BioChemistry Lesson Plans

BioChemistry Lesson Plans

Welcome to the BioChemistry Lesson Plans at Mezzacello Urban Farm

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Day One:

Farm Systems -

1. Design Challenge: Compost 101
2. Design Challenge: Create a Simple Pump
3. Design Challenge: Understanding The Cycles on a Farm

Team Building - What makes a good team and how do you make that happen?

1. Design Challenge: Atomic People (creating teams with atomic properties)
2. Design Challenge: Team Identity
3. Design Challenge: STEM Identity

Layers of Reality - a fun way to introduce the STEM in #UrbanAgTech by creating a model for the way the world works through art and lecture.

Day Two

Webs of Life - a quick review of where in our world we interact with Atoms and why.

1. Design Challenge: NHCOPS Challenge
2. Design Challenge: Creating a Perfect Fertilizer
3. Design Challenge: How Nitrogen Propagates

Data 101 - A deeper dive into how and why we collect and use data from graphs and labels to predictions and proof.

1. Design Challenge: Create a Data Set
2. Design Challenge: Create a chart
3. Design Challenge: Tell a Story with Data

Day Three:

The Circle of Life - a crash course into Applied STEM and Math integration in Ag and in STEM.

1. Design Challenge: Create a Lasagna Garden
2. Design Challenge: Identify a Useful Pollinator
3. Design Challenge: Using Bases to Bleach things

As Above; So Below - a reminder that life is sophisticated and deeper than we want to acknowledge, but is essentially Yin and Yang with a boundary layer.

1. Design Challenge: The MicroFauna
2. Design Challenge: Air, Water, Earth, Fire
3. Design Challenge: Create a Water Purifier

Day Four

Career Crossover - Allows students to reflect on what they have observed and how it impacts their curiosity and their future

1. Design Challenge: Career Memory Game
2. Design Challenge: Team Algorithm
3. Design Challenge: Interview for Your Future Job

Analyze and Modify - Create a script for the final video for the team at Camp.

1. Design Challenge: Discuss with your team what your video will be
2. Design Challenge: Assign Random Roles
3. Design Challenge: Create a Carbon Sink

Day Five

• Finish Your Product Development
• Prep for Presentation
• Present your Final Presentation