- Introduction to Systems
- Systems Are Everywhere
- Bioengineering a Sustainable World
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Computational Modeling
- Demystifying Machine Learning
- Ecological Networks
- Environmental Influence on Gene Networks
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Invisible Forest
Unit Plan Lesson 0.5 – It’s Only a Drop of Water (Project Based Learning Plan) Lesson 1 – A Breath of Oxygen Lesson 2 – Who’s who in the photosynthetic world from macro to microscale Lesson 3 – Tools of the Trade Exploratorium: Collecting Oceanographic Data From Where We Cannot See Lesson 3.5 Phytoplankton, Spectrophotometry & Microscopy Labs Lesson 4 – Scaling up: Linking cells in a drop of seawater to global patterns Lesson 5 – Dive into Data: Raw to Results Contributors
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Modeling Sustainable Food Systems
Food Security Module Overview Lesson FS1: Introduction to Food Security Lesson FS2: Critically Evaluating Food Production Techniques Application: Designing, constructing, and reengineering a system Lesson FS3: Who Cares? Stakeholders! Lesson FS4: Food Security as a System Lesson FS5: Why Don’t We Just Grow More? Lesson FS6: Where Does Our Food Come From? Lesson FS7: Summative Assessment – United Nations Council Meeting Contributors
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Observing Beyond Our Senses
Unit Plan Lesson 1 – Introduction to Saline Environments & Microbial Halophiles Lesson 2 – Design Process-Measuring Wind Speed Lesson 3 – Inferences From Proxy Variable Mock AFM Lesson 4 – Signal and Noise Lesson 5 – Inferring Properties and Calibrations Lesson 6 – Death Valley Middle Basin Case Study Contributors
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Ocean Acidification
Unit Plan Lesson 1 – Critical and Systems Evaluation of News Articles Lesson 2 – Exploring CO2 to Better Understand Ocean Acidification Lesson 3 – Defining the Problem: Ocean Acidification Lesson 4 – Planning Cohesive Experiments Lesson 5a – Ocean Acidification Experimentation Lesson 5b – Online Data and Supplemental Evidence Lesson 5b – Online Data and Supplemental Evidence (pre-2018 version) Lesson 5c – Using Ocean Acidification Models to Make Predictions Lesson 6 – Global Ocean Acidification Summit Contributors
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Carbon’s Fate
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Systems Medicine Education
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Standards Addressed
- Community-Contributed
Lesson FS6: Where Does Our Food Come From?
Description: How does our food get from farm to table and what resources are required to get it there? In this activity, students will play a game to produce pizza. While the game uses economics as a driving force to model food production, students must use a systems thinking approach to strategize and make decisions.
Objectives
THE BIGGER PICTURE
How does our food get from farm to table and what resources are required to get it there? In this activity, students will play a game to produce pizza. While the game uses economics as a driving force to model food production, students must use a systems approach to strategize and make decisions. Various food production techniques can be utilized, each with their own costs and benefits; therefore, students will need to make a series of decisions to grow crops while also considering the impact they impart on the environment. Weighing economic interests against resource use and environmental consequences can be challenging! Students also learn to adapt their food systems in the face of environmental catastrophes and will gain understanding of how agriculture and food production is a system. Many factors (social, environmental, economic, etc) impact that system; however, some of these variables are not included due to time constraints.
Instructions
FOR EDUCATORS
Please use this Complete Food Security (FS) Module link to access the most up-to-date version of our Food Security Curriculum Module (last updated 02/23/2021). If you would like to further field-test or optimize these lessons, please email us at see@isbscience.org.
Assessment
This lesson follows the FS Pre/post-assessment (Google Doc | Word Doc), Lesson FS1: Introduction to Food Security, Lesson FS2: Critically Evaluating Food Production Techniques, FS APPLICATION 1, Lesson FS3: Who Cares? Stakeholders!, Lesson FS4: Food Security as a System and Lesson FS5: Why Don’t We Just Grow More? Please consider sending electronic versions of any student work to see@isbscience.org.
Resources
For your convenience, the following are quick links to the resources required for Lesson FS6: Where Does Our Food Come From? (p. 34-51)