Workshop Highlights
2025 Spring Series Professional Development
From Soil to Water: Hands-on STEM with Gardens, Hydroponics, and Aquaponics
Tentative Agenda
9:00-9:15
Registration
- ASTE building, room 108
- 1498 N 800 E, Logan UT 84321
9:15-9:45
Orientation
- Introductions
- Utah AITC Overview
- Agenda
10:00-10:30
Drive to Lewiston Elementary
10:45-11:45
Lewiston Elementary Tour
- Hydro-Tower: Maintenance, plants, curriculum integration
- Trout in the Classroom: Curriculum integration
- Aquaponics
12:00-1:00
Lunch
1:00-2:00
Mountainside Elementary Tour
- Classroom-sized hydroponics systems: Tomatoes/hand pollination
- Large Hydroponics system: Drive-by donation station at the end of the year
- Aquaponics: Maintenance, curriculum integration, growing microgreens
2:00-2:30
Drive to ASTE
2:30-5:00
Utah AITC Hands-on Workshop
AITC Curriculum
AITC Curriculum
- Desktop greenhouses
- Test-tube hydroponics
- Aquaponics
- Aeroponics
- Evaluations
- Stipend set up
- Distribute teacher resource kits