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Classroom Activities, Stories and Facts: Hydroponics

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A list of stories, activities, facts and questions all pertaining to hydroponics. Includes information on building your own classroom hydroponic system.
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Activity
Smithsonian Institution

Lemelson Center: Spark!lab: Be a Hydroponic Gardener

For Students 3rd - 8th
Learn about the advantages of hydroponic gardening and how to conduct your own hydroponic experiment at home.
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Interactive
University of Arizona

Hydroponic Tomatoes: Hydroponic Information

For Students 9th - 10th
An extensive site that is ostensibly a hydroponics experiment for educating the reader about hydroponics, but it is packed with history and information. Click on the tomato to get started.
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Where Is the Dirt? A Lesson in Hydroponics

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This activity will be developed around hydroponic gardening, the growing of plants without soil. Using the Internet, learners will research hydroponics and share their knowledge with the class. A classroom hydroponic garden will be...
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Wikimedia

Wikipedia: Hydroponics

For Students 9th - 10th
Have you ever wanted to grow plants without soil? This site will give you seven techniques to do just this. Additionally, learn about the history of hydroponics, problems associated with hydroponics, and possible future uses.
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Website
Other

Am Hydro: American Hydroponics

For Students 9th - 10th
This business caters to both professional growers and hobbyists by providing the latest hydroponic farming equipment.
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: How Does It Grow? Hydroponic Spinach

For Students 9th - 10th
How do leafy greens like spinach grow even in the dead of winter? One way is hydroponics- an ancient technique that could be the future of farming. [4:51]
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Curated OER

Hydroponic Tomatoes: Hydroponic Information

For Students 9th - 10th
An extensive site that is ostensibly a hydroponics experiment for educating the reader about hydroponics, but it is packed with history and information. Click on the tomato to get started.
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Graphic
Curated OER

Hydroponic Tomatoes: Hydroponic Information

For Students 9th - 10th
An extensive site that is ostensibly a hydroponics experiment for educating the reader about hydroponics, but it is packed with history and information. Click on the tomato to get started.
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Lesson Plan
Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education, Stevens Institute of Technology

Ciese: Biodynamic Farming

For Teachers 9th - 10th
During this module students learn about biodynamic farming through hands-on activities that culminate in having multiple schools collaborate to design subsystems that are combined to make a working aquaponic system. During the SAGE...
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Lesson Plan
Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education, Stevens Institute of Technology

Ciese: Biodynamic Farming: A Systems and Global Engineering Project

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This is an excellent project where students investigate biodynamic farming techniques. They then collaborate with students from around the world to design an aquaponics system for cultivating fish and plants that can be used in an...
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E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Science: Norway: What Are Some Types of Plants?

For Students K - 1st
Heidi lives in Norway. She notices that plants grow on land, but also underwater. Help her figure out other places that plants grow.
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Next.cc

Next: Aquaponics

For Students 3rd - 8th
Use these numerous activities to gain a better understanding of aquaponics, a gravity-based, closed loop system that grows both food and fish.
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Other

Seafriends: Soil Dependence

For Students 9th - 10th
This website looks at our dependence on soil and what it produces. It includes text, graphs, charts, illustrations and important statistics. Hosted by the Seafriends Marine Conservation and Education Center.
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Website
PBS

Nh Pbs: Outlook on Money: Growing a Business

For Students 9th - 10th
Meet a vegetable farmer from Hooksett, NH, who shares his experiences as a small business owner. Gives tips and advice for starting a business and for how to take advantage of helpful resources to pursue entrepreneurial dreams. Includes...

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