Seaweed is a very interesting thing to talk to your students about. Many of your students may not know that many people eat this around the world. Here are some great activities to incorporate into your lesson plans all about seaweed.
A great activity about seaweed is to have your students make sushi. Purchase some seaweed at the grocery store along with some cream cheese and some sort of meat. Then show your students how to make seaweed. Show them how you place all the ingredients on the seaweed and then using a mat you roll it up into a log. Then you slice it into pieces. When you are all done making the sushi have your students try it by giving them each a piece. Then they can go home saying they tried seaweed!
Another great idea is to have your students make tissue paper seaweed. Give them some different colored tissue paper to draw seaweed on. Then they can decorate it and then cut it out. Next you can have your students place it in your classroom on a counter or you can have them hang it from your ceiling. Let them be creative in where they hang it. It will make your classroom look really cool once they are finished finding a place to put it.
Another great idea is to do a seaweed collage. Have your students look through magazines to find things that live in the sea. Then have them cut it out and place it one a huge sheet of white butcher paper. Then give them colored pencils, crayons, or markers to draw seaweed and other cool things on the huge collage. Have them look in many different magazines to get lots of cool things out of them that they can glue onto the collage. They can even use the magazines as references to draw things on the collage if they prefer that rather that gluing and pasting magazine pictures onto the collage. When they are all finished making their seaweed collage hang it up as decoration in your classroom.
By incorporating these activities into your lesson plans your students will have lots of fun. They will learn a lot about seaweed while making cool crafts and tasting seaweed. So the next time you have a unit on seaweed or just a day on seaweed try out some of these great activities in your classroom.