META24 WORKFORCE LAB · GRADED TO THE CORE · PROJECT-BASED · AGRICULTURAL SCIENCE & AQUAPONICS · THE LAB'S YEAR · MIDDLE SCHOOL · UPPER SCHOOL · GRADE 6–12 · 1 CREDIT · META24 LAB COMPETENCIES
Agricultural Science & Aquaponics · the year
The Ground · Growing & Aquaponics · in The Ground · Growing & Aquaponics
The racks · the beds · the greenhouse · the aquaponic Loop — grow real food, log it daily, feed the Pop-Up. Delayed cause: you did a thing, and eleven days later something happened.
This year is laid from the lab’s own calendar — every course inside the lab end to end, then its floors — not written quarter by quarter. The weeks are the lab’s; the quarter windows are the catalog’s.
THE MIX · HOW MUCH OF EACH CORE SUBJECT THIS COURSE CARRIES · IN ORDER
SCIENCEART & DESIGNCODING & AIHISTORY, GEOGRAPHY & HUMANITIESTECHNOLOGY & TRADESBUSINESS & ENTERPRISEREADING & WRITINGMATH
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
- Grow real food (racks, beds, aquaponics)
- Log a daily grow + feed the Pop-Up
- See delayed cause + effect
AT A GLANCE · 36 WEEKS
Q1 The Ground · the science → The floor — A logged harvest
Q2 The floor — A grow plan
Q3 The floor — A logged harvest
Q4 The floor — A grow plan
THE COURSES INSIDE THIS LAB · 1
THE ROOMS · 14 · BEHIND LOGIN
Semester 1
WEEKS 1–18 · QUARTERS 1 AND 2Quarter 1 · The Ground · the science → The floor
WEEKS 1–9THE 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 racksTHE 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
A logged harvest
The question. Can you grow real food (racks, beds, aquaponics)?
The make. A logged harvest
The evidence. Handed in through The Ground · Growing & Aquaponics’s own surface and kept in My Work; the Report reads it from there.
Quarter 2 · The floor
WEEKS 10–18 · IN THIS OFFERINGTHE WEEKS · THE ROOMS EACH ONE OPENS
WK 10–15The racks (continued)THE FLOOR
The floor — the work is done in the room, logged in the room, kept in My Work.
WK 16–18The beds
The floor — the work is done in the room, logged in the room, kept in My Work.
THE PROJECT · WHAT THE QUARTER IS FOR
A grow plan
The question. Can you log a daily grow + feed the Pop-Up?
The make. A grow plan
The evidence. Handed in through The Ground · Growing & Aquaponics’s own surface and kept in My Work; the Report reads it from there.
Semester 2
WEEKS 19–36 · QUARTERS 3 AND 4Quarter 3 · The floor
WEEKS 19–27THE WEEKS · THE ROOMS EACH ONE OPENS
WK 19–22The beds (continued)THE FLOOR
The floor — the work is done in the room, logged in the room, kept in My Work.
WK 23–27The greenhouse
The floor — the work is done in the room, logged in the room, kept in My Work.
THE PROJECT · WHAT THE QUARTER IS FOR
A logged harvest
The question. Can you see delayed cause + effect?
The make. A logged harvest
The evidence. Handed in through The Ground · Growing & Aquaponics’s own surface and kept in My Work; the Report reads it from there.
Quarter 4 · The floor
WEEKS 28–36THE WEEKS · THE ROOMS EACH ONE OPENS
WK 28–29The greenhouse (continued)THE FLOOR
The floor — the work is done in the room, logged in the room, kept in My Work.
WK 30–36The aquaponic Loop — grow real food, log it daily, feed the Pop-Up. Delayed cause: you did a thing, and eleven days later something happened.
The floor — the work is done in the room, logged in the room, kept in My Work.
THE PROJECT · WHAT THE QUARTER IS FOR
A grow plan
The question. Can you grow real food (racks, beds, aquaponics)?
The make. A grow plan
The evidence. Handed in through The Ground · Growing & Aquaponics’s own surface and 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
One pass includes Agricultural Science & Aquaponics · the year and every course in the catalog. Pick a pass, or enter a school code; checkout stays on this page.