Scope and Sequence

Traditional Format

1. What is Hydroponics

2. History of Hydroponics

3. Benefits of Hydroponics

4. Requirements for Hydroponics

5. Parts of a System

6. Types of Hydroponic Systems

7. Designing/Fabricating a System

8. Designing/Constructing a structure/System support

9. Selecting a Grow Light

10. Germinating Seeds and Cloning Plants

11. Water Quality and Mixing Nutrients

12. Data Gathering and Variables

13. Maintaining a Hydroponic System

14. Optimization and Experimentation

15. Data Analysis

16. Vertical Farming

Additional Lessons related to Hydroponics

• Photosynthesis

• Energy Usage

• Cost Analysis

• Creating a Vertical Farm

• Selecting Plants for Hydroponics

• Designing a hydroponic system on SketchUp

1. Design Challenge Kick-off- The future of hydroponics.

2. What is Hydroponics?

3. What are the benefits to Hydroponics?

4. What are the requirments for Hydroponics?

5. What are the parts of a hydroponic system?

6. What are the different types of systems?

7. How do you design a system?

8. What support or structure does my system need?

   1. Which Grow light is "best"?

   2. How do I start pants in my system?

   3. What do I need to do to prepare my water?

   4. How do I know how well my system is doing?

   5. How do you maintain a hydroponic system?

   6. How can I optimize the system?

   7. What does my Data tell me?

   8. How can Vertical farming be used to solve a global issue?

Additional Lessons related to Hydroponics

• How do plants get their energy?

• How much Energy does my system use?

• What is the cost benefit of my system

• How do you turn a hydroponic systme into a vertical farm?

• Which plants are good for my system?

• How do you use sketchup to model a a hydroponic system?