These indoor hydroponic kits will allow for short-term individual and small group alternative growth experiments. Students will be able to grow vegetables, herbs, and various flowers using hydroponics, while watching the root systems develop, comparing to traditional growth media, and use their knowledge of chemistry to manage the macro, micro, and trace nutrients in the hydroponic solution. This project will serve to broaden minds of students to career possibilities, biological, chemical, and biochemical principles, as well as alternative and sustainable gardening practices in agriculture.
Students will be able to use these hydroponic kits and grow media to design, conduct, and refine individualized agri-chemical experiments in class over the course of the school year. They will be able to expand their knowledge and experience with alternative and sustainable agriculture while allowing them to be creative with their experiments and not require them to follow a scripted experiment. Students will then be able to present their findings every year in the spring to community and industry partners in an "Ag Expo" format.
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These indoor hydroponic kits will allow for short-term individual and small group alternative growth experiments. Students will be able to grow vegetables, herbs, and various flowers using hydroponics, while watching the root systems develop, comparing to traditional growth media, and use their knowledge of chemistry to manage the macro, micro, and trace nutrients in the hydroponic solution. This project will serve to broaden minds of students to career possibilities, biological, chemical, and biochemical principles, as well as alternative and sustainable gardening practices in agriculture.
Students will be able to use these hydroponic kits and grow media to design, conduct, and refine individualized agri-chemical experiments in class over the course of the school year. They will be able to expand their knowledge and experience with alternative and sustainable agriculture while allowing them to be creative with their experiments and not require them to follow a scripted experiment. Students will then be able to present their findings every year in the spring to community and industry partners in an "Ag Expo" format.
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