The St. Lawrence
Lowland: Natural Resources 
Here are some Web sites to help you with your
research.
Maple Syrup: The Thousand Year-Old Recipe
Web Links
Minerals
and Metals
Asbestos is an important mineral in the St. Lawrence
Lowland. This site will help you find out more about asbestos and other
minerals in the region. Click on the mineral from the list to get a description
and picture. There are also links to other sources of information about
minerals in Canada.
Maple
Syrup
Maple trees, maple syrup, maple sugar-these are
important resources in the St. Lawrence Lowland. This site looks at the1000-Year-Old
recipe for one of Canada's most famous products. You can learn about the
traditional way of making maple syrup used by Aboriginal peoples. There
are good descriptions and pictures as well.
Web Activity
Maple
Syrup: The Thousand-Year-Old Recipe
Using
this Web site from the Collections
of the Museum of Civilization, complete this worksheet to learn about
the age-old recipe for making maple syrup.
Read
the information and answer the following questions. Click here
to download a worksheet on which to record your answers.
- Define
the term recipe .
- Why
is this called the "Thousand-Year-Old Recipe"?
- What
two trees produce the best sap for making maple syrup?
- Why
do other maple trees not produce good sap?
- What two main products come
from sap?
- What
did Europeans use as a sweetener before maple syrup?
- Explain
the following terms:
maple
moon month
sugaring
off period
sweet
water
- Why
is maple syrup an expensive product?
- Complete
a chart to compare First Nations, early European, and present-day methods
of collecting, carrying, and boiling sap to make maple syrup.
Web
Site Evaluation
When
you have finished your work, evaluate the Web site by completing the appropriate
statements in parts A and B.
Part
A
•
I liked this Web site because.
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I did not like this Web site because.
Part
B
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I found this Web site easy to use because.
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I found this Web site hard to use because.
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