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Tutorial Schedule today
1. Reflection and debrief from Tuesday's guest speaker Camille Lewis on Modern Agriculture & the Environment
-Answer the following questions in your notebook: (~10 minutes of independent writing, more if needed)
Heading: Guest Speaker - Modern Agriculture & Environment
1. Name (at least) three new things you learned about modern agriculture and the environment.
2. What surprised you the most?
3. Is there anything you might do differently in your personal life after learning more about this topic?
4. What Environmental Science topics were discussed
during the presentation? (there were many!)
5. What's your opinion of 'clean meat' or 'cell based meat'? Would you try it? Why or why not?
(If you were not in class for the guest speaker, use your current knowledge about agriculture and the environment to answer the questions to the best of your ability; or you can also look at my NOTES from the presentation to help you)
-Here are your 'Gots' and 'Needs' feedback from the speaker: (read over together out loud)
'Got' (what you learned)
-8 million land animals are killed per hour for food
-I was able to connect what I know about farming with personal experiences and gain some perspective
-plant based diets are better for the environment
-Goal of modern agriculture is to produce more animals,
in the least amount of space, as quickly as possible
-180,000 hens in each chicken shed (even organic!)
-The poop problem: animals produce 335 million tons of
waste
-Feedlot lagoons collect waste and pollute surrounding land
-Eating a lb of beef vs showering daily for 3 months: the
production of beef uses more water
-Takes 100 gallons of water to produce 1 lb of corn, 750 to produce 1 gallon of milk, 2500 gallons of water to produce
1 lb of beef
-Amount of water needed to produce common foods:
736 almonds/year (2 lbs) - 736 gallons of water/yr
736 almonds/year (2 lbs) - 736 gallons of water/yr
245 eggs/yr - 12,985 gallons of water /yr
144 burgers/yr - 104,000 gallons of water/yr
'Need' (question/something you're wondering about)
-Do scientists consider the clean meat to be ethical?
-Are there risks associated with eating clean meat?
-Out of the 8 million animals killed hourly, how much
meat is actually produced and can be consumed?
-How can we better manage the waste from animals
raised for food?
-Why is it legal to use misleading terms like 'cage free'
'free range,' etc. if it's not true?
-What impact could we have just by not eating meat?
-How much land and water could we save by choosing
more plant-based foods?
-Would my family consider doing 'Meatless Mondays'?
-Would my family consider doing 'Meatless Mondays'?
Heading: Introduction to Aquaponics (in notebook)
Learning Objective: I can define aquaponics, describe how this system is set up, and describe its benefits.
Watch Intro video HERE (2:30 mins; just watch, no notes)
Answer the following questions in your notebook using the website "Aquaponics.com" as a reference: (use personal electronics or laptops if available)
Aquaponics Intro Questions
1. What is aquaponics?
2. Describe how it is typically set up
3. What are five benefits?
4. What kinds of food can you grow with aquaponics?
5. Why is aquaponics considered 'sustainable'?
Watch 27 minute video (HERE) as a class and answer questions on Franklin HS teacher Anne McHugh's students' research with NASA: "One Step Closer to Mars with Aquaponics: Cultivating Citizen Science in K12 Schools"
Student Aquaponics Research
1. What was their essential question?
2. Why was NASA involved in this student research?
3. What were some of the independent variables tested?
4. Why did they choose peas, basil, & tomatoes?
5. What type of fish did they use and why?
6. Why is a nitrifying component essential to an
aquaponics system?
7. What components of the system were measured over
the 10 week time period?
8. What types of microbes did the students find in their
tanks?
All three sets of questions from today will be stamped as a homework titled 26."Guest Speaker Debrief & Aquaponics Intro"; I will check on Monday 2/4
Learning Objective: I can define aquaponics, describe how this system is set up, and describe its benefits.
Watch Intro video HERE (2:30 mins; just watch, no notes)
Answer the following questions in your notebook using the website "Aquaponics.com" as a reference: (use personal electronics or laptops if available)
Aquaponics Intro Questions
1. What is aquaponics?
2. Describe how it is typically set up
3. What are five benefits?
4. What kinds of food can you grow with aquaponics?
5. Why is aquaponics considered 'sustainable'?
Watch 27 minute video (HERE) as a class and answer questions on Franklin HS teacher Anne McHugh's students' research with NASA: "One Step Closer to Mars with Aquaponics: Cultivating Citizen Science in K12 Schools"
Student Aquaponics Research
1. What was their essential question?
2. Why was NASA involved in this student research?
3. What were some of the independent variables tested?
4. Why did they choose peas, basil, & tomatoes?
5. What type of fish did they use and why?
6. Why is a nitrifying component essential to an
aquaponics system?
7. What components of the system were measured over
the 10 week time period?
8. What types of microbes did the students find in their
tanks?
All three sets of questions from today will be stamped as a homework titled 26."Guest Speaker Debrief & Aquaponics Intro"; I will check on Monday 2/4
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