This Activity is both an integration and culmination of Activities 8-10, i.e., where students participate in a 'cottage industry' to make hands-on products: aromatherapy playdough, crystal chakra slime, and healing medicinal teas.  Students will also learn entrepreneureal skills, such as creating, packaging, advertising, and selling in order to earn money to start a READ program (Reading Equine Art Duo) in their local community.
 
Contents in order of use: 
1. Activity 11 Pre-assessment
2. Activity 11 Cottage kitchen (Products) 
3. Activity 11 Cottage kitchen (products) For PEEPs Sake product idea
4. Activity 11 Cottage kitchen (products) Crystal Chakra Slime product idea
5. Dried Medicinal Plants for Horses 
6. Activity 11 Plant Identification for Product (Example)
7. Activity 11 Plant Identification for Product (Student) 
8. Activity 11 Nyol's Poem (look at as an example for what students can do if they choose to write a poem).  
9. Activity 11 Post-assessment
10. Rating 
 
Subject domains: 
Writing (Text Types and Purposes): Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective techniques, descriptive details, and clear event sequences.  
Speaking and Listening (Comprehension and Collaboration): Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussion (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 3, 4, and 5 topics and texts, building on others' ideas and expressing their own clearly.  
Math (Number & Operations-Fractions): Understand a fraction 1/b as the quantity by 1 part when a whole is partitioned into b equal parts: understand a fraction a/b as the quantity formed by a parts of size 1/b.  
 
Skills: 
Students learn how to integrate Activitites 8-10 into a cottage industry, i.e., making products to: (1) soothe their emotions with aromatherapy playdough; (2) balancing their chakras with crystal chakra slime; and (3) making healing medicinal teas for horses.  
Students learn how to make the products, design labels, advertise them, and sell them.  The money earned will be used to start a READ program (Reading Equine Art Duo) in students' local community.  
Students will learn fractions in a hands-on meaningful way as they follow the recipes for making playdough, slime, and teas.  
Students learn about essential oils and how they come from plants (leaves and flowers).  
Students learn about the therapeutic effects of essential oils.  
Students explore the READ program: www.readhorseprogram.com 
Students understand how playdough scented with essential oils (aromatherapy) might help a struggling reader if they squeeze it during a reading session.  
Students understand how slime scented with essential oils that are aligned with a particular chakra field can help balance a student's chakra(s) during a reading session.  
Students write narratives and/or poems about their experiences with these products and sharing them with horses.