Students learn about common foods, such as cheese, peanut butter, and frozen desserts, and household items that contain ocean seaweed.
Students demonstrate that, although we sometimes can neither smell nor taste them, many ingredients in our foods and household products come from the sea. Students investigate the foods people eat to determine what algae derivatives they contain.
algae, seaweed, food, house, nutrition, ingredients
Materials Needed[shopmaterials]a collection of food items containing algae derivatives; copies of the take-home page (included in the lesson); pencils or pens; samples of brown, red, and green algae (optional)
Link to the lesson plan.
Assessment is included with the lesson.
Lesson Plan Source
Beth Nalker and Doug Casey