Project overview:
Project STEAM 2014
High Tech High Goes Green
As a team, we are working to develop a cross curricular, collaborative project involving the creation and implementation of a working organic farm/garden at our school. This project will incorporate all of the students in 10-12 grade here at High Tech High North County. High Tech High North County is a public charter school in San Diego County. We are a project-based learning school that values cross-curricular and integrated project work. This project is particularly unique in that all of the Exploratory classes are involved in development and implementation. As a result, all upperclassmen and women will be involved in the production of the project. In addition, this project is designed to benefit our entire village of K-12 students, teachers and our surrounding community.
This project will be a “rigorous, systematic and programmatic integration” of our Engineering, Multimedia, Visual and Industrial Art Classes. The garden will include a full aquaponics system, and fully organic farming plots to be used by both the High School and Elementary students to study biology, environmental engineering, art, and multimedia. The garden will also be esthetically thoughtful including wall and garden art. All classes will work together to develop positive culture around food in our community. We also hope to be involved in an ongoing community farmers market on site or in a local space. Although teachers are working to develop an inclusive STEAM curriculum, it is our belief that giving students the opportunity to help develop the curriculum creates student buy in for the work. Students will be required to help develop rubrics, brainstorm exhibition ideas and determine how the work will contain a real world and community connection to is relevant.
For a lesson plan brief click here.
Project STEAM 2014
High Tech High Goes Green
As a team, we are working to develop a cross curricular, collaborative project involving the creation and implementation of a working organic farm/garden at our school. This project will incorporate all of the students in 10-12 grade here at High Tech High North County. High Tech High North County is a public charter school in San Diego County. We are a project-based learning school that values cross-curricular and integrated project work. This project is particularly unique in that all of the Exploratory classes are involved in development and implementation. As a result, all upperclassmen and women will be involved in the production of the project. In addition, this project is designed to benefit our entire village of K-12 students, teachers and our surrounding community.
This project will be a “rigorous, systematic and programmatic integration” of our Engineering, Multimedia, Visual and Industrial Art Classes. The garden will include a full aquaponics system, and fully organic farming plots to be used by both the High School and Elementary students to study biology, environmental engineering, art, and multimedia. The garden will also be esthetically thoughtful including wall and garden art. All classes will work together to develop positive culture around food in our community. We also hope to be involved in an ongoing community farmers market on site or in a local space. Although teachers are working to develop an inclusive STEAM curriculum, it is our belief that giving students the opportunity to help develop the curriculum creates student buy in for the work. Students will be required to help develop rubrics, brainstorm exhibition ideas and determine how the work will contain a real world and community connection to is relevant.
For a lesson plan brief click here.