Kids feeding kids through hydroponic gardening

Impact to My Classroom

# of Students Impacted: 150

With the supplies having been purchased, we are in the stages of fighting our way through irrigatiion and recirculation of the water and nutients for the plants. Currently the students are working together to trouble shoot and problem solve the irrigation and recirculation process for the project. I am trying to point them in the right direction, while allowing them to think their way through, with limited help from myself. We discuss the ideas on a daily basis, I have been able to have some very interesting, thought provoking conversations with my student, I tend to steer them in the right direction, without doing all of the thinking for them. We currently have several plants ready for transplant in our greenhouse, once the students begin to make the transplants, I will add photos of the work being completed to the classroom impact reports. I plan to not only go cross curriculum but cross classroom by having my Ag students team up with the Science students to test and maintain the nutrients in the water for our project. Once the plants are grown to harvest size, they will be donated to our Culinary students for them to use in their classroom projects.