Aquaponics

Abstract

Big Ideas: • Develop an understanding of sustainability and explain how aquaponics systems contribute to local sustainability. • Life cycles of plant, animals and microorganisms in an aquatic system and the importance of interdependence and nutrient cycling within an ecosystem. Essential Questions: • What is sustainability? • What is an aquaponics system? • What organisms make up the community in the system? • What role do plants animals and microbes play? • How do the organisms depend on each other?