Agricultural Literacy Curriculum Matrix
Agricultural Literacy Curriculum Matrix
Companion Resource
Programming Sun and Rain
On the cramped urban campus of Boston Latin School, students grow an acre’s worth of vegetables in an old shipping container that’s been transformed into a computer-controlled hydroponic farm. Using a wall-mounted keyboard or a mobile app, the student farmers can monitor their crops, tweak the climate, make it rain and schedule sunrise. Use this article to illustrate an example of hydroponics, the use of technology in agriculture, and/or urban farming.
URL
http://hechingerreport.org/programming-sun-rain-students-run-indoor-farm-school-computer-mobile-app/
Author
Chris Berdik
Organization
The Hechinger Report