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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