This document outlines a classroom project where students will design and build greenhouses to grow produce. They will research the costs and benefits of growing their own food versus buying it. Students will work in groups to choose crops to plant and present their plans. The project aims to teach STEM skills and connect to students' lives by addressing food insecurity. Struggling students will be identified and modifications made to engage them, such as tailoring activities to their interests. Students will be graded on their greenhouse designs, presentations, and participation.

1. Jessica Hall
Maureen Joy McGriff
EDTE – 314 Spring 2013
Central Connecticut State University

2. • Question we want students to think about
– What ways do growing your own produce effect
you and your community both negatively and
positively?

3. • Constructivism
– Scaffolding
– Facilitating
– Guided activities
– Build a sense of the
world through
experience
• Liberal / Progressive
– Students interest &
Choice
– Promotes critical
thinking
– Connect factual and
conceptual knowledge.
– Discussions
– Presentations

4. • What research will students do.
– Snap Statistics
– Local Farms
– Hunger Statistics
– How much produce cost
– How greenhouses work
– How to maintain a compost pile
– Cost to transport food
– Cost to grow food
– How much will be saved growing 1 tomato vs. buying
1 tomato

5. • Classroom –
– Using Revit students will design the green house to be built in the
schools courtyard.
• Community
– Mini Farmers Market – Sale to Community
– Sale to parents and other students
– Trip to Rose’s Berry Farm in Glastonbury, CT
– Trip to Roger’s Orchards in Southington, CT
• Group
– Each group can choose what they want to plant. (Squash, Zucchini,
Tomatoes, Green beans, Radish )
• Presentation
– All ideas
– Poster board of group plants facts sheets, growing instructions,
expected final results

6. • Show relation / Personal Experience
– Revit= Designing which uses STEM (Science, Technology,
Engineering and Math)
– Building the greenhouses= Hands on working with different
materials like wood and metal
• This could relate to some students because their household may
be tight on money which causes them to not have much food so
this would be a good way to save money because they could
keep growing the produce in their backyard or somewhere near
the house
• How I think the project will do this
– This project can show relevance between students, community
and Technology Education because the students are helping out
in the community by designing their own greenhouses to be
built so they could grow their own produce. They are also going
out into the community to sell their products that they grew in
the greenhouses.

7. • Struggling students could be addressed in a
few ways-
– Finding out what is going on like what they are
struggling with.
– If they don’t know what they are struggling with,
maybe give them an idea to help move them
forward

8. • How will we change / modify for students to
engage in activities
– Find out what he or she likes and doesn’t like
about the activities.
– Use what they like and expand
– Create similar activities that use the same skills as the
original project to interest the student.
– Show the student how beneficial the activity is.

9. • Grade design
• Grade presentations
• Participation

10. • Grade design
• Grade presentations
• Participation