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NextWaveSTEM | Hydroponics Systems: Gardening Without Soil | We Teach | Designed for learners in Grades 3-5
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Description
Course Description:
This introductory hydroponics course for grades 3-5 spans 15 lessons, introducing students to fundamental concepts. Including plant growth, germination, photosynthesis, hydroponics, pH, food sustainability, & future plant systems. Students will plant seeds in a hydroponics garden, culminating in designing a solution to a community or global problem.
We Teach Includes
- Equipment - 1 classroom set of equipment
- Curriculum - 1-Year License, 15 lesson hours + supporting materials
- Support - 1-Year ongoing product and curriculum support
- Professional development – 2 Hours of professional development with a live instructor
Specification
| LESSONS | LEARNING TARGET EXAMPLES |
| What? No Soil? Introduction | Understanding the basics of hydroponics. Why hydroponics? Identify benefits and challenges |
| Let’s Get Scientific! Plant Growth | Parts of plants, plant roles and requirements and photosynthesis overview |
| Let’s Do It: Setting Up The Hydroponics System | Necessary components, overview of the types of systems, purposes, preparation and planting. |
| Let’s Be Picky: Hydroponics Crop Selection | Which plants? Comparing, germination vs direct planting |
| Taking Care: Monitoring Plants | Monitoring the Hydroponics system |
| Don’t Be A Pest: Insects | Pesky, Pesty Bugs. Identify, Benefits & Solutions |
| The Circle Of Life: Plant Cycle | Life Cycle and stages of plants + reproduction |
| Water Is Life: The Role of Water | Learn more about water, climate change & roots: The water carriers in plants—purposes, functions |
| Be A Scientists: Test Variables | Threats to photosynthesis and plants |
| Farm To Table: Issues & Harvesting | How to harvest crops and solutions to hunger |
| Are There More? Exploration | Design a hydroponics system to solve a problem |
| Out Of This World | Hydroponics system for a space station—for infinity and beyond! |
| What’s The Buzz? | How aeroponics and aquaponics work, advantages and disadvantages. Floating Gardens |
| Helping the Environment | Advantages of plants and trees for the environment and the world |
| The Future of Hydroponics | What the future holds in hydroponics using Technology and AI |
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