META24 WORKFORCE LAB · GRADED TO THE CORE · PROJECT-BASED · A COURSE IN AGRICULTURAL SCIENCE & AQUAPONICS · MIDDLE SCHOOL · UPPER SCHOOL · GRADE 6–12 · 0.25 CREDIT · META24 LAB COMPETENCIES
Agricultural Science
The Ground · the science · in The Ground · Growing & Aquaponics
8 weeks of The Ground · Growing & Aquaponics: What dirt really is · The six plant parts · pH and the N-P-K trade · The energy pyramid · Know the bug, climb the ladder …
The weeks are the course’s own, read from the lab; the catalog pads the last weeks with the capstone and the floor so the course fills a whole term.
THE MIX · HOW MUCH OF EACH CORE SUBJECT THIS COURSE CARRIES · IN ORDER
SCIENCEART & DESIGNCODING & AIHISTORY, GEOGRAPHY & HUMANITIESREADING & WRITINGTECHNOLOGY & TRADESBUSINESS & ENTERPRISEMATH
The squares are a picture of a course — how much of each core subject its own rooms carry, read from the rooms’ text — never a score of a student. Every course in a lab is graded to the core across the board; the squares say which columns it feeds most.
WHAT YOU WILL BE ABLE TO DO
- Sand, silt, clay — the jar test, drainage, and what a big rain does.
- Root, stem, leaf, flower, fruit, seed — and which one you actually eat.
- Why a plant can starve in a full pantry — and the number on the fertilizer bag.
- Every step loses 90% of the energy — why one hawk needs a whole field.
AT A GLANCE · 9 WEEKS
Q1 What dirt really is → The floor — The assignments · weeks 1–9
ALSO IN AGRICULTURAL SCIENCE & AQUAPONICS · THE GROUND · GROWING & AQUAPONICS
A quarter
9 WEEKS · ONE QUARTERQuarter 1 · What dirt really is → The floor
WEEKS 1–9 · IN THIS OFFERINGTHE WEEKS · THE ROOMS EACH ONE OPENS
WK 1What dirt really isTHE GROUND · THE SCIENCE
Sand, silt, clay — the jar test, drainage, and what a big rain does.
WK 2The six plant parts
Root, stem, leaf, flower, fruit, seed — and which one you actually eat.
WK 3pH and the N-P-K trade
Why a plant can starve in a full pantry — and the number on the fertilizer bag.
WK 4The energy pyramid
Every step loses 90% of the energy — why one hawk needs a whole field.
WK 5Know the bug, climb the ladder
6 legs, 3 parts, two ways to grow up — and the four-rung pest ladder (B3).
WK 6The three sisters
Stack jobs so plants do each other’s work — and close the loop.
WK 7F1 segregation & cloning
Save seed from a hybrid and watch it split — plus slips, cloves, and cuttings.
WK 8The cold chain
The danger zone, the hour after you cut, and the habits behind a safe plate.
WK 9The floor
The floor: the work is done in the room, logged in the room, kept in My Work.
THE PROJECT · WHAT THE QUARTER IS FOR
The assignments · weeks 1–9
The question. What does The Ground ask you to be able to do by week 8?
The make. Every week's assignment and the quiz as practice: What dirt really is · The six plant parts · pH and the N-P-K trade · The energy pyramid …
The evidence. Handed in through The Ground inside The Ground · Growing & Aquaponics, kept in My Work; the Report reads it from there.
A course is a quarter, a semester or a year — nine, eighteen or thirty-six weeks — a project a quarter. Offered as the year, a semester or a quarter, it is the same course seen through a window. A lab is a family: its year, each of its tracks as a course, and its rooms. The evidence is what a student hands in through the room; the Report reads it from there. Nothing in the catalog is a grade.
THE PASS · THIS COURSE AND EVERY OTHER ONE
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