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Halvah is my favorite Middle Eastern treat...

And Easter wouldn't be the same without it!

Halvah (Middle Eastern Honey-Sesame Candy)

There are 2 kinds of halvah -- the crumbly, nut-butter based kind, and the flour-based variety. I adapted the flour-based kind for whole grain sprouted flour.

1. Warm oil in a large heavy skillet over low heat.

2. Stir until thoroughly combined.

3. Continue cooking, stirring occasionally, until the mixture begins to turn pale brown.

4. Stir until the mixture has a uniform color and consistency.

5. In a separate small saucepan, bring honey to a boil over high heat.

6. Boil for 1 minute.

7. Immediately add hot honey to flour mixture.

8. Stir until completely incorporated.

9. Spread mixture into an ungreased loaf pan and pack down with the back of a spatula.

10. Let cool at room temperature for 2 hours or until the pan feels cool.

11. It will shrink back slightly from the edges of the pan as it cools, and should therefore unmold easily when the pan is inverted.

12. Cover tightly (in or out of the loaf paand store in the refrigerator for up to 2 weeks.

13. To serve, cut into thin slices.

What are your springtime or Easter traditions? Do you make or enjoy halvah?

This post was featured in 60+ Homemade Candy Recipes.

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This read aloud can be read aloud can be read at the beginning of the unit to introduce what scientists do. It is a diverse resource because the characters in the book are of all different skin colors.

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ADA TWIST, SCIENTIST by Andrea Beaty (Storyville Kids Video #43) Read Aloud

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This book is an on-level text. Learners can read this book to learn about the contributions of Charles Henry Turner to the study of our ecosystem. Learners can then turn and talk about the different pollinators they saw in the book.

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This is a Chinese-Folktale about planting. This is diverse because it shows a story from China. This also plays on the standard that second grade learners should be able to retell fairy tales, fables and folk tales.

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The Empty Pot (Read Aloud books for children) | Chinese Folk-Tale Storytime Demi  *Miss Jill Classic

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Vanilla orchids being pollinated in Africa

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Vanilla orchids being pollinated in Africa

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This can be used to show a problem that students can design a pollinator, in order to overcome. This is diverse because it shows people from another country and their way of life.

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When introducing the engineering project, this could be read aloud in order for learners to understand what it means to engineer a device, in order to solve a problem. This is a diverse book because it shows the main character, a girl, as an engineer. The STEM field is traditionally male-heavy, so this shows girls that they, too, can be in that field.

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💪Rosie Revere, Engineer (Read Aloud books for kids) Andrea Beaty | Storytime Science

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To end the unit, we could add an art piece from a Guatemalan artist, Sofia Novella. We could learn about her art and culture and paint our own plant, and label the parts afterward. This adds diversity to the lesson because student would be learning about an artist from another country.

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What happens when there are not pollinators? In cold Greenland, animals have a hard time surviving. And oddly enough, bees are not common. So how are these flowers able to bloom? Students can work with a partner to compare pollinators in the US to Greenland. This is brining diversity to the classroom because Greenland is another country. It also has a very different climate to California. So this article would be a window to another area in the world.

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Bee Behavior

This project is named for pollinators, but we haven't talked about bees at all. How could that happen? Bees are the least common pollinators in Greenland, but they are also the most effective ones because they carry more pollen than flies or mosquitoes; they can carry thousands of grains of pollen, while the others can carry only a few. There are more than 25,000 species of bees in the world, but only two in Greenland: Bombus polaris and Bombus hyperboreus. (There are also some managed hives of honeybees further south.) These Bombus bumblebees are hairier than other bees.

Bombus polaris is similar to other bees in that each swarm has a female queen, males, and workers. The workers are similar in size to worker bees of other species, the males are smaller, and the queen is very large. These bees are commonly found on niviarsiaq and bog bean flowers because they bloom at the same time as the bees emerge. These bees can range at least 5km (more than 3 miles) foraging for food!

Bombus hyperboreus is not like other bees, however. It is a nest parasite and takes advantage of Bombus polaris. All hyperboreus bees are queens, and they are also very large just like polaris. When a hyperboreus queen finds a polaris hive, she kills the queen and drags her outside. Then she lays her eggs in the hive, causing the polaris workers to care for the new hyperboreus bees. Harsh reality!

Biomimicry

There are also flies here that look much like bees and are called botflies. When any species develops to resemble another species, usually for its own protection, this is called biomimicry. Botflies are black and yellow, so they can be mistaken for bees. Botflies are also parasites, laying their eggs in the respiratory systems (noses and throats) of caribou. This can inconvenience the caribou, or in extreme cases, it can cause the caribou to suffocate.

Today we netted both Bombus polaris and botflies on the shores of a beautiful lake!

Ackowledgement: Christine Urbanowicz is a great bee resource!

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This project is named for pollinators, but we haven't talked about bees at all. How could that happen? Bees are the least common pollinators in Greenland, but they are also the most effective ones because they carry more pollen than flies or mosquitoes; they can carry thousands of grains of pollen, while the others can carry only a few.

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I could add this link to pollinators in Hawaii so learners can learn about tropical plants that we wouldn't see as often in Orange County. This is bringing diversity to the classroom because although Hawaii is in the US, it's an island that many learners have not visited yet, so they don't know about the culture or plants in the state.

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To celebrate the learning that we've been doing about pollinators and the ecosystem, we could have a treat created by one of our favorite pollinators, the bee. Halvah is a hone-sesame candy and is brining diversity to the classroom because it is cuisine from the Middle East.

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Halvah is my favorite Middle Eastern treat...

And Easter wouldn't be the same without it!

Halvah (Middle Eastern Honey-Sesame Candy)

There are 2 kinds of halvah -- the crumbly, nut-butter based kind, and the flour-based variety. I adapted the flour-based kind for whole grain sprouted flour.

1. Warm oil in a large heavy skillet over low heat.

2. Stir until thoroughly combined.

3. Continue cooking, stirring occasionally, until the mixture begins to turn pale brown.

4. Stir until the mixture has a uniform color and consistency.

5. In a separate small saucepan, bring honey to a boil over high heat.

6. Boil for 1 minute.

7. Immediately add hot honey to flour mixture.

8. Stir until completely incorporated.

9. Spread mixture into an ungreased loaf pan and pack down with the back of a spatula.

10. Let cool at room temperature for 2 hours or until the pan feels cool.

11. It will shrink back slightly from the edges of the pan as it cools, and should therefore unmold easily when the pan is inverted.

12. Cover tightly (in or out of the loaf paand store in the refrigerator for up to 2 weeks.

13. To serve, cut into thin slices.

What are your springtime or Easter traditions? Do you make or enjoy halvah?

This post was featured in 60+ Homemade Candy Recipes.

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We could read the poem In and Out of Time by Maya Angelou. This is bringing diversity to our STEM lessons because Angelou is a renowned African American poet.

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In and Out of Time- Maya Angelou by Suus Angelus

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The sun has come. / The mist has gone. / We see in the distance... / our long way home. / I was always yours. Published at the web's largest poetry site.