Engineer a Vertical Farm
Posted on April 18th, 2018 by Mary Lord
Students in grades 6 to 8 explore food production problems related to population growth and then engineer a model vertical farm as a potential solution in a fictional community, Greentown, culminating with a presentation to the imaginary city’s “legislators.”
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