This algae is harvested along the western coast of the United States and in parts of Asia. To extract the agar the Algae is boiled, cooled, purified and then dried. The agar is then make into blocks, flakes, or granules.
As the English, French, and Spanish explorers came to North America, they brought tremendous changes to American Indian tribes. Europeans carried a hidden enemy to the Indians: new diseases. Native peoples of America had no immunity to the diseases that European explorers and colonists brought with them. Diseases such as smallpox, influenza, measles, and even chicken pox proved deadly to American Indians. Europeans were used to these diseases, but Indian people had no resistance to them. Sometimes the illnesses spread through direct contact with colonists.
Field Test Edition Summer 2008 61 L ESSON P LANS Ice age and Americaâs Early Peoples Nonfiction Reading Lesson Plan Unit of StudyâEarly Encounters: Native Americans and Explorers The Teaching Points: â¢ New York was rich in resources in its early history. â¢ Native Americans were the first people to inhabit New York.ach group will represent one of the major European countries of exploration: England, Spain, France, Portuguese and Dutch. The groups will research and trace on a world map, the routes of exploration of the major explorers from the country and their points of contact with native peoples.