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It's harvest time!
The rice has grown with the shape as you planted!
What you can learn from this activity: Help understand relationship among rice, other living-things in the rice field and human-beings through rice harvesting.
When and where to do: October in rice field.
Materials and preparations:
Prepared by participants: soft drink or water, cap or hat, shirt with long sleeves, boots, towel, inscet net, insect holding basket, pencil, magnifying lens,
Equipment by coordinator: sweet potato, rice husks, chimney made of tin tube, small desk and chair, clipboard, paperboard, leaflet, questionnaire, first aid box, trash bag, ink pens.
Procedure: 1. Learn about how you cut rice plant and hang them to dry. 2. Then you try to do it by yourself. You can do it with a machine, too. 3. Taste sweet potato baked in burned husks. 4. Watch insects and other animals living in the rice field. 6. Jot down whatever you found interesting.
Pictures of the activity (There are some addtional pictures you can enjoy in the end.) :
Let's harvest the rice! First, you use this sickle.
After cutting, you put them together, and hang them here to dry.
Now, you try it!
Cut the rice with care so that you don't cut your fingers.
You got it!
Moms helped hang the rice.
Small children also joined to the work!
You can do it with a machine!
Moms can do it, too! "Pls take a picture of me with my masterpiece!"
"Good taste!" We enjoyed sweet potato baked in rice husks.
The rice has gone. You can also make "pop rice" with the burned husk.
Boys got together at the mud buildings. At the end, we put rice on the track. Harvesting was fun!
Some more!
Cosmos flowers in Kusatani
Honey bee and plant bug on cosmos flowers
A larva of acorn weevil coming out from an acorn
Where is it going?
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