demonstrations
  • Sap Collecting
  • Winter Tree Identification
  • Why Sap Flows
  • History of Syruping
  • Tour of Maple Sugar Shack

The Minnesota DNR's publication, Minnesota Conservation Volunteer, has a Young Naturalist section on maple syruping. Read the article and view the teacher's guide to using it in the classroom. The information is a great pre or post activity surrounding a field trip to the Saint John's Arboretum Sugar Shack!