Unit 6D, Earth's Ecosystems Unit Project: Planning an Eco-Lodge Competition Design a habitat, modeled after Biosphere 2, in which your entire class could live for three months with no outside help.   Project Link 1 (Chapter 1, page D13) Design a Biosphere 2-type environment called Eco-Lodge, in which your teacher and the entire class could live for three months with no outside help. You can take into Eco-Lodge enough food for the first two months. Think about what the basic needs of the class will be and how your habitat will help meet these needs. Determine where Eco-Lodge will be located, how large it will be, and how it will look. Make sketches to show the features of Eco-Lodge. Internet Links Biosphere Biosphere 2 - Home http://www.bio2.com/index.html Biospherics http://www.biospheres.com/ Life Support Systems ThinkQuest Mars Academy: Life Support Systems http://library.thinkquest.org/12145/lss.htm ThinkQuest Mars Academy: Recycling Air http://library.thinkquest.org/12145/lifes6.htm Student Resources Welcome To Eco-Lodge!   Project Link 2 (Chapter 2, page D49) You will need to find a way to provide the class with food and water during the third month of your stay at Eco-Lodge. Make a plan to grow different types of plants. Decide how you will meet your need for water. List the materials you will bring to Eco-Lodge to meet these needs. Make a detailed plan of how you will provide for the needs of the class. Internet Links Water Filtration and Recycling North Carolina State University Water Recycling: Cleaning Water the Way Nature Does http://www.waterrecycling.com/ Food Production ThinkQuest Mars Academy: Food Production http://library.thinkquest.org/12145/lifes4.htm Hydroponics Virginia Cooperative Extension Home Hydroponics http://www.ext.vt.edu/pubs/envirohort/426-084/426-084.html University of Arizona Growing Tomatoes Hydroponically http://ag.arizona.edu/hydroponictomatoes/overview.htm University of Illinois Illinois Cooperative Extension Service Hydroponic Systems http://www.ag.uiuc.edu/~vista/html_pubs/hydro/hydroponic.html Student Resources Food and Water Needed! Water!   Project Link 3 (Chapter 3, page D75) Calculate how much food will be needed for one day and then for one month to feed everyone who will live in Eco-Lodge. Use a Food Pyramid to find out the kinds of food and the amount of food you that you need to eat each day to have a balanced diet. Use this data to list the kinds of plants and animals you will raise at Eco-Lodge. Find out how long it will take different types of plants to grow before they are ready to be eaten. For the animals you list, identify what they eat and any other special needs they have. Internet Links Food Pyramid The Nemours Foundation KidsHealth.org for Kids: The Food Guide Pyramid http://kidshealth.org/kid/stay_healthy/food/pyramid.html U.S. Department of Agriculture National Agricultural Library Food Guide Pyramid Topic Page (Food & Nutrition Information Center) http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/Fpyr/pyramid.html U.S. Department of Agriculture National Agricultural Library Nutrition and Your Health: Dietary Guidelines for Americans http://www.nalusda.gov/fnic/dga/dga95/cover.html Nutrition Explorations Kids:Nutrition http://www.nutritionexplorations.org/kids/nutrition-main.asp Growing Plants for Food Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History Seeds of Change Garden http://www.nmnh.si.edu/garden/ Texas A & M University The Department of Horticultural Sciences Nutrition in the Garden http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/nutrition/index/index.html University of Wisconsin at Madison Wisconsin Fast Plants Program http://www.fastplants.org/ Brooklyn Botanic Garden Gardening, Naturally: The Kitchen Gardener http://www.bbg.org/gar2/topics/kitchen/ Virgina Cooperative Extension Container Gardening http://www.ext.vt.edu/departments/envirohort/articles2/containr.html Aquaculture Aquasol, Inc., What is Aquaculture? http://www.fishfarming.com/index.html Student Resources No Junk Food! Animals Raised In the Eco-Lodge