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Kent Sloan – Clams


Lesson Plans & Curriculum
High School

A student worksheet packet on specialty animal production focused on clams and other bivalves. The “Keep Clam” page accompanies a video about Kent Sloan’s seafood SAE (clam grading and tumbling), while “Dig Into Clams” uses an FAO website to have students label the external and internal anatomy of a clam and the developmental life-cycle stages of a scallop, then answer related questions.

At a glance

Grade level
9-10
Materials
  • "Specialty Animal Production – Seafood SAE | Kent Sloan" video (https://vimeo.com/368426767)
  • FAO website "Basic Bivalve Biology: Taxonomy, Anatomy and Life History" (http://www.fao.org/3/y5720e/y5720e07.htm#bm07.1)

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Specialty Animal Production – Seafood SAE

Kent Sloan, a member of the Chiefland Senior FFA chapter in Florida, shares his experiences in the seafood industry through his family’s business, Sloan Seafood. He details his daily tasks, including processing clams and grading them for sales. Kent highlights the significance of hard work and accuracy in the industry, as well as the joy of working alongside family and friends in a unique environment.

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