Individual Sustainability
Project Sketch
Guiding Resources:
Resources for Activity 3:
1. “The Highly Effective Marketing Plan” (video, 5:03): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiSh6WTzGU8
2. Crapify Your Graphic Design: http://intermedialnotes.blogspot.com/2009/07/c-r-p-ify-your-graphic-design.html
3. Motivation Psychology – “Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi: Flow Theory” (video, 1:28)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MEWPr_A8TM
Resources for Activity 2:
1. http://www.themorristribe.com/ - one family’s journey to becoming sustainable
2. http://vimeo.com/8285408 - brief video about the food industry during the pass 200 years
3. http://www.cspinet.org/reports/chemcuisine.htm#safety_summary- list of food preservatives
4. http://www.sustainabletable.org/issues/additives/- preservatives and flavorings
5. http://www.preservefood.com/- resource for ways to preserve food in a sustainable way
Resources for Activity 1:
Defining Sustainable Living: http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-sustainable-living.htm
What is Sustainable Gardenting: http://www.agronomica.org/SF.htm
MindMap for Ways We Live Sustainably: http://www.mindomo.com/edit.htm?m=2de3ef9e244e40029a6d427ad2c5bb77
Online Poll for Benefits of Having a Garden: http://www.polleverywhere.com/free_text_polls/MTE2ODM2MjI3OQ
Cost-effective Plants Template: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?key=0AgPmz-tbV0i4dE0yNG9GSHJiZElYajdnUmtSTXNoV3c&output=html
Web Resouces to complete Google Doc - Cost-effective Plants:
http://eartheasy.com/blog/2011/01/top-6-most-cost-effective-vegetables-to-grow/
http://www.burpee.com/gygg/growingCalendarNoZipCode.jsp
Guiding Activities:
Guiding Activity 3: - Greg Zahm
Guiding Activity 2: - Erika Styer
Guiding Activity 1: - Brittany Byrne
Digging Up Some Knowledge
Guiding Questions:
Activity 1:
What is sustainable living?
What are the benefits of having your own garden vs. the impacts of non-sustainable living?
What crops are prolific in our area from spring until fall -keep drought tolerance in mind?
Activity 2:
What are some farming techniques of pre-industrial communities?
What are some ways of preserving food over winter?
How many of each type of plant should a person buy for 1/8 acre?
Activity 3:
What materials are needed to maintain a garden?
What is the start-up cost for a garden - including tools, fertilizer, pest management, and plants?
How can you communicate to the public: importance of sustainable gardening, integrating pre-industrial farming techniques, materials needed, start-up costs, - this will become your product?
Group 3:
Brittany Byrne
Erika Styer
Greg Zahm
Greg's Responsibilities:
Inital contact via e-mail
Develop and Agree to Proposal Form
Activity 3
Erika's Responsibilities:
Google Docs/Calendar Managment
Develop and Agree to Proposal Form
Activity 2
Origional Annotations
Brittany's Responsibilities:
Wiki Managment
Create Diigo Group
Create MindMap
Develop and Agree to Proposal Form
Activity 1
Hyperlinking Wiki and Google Docs
The Challenge:
Create a marketing plan to inform the public how to start and maintain a sustainable garden based on pre-industrial farming for a ⅛ acre plot.
Step 2: Determine the edible plants you nwill need to grow in order to provide a healthy diet for your family.
Step 1: Determine a suitable layout for your garden plot.
The Essential Question:
How can we incorporate ways of pre-industrial communities to live sustainably in a modern global society?
Content Standards
21st Century Skills
Subtopic
Biology
#2: Ecology
#1: Biochemistry
Nutrition
consequences
of extreme changes in pH
and temperature
functions of macromolecules
Environmental Science
#6: Today's Environmental Issues related to
#4: Resource Depletion
#3: Resource Based Conflict
#2: Loss of Biodiversity/Mass Extinction
#1: Climate Change
#5: Renewable & Non-renewable energy sources
#4: Commercial Ag.
#3: Traditional Agriculture (Ag.)
#2: Sustainability
#1: Consumption
