COMMUNITY GARDEN: Organic vs. Conventional Foods

Elba Rosa

Project Description

Ingredients• Community Garden• Research Project• Civic engagement• Inquiry-research

based/quantitative research

OBJECTIVES

• Civic engagement– Community building– Research Literature Links

Background Info– Public meeting/debate

present pros/con organic foods

• Quantitative Research– Survey family members– Health-related

diseases/foods

• Garden Project– Plan– procedures– Products– Produce

• Assessment– Debate Rubric – Research/survey– Sign Sheet hrs. garden

GOAL

• Healthy lifestyle/food choices

• Relate disease/disorder with foods

• GMO’s• Use of PESTICIDES/SOIL • Advantage Organic

foods

Student Handouts

• Video: What about this fish?

• http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/harvest/etc/video.html

• Background research/website links

• Course syllabus• Lab syllabus• Rubric

• Assessment– Rubric – debate– Sign in Sheet -Garden

Involvement- hours/time invested

– Analysis/presentation of survey results