Life Science: Making Maple Syrup!!!

If you live in New England, then you know that March pretty much came in like a lamb this year. In fact, the weather seemed to switch from freezing cold to summer overnight! Of course, this means that the 2010 maple sugaring season went by in the blink of an eye! Fortunately, we managed to tap the maple tree in front of our school just in time to gather the sap while it was still running. Here are a few pictures of the process;

The raw materials...

Spline and bucket...

drilling the hole...

setting the tap...

... the first of the sap!