Rainwater Harvesting Native Garden Design: Choosing Plants
by Brianne Loya
This design challenge was open for any interested students from grades 9-12. Students met afterschool over the course of the second semester. This is the 4th sequence of lessons in a set of 4. This lesson focuses on choosing plants that will best meet the water budget requirements students calculated in previous lesson and topography they designed using rainwater harvesting principles.
Lesson Plan Link/URL
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1uxsV1GJpNPwO6U-VwOE_t0SeCJHXbTSe/edit?u…Subject Area
Science Earth and Space Science Life Science Technology 4. Innovative Designer Engineering S1: Engineering & Global Society S2: Apply the Engineering Design Process English Language Arts (ELA) Speaking & Listening
Featured
Off
Related Content
Grades:
9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade
This lesson is a follow-up to the lesson titled "Creating Sustainable Solutions with Bioplastics Part 1". In this lesson, students evaluate different ingredients for bioplastics and create a minimum
Grades:
9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade
In this lesson students evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of conventional, petroleum-based plastics, bioplastics, and their different varieties. The lesson is driven by class/group research
Grades:
10th Grade, 12th Grade
This lesson builds on the Part 1 of Urbanization Impacts in the HS Environmental Science classroom. In this lesson, students are utilizing their knowledge to create models of solutions to the