Posted: January 19, 2023
Earn credit and learn the process of maple sugaring and how to interpret this natural history process to the general public through a fun, interactive, community-based festival — the Maple Harvest Festival (in late March).
Many of Shaver’s Creek’s public programs and festivals are designed to offer Penn State students a hands-on, for-credit experience interpreting natural and/or cultural history topics to families. Our festival course dovetails with a major festival that Shaver’s Creek hosts every year — the Maple Harvest Festival — and allows students to apply their course learning directly to a real-world event that reaches thousands of adults and children.
AEE 297 — Interpreting Maple Sugaring to Families - 2 credits; offered spring semester
Learn the process of maple sugaring and how to interpret this natural history process to the general public through an interactive, community-based festival — the Maple Harvest Festival (in late March).
This experiential course will explore how to identify and tap sugar maple trees, historical and modern methods of boiling sap into maple syrup, and interpretive methods for teaching the general public the art of maple sugaring at the Maple Harvest Festival in late March.
Class meets six Tuesday evenings beginning on February 7 and culminates with the Maple Harvest Festival on March 25 and 26, you must be able to attend one of the festival dates.
For more information or to register, contact Laurie McLaughlin at loon@psu.edu or call 814-865-4158.
You can also visit our website at shaverscreek.org/penn-state-students/credit-courses for more information.
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