BELFAST — In the third-grade classroom at Capt. Albert Stevens School, students are learning about seaweed.
“Our guiding question,” teacher Holly Merrow said, “is, ‘Why is seaweed important to our health, our world and our environment?’”
During the six-week project, third graders spoke to a member of the World Wildlife Foundation and a seaweed farmer from Springtime Seaweed in Gouldsboro, identified different types of seaweed, pressed seaweed, cooked with seaweed and grew and cared for their very own seaweed tank. Soon, they will be making seaweed lava lamps.
“We’re trying to go the whole gamut...,” Merrow said. “They’re doing everything with this: They’re reading about it, they’re doing art, they’re doing math, they’re doing science, cooking. It’s a very holistic, very in-depth kind of thing.”