BioChemistry Lesson Plans
BioChemistry Lesson Plans
Welcome to the BioChemistry Lesson Plans at Mezzacello Urban Farm
Day One:
Farm Systems -
Design Challenge: Compost 101
Design Challenge: Create a Simple Pump
Design Challenge: Understanding The Cycles on a Farm
Team Building - What makes a good team and how do you make that happen?
Design Challenge: Atomic People (creating teams with atomic properties)
Design Challenge: Team Identity
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.
Design Challenge: NHCOPS Challenge
Design Challenge: Creating a Perfect Fertilizer
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.
Design Challenge: Create a Data Set
Design Challenge: Create a chart
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.
Design Challenge: Create a Lasagna Garden
Design Challenge: Identify a Useful Pollinator
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.
Design Challenge: The MicroFauna
Design Challenge: Air, Water, Earth, Fire
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
Design Challenge: Career Memory Game
Design Challenge: Team Algorithm
Design Challenge: Interview for Your Future Job
Analyze and Modify - Create a script for the final video for the team at Camp.
Design Challenge: Discuss with your team what your video will be
Design Challenge: Assign Random Roles
Design Challenge: Create a Carbon Sink
Day Five
Finish Your Product Development
Prep for Presentation
Present your Final Presentation
