ONE WATER CYCLE: Grades 9-12- Biology – Healthy Ocean, Healthy Planet Grade 9-12 – Lesson 1 – Inquiry Launch – Biology

How can we impact the ocean environment to harvest healthy food and resources?

Questions to hold on to​

  • What resources do animals need to survive?
  • What nutrients do plants need to grow?

Add to your thinking

The Digital Notebook is a space to hold your thoughts, questions, and growing understanding throughout this Unit.  You will be able to access it from every Module. Use The Digital Notebook to jot your thinking, take notes, or as a space to develop your writing. You can print and export it anytime, and at the end of lesson 8 you’ll be reminded to save a copy for yourself.

Salt Water Aquaponics is growing seaweed and salt water vegetables to clean shrimp waste!

Aquaponic Research

Inside a greenhouse off Champagne Boulevard north of Escondido, lettuce, cucumbers and tomatoes are being grown in an aquaponic research facility designed to teach others about sustainable farming. The ultimate goal of the center is far loftier: to save the world. Read More

Fish are fed and raised in a tank and as gravity pulls the wastewater through a hydroponic garden, bacteria feed on the waste, breaking it down into essential nutrients for the plants to grow.

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