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Edible and Poisonous Bush Berries

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Yupiit School District

3

Science

Edible and Poisonous Bush Berries

Grade

Subject

Unit Title

Students will be able to identify edible and poisonous bush berries.

1 week

One-Sentence Summary

Time to Complete

Standard
A. A student should understand scientific facts, concepts, principles, and theories.

Detailed Description
Procedures: Names of bush berries in English and Yup'ik.
The students will learn the names of local berries that grow along the Kuskokwim area.
BERRIES: mercuullugpiit---high bush cranberries puyuraat---low or high bush raspberries
acsaanglluut---gooseberries tuutaruat---rosehips
Help students to identify the poisonous plants which grow in their area. The berries that are listed above are edible, they can be eaten raw, cooked, mashed, jelled or made into akutaq.
tulukaruut neqait---baneberries; Baneberries can be red or white, as few as two berries can kill a child.

Activities: Field trips, collect leaves, pick berries, make akutaq, jam, jellies, press plants, laminate, label and made into books, find the medicinal uses.

Task Management Skill
Resources: Identifies, organizes, plans, and allocates resources

Vocabulary

napat---trees
qaltaq---bucket
avayat---branches
piicikaq---birch basket
qisran---calyx of cloudberry
iiqupiit---seeds
cuyat---leaves
tuqunarqellriit---poisonous
epua---stem
caranglluut---debris
naunraq---plant
nernarqellriit---edible
acilqut---roots
assigtaq---container
canget---grass
carilqaq---meadow
iqvarte*---picking berries
qukartuq---half full
naive*---pour bucket to container
acsat---berries
muirtuq---filled up
unaite*---soft
tegge*---hard
puyura'ar'- raspberry
tuutaruaq- rose hip
mercuullugpak- high bush berries
agautaq- red currant
atsaanglluk- black currant
napat- trees
can'get- grass
*base of a word

EFG
Primary Domain

Detailed Description
Procedures: Names of bush berries in English and Yup'ik.
The students will learn the names of local berries that grow along the Kuskokwim area.
BERRIES: mercuullugpiit---high bush cranberries puyuraat---low or high bush raspberries
acsaanglluut---gooseberries tuutaruat---rosehips
Help students to identify the poisonous plants which grow in their area. The berries that are listed above are edible, they can be eaten raw, cooked, mashed, jelled or made into akutaq.
tulukaruut neqait---baneberries; Baneberries can be red or white, as few as two berries can kill a child.

Activities: Field trips, collect leaves, pick berries, make akutaq, jam, jellies, press plants, laminate, label and made into books, find the medicinal uses.

Domain Outcomes

P1. Read to Understand
Core Skills: reading, information acquisition and management, annalytical thinking

P2. Complete a Mathematical Analysis
Core skills: analytical thinking, mathematics, relational thinking

P3. Create a Map, Graph, or Chart

P4. Demonstrate Competency in World Languages

P5. Action research project with a team approach:

P6. Utilize one form of technology:

P7. Develop Creative Expression:

P8. Write a report:

P9. Make an Oral Presentation:

Partnerships

Career Investigations

Community Service Options:

Internet Questions:

Grade3

SubjectScience

Date Created10/20/1996

Unit TitleEdible and Poisonous Bush Berries

Date Modified3/24/2000

Time to Complete1 week

Cultural ConceptStudent will identify the berries, where they grow, and when they are picked and to learn and identify the plants that are edible or poisonous.

Outcome Area
Hunting/Gathering

State Standard
A. A student should understand scientific facts, concepts, principles, and theories.

District Outcome 1:
Understand plants and their processess.

District Outcome 2:

Detailed Description:
Procedures: Names of bush berries in English and Yup'ik.
The students will learn the names of local berries that grow along the Kuskokwim area.
BERRIES: mercuullugpiit---high bush cranberries puyuraat---low or high bush raspberries
acsaanglluut---gooseberries tuutaruat---rosehips
Help students to identify the poisonous plants which grow in their area. The berries that are listed above are edible, they can be eaten raw, cooked, mashed, jelled or made into akutaq.
tulukaruut neqait---baneberries; Baneberries can be red or white, as few as two berries can kill a child.

Activities: Field trips, collect leaves, pick berries, make akutaq, jam, jellies, press plants, laminate, label and made into books, find the medicinal uses.

Specific Grading Critieria:
> The student will know the names of edible bush berries in Yup'ik or English.
> Students will tell when and where the berries grow and when they are generally picked.
> The students will learn many uses of the plants and the poisonous plants that are fatal.

General Grading Critieria:
> Format and organization

SCAN Skill
Resources: Identifies, organizes, plans, and allocates resources

Resources
Resource people can be invited to the classrooms to talk about the plants they use for medicine, or pick to eat or preserve for winter use.
Parents, community, library for video's and books.
Materials: Plant book, Yup'ik dictionary, pencils, papers, color crayons, or points, and bush berry pictures.

Specific Grading Critieria> The student will know the names of edible bush berries in Yup'ik or English.
> Students will tell when and where the berries grow and when they are generally picked.
> The students will learn many uses of the plants and the poisonous plants that are fatal.

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