On a Thursday in February, Judith Gratz and her fabulous volunteers from the Wissahickon Valley Watershed Association came to Oak Lane to teach students about maple sugar. What a perfect day for this event! Through the creation of four different stations, children learned and participated in the maple sugar process. At one station they saw a maple tree tapped for sap. At a second station they practiced boring through the bark of a log into the sapwood. At a third station they learned the five layers of a tree leaf, and explored tree cookies to see the tubes that allow sap to flow in the tree, and at a fourth station they saw how sap is cooked so that the water evaporates, leaving behind maple sugar. And, they each got to taste maple sugar on a waffle!
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