IDEAs 2020 Project Framework

The Future of Farming

by Melissa Tracy

Social Studies Teacher & Garden Coordinator, Odyssey Charter School

• Project Framework
• Subject(s):
  • Social Studies- Geography
  • Science-Environmental Science, Chemistry, Biology
  • CTE- Agricultural Education, Food Studies
• Learning Outcomes:
  • Students will be able to:
    1. 100% of participating students will develop keen awareness and knowledge of the interconnections and interdependency of ecological, social, and economic systems. They will demonstrate an understanding of how the health of these systems determine the sustainability of natural and human communities at local, regional, national, and global levels.
    2.  100% of participating students will think critically about how the human-built environment can be designed or modified to promote ecological healthy and better serve quality of life for all humans.
    3.  100% of participating students will understand the importance of food as a foundation for individual, community, and environmental wellbeing.
    4. 100% of participating students will understand food as an avenue to empowerment, citizenship, and social justice.
    5. 100% of participating students will understand how power relationships in our country contribute to a food system that doesn't serve everyone equally and how to change this inequity.
    6. Through pretest and post-test measures, 100% of students will exhibit increased knowledge of how to be a "Food Citizen."
    7. Through pretest and post-test measures, 100% of students will exhibit increased knowledge of key issues related to the future of farming, climate mitigation, and climate change adaptation.
    8. 100% of students will understand the life cycle of a plant by growing produce from seed to plant to harvest.