Lessons & Resources for Educators
Download This Full Lesson: Seaweed Products and Marketing
Lesson Description: Students discover the variety of products that contain seaweed. Working in small groups, they will select a product and create a mini-commercial for that product.… view full description & alignments
Download Activity: Aquaculture Game
Activity Description: Class will read through Aquaculture for ME book together and discuss questions. General knowledge of aquaculture will be reviewed through a Jeopardy style game.… view full description & alignments
Download This Full Lesson: Water Quality Monitoring
Activity Description: Water tests are identified and conducted over time to note changes that may occur. Trends may be identified and results graphed.… view full description & alignments
Download This Full Lesson: Seaweed Habitat and Photosynthesis
Lesson Description: An Understanding of photosynthesis is acquired through discussion and watching YouTube videos. Students will engage in creating a mural of a seaweed habitat and show how a species’ anatoms.… view full description & alignments
Download This Full Lesson: Identification and Taxonomy of Seaweed
Lesson Description: Students will hone their identification skills by examining and identifying common types of seaweed found along the Maine coast. Review may be in the form of a competitive game.… view full description & alignments
Download This Full Lesson: Kelp Anatomy
Lesson Description: Through a variety of activities, students will learn the structure and function of kelp anatomy. Comparisons to plankton are made and buoyancy, density and surface area are explored.… view full description & alignments
Download This Full Lesson: Aquaculture Equipment
Lesson Description: This activity utilizes a game to identify what is needed to grow seaweed. Students will design an aquaculture rig and compare to actual rigs used in kelp farming. Students will make diorama models or work together to make a rig that will be placed in the water. Students will also begin their Seaweed Journal.… view full description & alignments
Download This Full Lesson: Introduction to Aquaculture
Lesson Description: Through class discussion, examination of resources, a game and YouTube video, students will explore aquaculture and identify areas that they would like to study in depth. Estimated time: 30 minutes… view full description & alignments
Download This Full Lesson: Investigating Potatoes
Lesson Description: Students will work in small groups and with Maine maps, find the areas of the state where potatoes are grown on a large scale. They will research the nutritional and health benefits of potatoes as well as the economic importance of potatoes to Maine. Students will interview a local farmer about his potato crop, challenges faced by potato farmers and write a news article about potatoes.… view full description & alignments
Download This Full Lesson: Lets Grow Potatoes
Lesson Description: Students will work in small groups to research the life cycle of potatoes and learn about the growing process from a local farmer. They will plant, care for, measure growth of plants and chart the growth of the classroom potatoes.… view full description & alignments
