Tuesday, March 11, 2025

Algae Academy

We are very excited to be participating in Algae Academy, a STEM program funded by the Department of Energy which provides a FREE curriculum including scientific equipment and live algae for students to work with!

I'm not used to a curriculum that includes videos but I think it's important that we follow it as written, since we are required to give our honest feedback at the conclusion of the program. To help me keep track of all the links -- I'm doing the Elementary lesson plans for most of my class and the Middle School lesson plans for my oldest student -- I'm going to put them here! Feel free to watch them to see what your children are doing each day!


Algae Fun Facts (PDF)



Tue Mar 11 - Algae Delivery and Setup Instructions



Mon Mar 17 - DAY ONE
Introduction to Algae



Tue Mar 18 - DAY TWO
Setting up your algae culture and sampling



Wed Mar 19 - DAY THREE
Looking at algae under the microscope and dichotomous key activity

    Elementary
    do alongside Middle School student but use worksheet pp.11-13



    Middle School
    slides 47-64, worksheet pp.6-9

    Glowing Beaches (3:01)

    The mystery surrounding glacier ice worms (2:17)


    have middle school student help prepare wet mounts in advance

      Spirulina platensis

      Isochrysis galbana

      Micrasterias radiata

      Nannochloropsis (the algae we are growing)



Thu Mar 20 - DAY FOUR
Sampling algae culture and measuring for growth



Mon Mar 24 - DAY FIVE
Data Nugget

    have everyone work together

    read p.12 of Middle School packet

    do pp.16-17 of Elementary packet



Tue Mar 25 & Wed Mar 26 - DAY SIX
Design Challenge



Thu Mar 27 - FIELD TRIP (AM) & PRESENTATIONS (PM)



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