WHERE BRAINS GROW

Classroom in the dirt:
curriculum ideas + example

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CURRICULUM

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Tomato
Poppies

FINE ART

natural dyes

NUTRITION

diet analysis
hunger
organic food

HISTORY

economics
"new world" crops environmental

BIOLOGY

environmental
conservation
botany

GEOGRAPHY

food commodity
agriculture ecosystem

SOCIOLOGY

permacultuture
"green" space
culture

GCOM

design web site
promotional materials

CIS

web development
programming
database

BIOLOGY

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City Farm could provide an actual landscape to create a plant collection and identify plant species for a Field Botany class, to engage in formulating strategies for environmental problems in an Environmental Biology class, or to demonstrate evolutionary trends in plant biology.

FINE ART

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NUTRITION

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City Farm provides many opportunities to engage students in concepts like diet analysis, hunger, dietary guidelines, life span and evaluation of carbohydrates and calories.

HISTORY

City Farm can address food in history and illustrate a concept like "new world" crops through a planting and harvest during one semester. The physical land could also benefit discussions about capitalism and agribusiness and responses to some of the world's economic and environmental problems and less obvious "costs".

SOCIOLOGY

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City Farm could engage with and support projects related to alternative economic models and discussions of culture (and it's various aspects), labor, stratification, globalization, etc. The project could assist students in rethinking the use of public and social space and what "green".

GEOGRAPHY

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Through hands-on and semester-long activities, City Farm could provide an illustration of concepts including the distance food travels, commodity/resource networks, water transport, foodways, climate change and shifting ecosystems, relationships between climate, soils, flora and agriculture.

CIS

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GRAPHIC COMMUNICATION

Students could design signage and promotions for City Farm. With an actual location, students would have the opportunity to observe the successes or shortfalls of their work, by observing human interaction with the space. Additionally, City Farm would provide a 3D canvas for visual exploration and interpretation, as well as compositional design.