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= Project Based Learning Group 3 =

Sustainable Living in The Modern World
>> >> >> >>> > All activities include: Lesson Plans and Student Handouts > Activity 1 - Digging Up Some Knowledge > Activity 2 - Cultivating a Sustainable Lifestyle > Activity 3 - Selling Sustainability
 * The Big Idea:
 * Individual Sustainability
 * Essential Question:
 * How can we incorporate ways of pre-industrial communities to live sustainably in a modern global society?
 * The Challenge:
 * Create a marketing plan to inform the public how to start and maintain a sustainable garden based on pre-industrial farming for a ⅛ acre plot.
 * Guiding Questions:
 * Activity 1:
 * What is sustainable living?
 * What are the benefits of having your own garden vs. the impacts of non-sustainable living?
 * What crops are prolific in our area from spring until fall -keep drought tolerance in mind?
 * Activity 2:
 * What are some farming techniques of pre-industrial communities?
 * What are some ways of preserving food over winter?
 * How many of each type of plant should a person buy for 1/8 acre?
 * Activity 3:
 * What materials are needed to maintain a garden?
 * What is the start-up cost for a garden - including tools, fertilizer, pest management, and plants?
 * How can you communicate to the public: importance of sustainable gardening, integrating pre-industrial farming techniques, materials needed, start-up costs, - this will become your product?
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