We are all Connected

UNLESS SOMEONE LIKE YOU CARES A WHOLE AWFUL LOT NOTHING IS GOING TO GET BETTER IT’S NOT -DR. SUESS Charles Darwin Quote

Aquaponics and The 6 Degrees of Connectedness Design Brief By: Students of Environmental Sustainability Academy and Holland Township School, 5th and 6th grade Gifted and Talented Collaboration for Aquaponic systems

● Shival Panchal

● Isabel Devita

● Jason Kraycirik Community Outreach

Client: Holland Township School

Target Consumer: Mrs. Basckai’s gifted and talented students are creating an enhanced learning environment for the whole school to utilize the growing dome Problem and Task Statement

❖ There is more potential energy inside the geodome than we are tapping into. We are wasting the ammonium in the tank. It is a problem for fish but we can create something to have a positive affect. Client requires closed looped system using to grow a sensory sustainably, modeling how aquaponics works.

❖ It must utilize a space in the geodome that is currently dormant.

❖ The System must not exceed the space available. Design Statement

ESEA will design test, and provide to the class a sustainable Aquaponics system that will make for an improved learning environment and occupy that space. Constraints Size of Capacity: : 900 Gallon tank One outlet –need a power cord to

Constraints $400 Budget: Temperature: Mechanical and Maintains structural systems 20-25 degrees warmer inside $300 Biological the dome systems Light availability: 2018-2019 Limited from school year Nov to Feb. Aquaponics vs. Aquaponics Hydroponics ● Running water in the tower garden ● In Ms.Wilt’s tower garden there are in our school waters the in tomatoes and eggplants growing the tower ● There are also seeds planted in ● Running water in the geodome rockwool under the tower system helps to keep dirt from settling at that will grow to be basil, red and the bottom of the water basin yellow peppers, sweet peppers, ● The water basin in the geodome and peppermint has fish that live in it ● ● The tower system is very relaxing because of the running water sounds We learned this from observing Ms.Wilt’s tower garden and observing the biodome that is installed at our school Biodome

● Biodiversity index Growing Free farm Stop #1

Glen Gardner, NJ Kylie’s point of view of the Growing Free Farm!

Our trip to the Growing Free farm was astounding! The farm smelt so fresh and really relaxed me! I loved seeing the fish that produced waste that would give the plants energy to grow! I liked how they helped feed the community in a good environment so plants could grow all year long! I think that growing in

Indoor /fish farm is a great way to help the environment! Jaben's Experience of the Growing Free Farm

Our trip to the Growing Free Farm was amazing! It was amazing to see the fish make waste and the waste fertilizes the plants. They then sell the food to their local community. Darren’s Experience

● There were 6 tanks with 250 Tilapia fish in each tank ● Their were a variety of plants, including cucumbers, cabbages and much, much, more! Darren’s and his mom’s Pictures Mia’s reflection

water is recycled for the plants. The fish’s waste is nutrients used for the plants. Once the fiWe went to the Growing Free Farm, all of the fish get to a certain size they sell them for food. They made waterbeds and use the recycled water, the roots were let into the water as the plants remain dry above the waterbed. We had so much fun there. Juli’s experience We went to the growing free farm were they grew plants in water it is called aquaponics. They use fish waste to give nutrients to the plants. They reuse the water and sell the fish when there old enough for food. Garrett’s experience 2 Part 2: Polytech Stations Lucas Beyers’ experience

I really enjoyed the G&T field trip. I liked the Growing Free Farm and them how they grew the plants in water. My favorite part was all of the fish Mackenzie’s Reflection Of the Hunterdon County Polytech

The Hunterdon County Polytech was a great experience. We learned about what kind of system,fish,plants, setup we need to help the Geodome. I believe that this took a lot of time and effort.

Malachi’s Favorite Station To me my favorite station at the polytech stop was the design station. It showed how the vertical aquaponic in the geodome would work. He showed all of the systems in it too. Jason Kraycirik did the design station. This globe shows the shipping routes for our clothes. Some of our clothes come from the otherside of the world. The pollution from the ship engine can hurt the environment. Caitlin’s reflection

Structural

The structure of the hanging garden includes what we are making it out of and the design. The student at polytech who was doing this part of the project had to think of how much of the pvc tubing they needed and also a design that will allow the water to get to all the plants. They thought of other place that use other systems and that helped them find the right design. The students decided on a spiraling design. The design allows the water to start at the top and fall down to the lower levels. Abby’s Reflection: Flora and Fauna Station

I learned that it is important to find the right fish and plants to make the aquaponics system work correctly. The Polytech students found out that there are two types of goldfish, the single-tailed and the double-tailed. They choose the single-tailed goldfish. They decided not to use both the single-tailed and double-tailed, the double-tailed would eat all of the food because they are faster swimmers. Cadence's experience at the Hunterdon county polytech. Kylie’s Reflection: Flora and Fauna

At the Hunterdon Polytech we learned what plants and fish will be in our very own aquaponics system! Isabelle Klaudia’s reflection

Fac I led

1. Ko f ar t hod o dr a ce. 2. The v a g o m i. 3. The n a n d en o t res. 4. It’s ad n he f fi f h eme. 5. Part 3: Nurture Nature Center L’ E N N C

In my opinion, The Nature Nurture Center was the most informational. The employees talked about how little things are connected to big problems. After we talked about that, We made really cool webs about how subjects contribute to world wide problems. I made my web about how houses have electricity which contributes to global warming. I really enjoyed our last stop on our field trip. Final Stop - Nature Nurture Center - Abby’s Experience

At the Nature Nurture Center we learned about Six-degrees of Connectedness. In some continents there are very little Facebook connections, while there are millions of Facebook connections in North America. They helped us learn the concept of connectedness better by using a globe shaped projector and doing a craft. For the craft we took a small topic like styrofoam and illustrated how within 5-6 steps it can have a great effect on the Earth. Part three; Nurture Nature center-Aaron’s experience

They had a cool big globe that showed many things like plane flights and volcano eruptions.

The globe showed a huge eruption on the sun.When heat particles from the sun hit the atmosphere and it creates the northern lights.

This cool interactive globe taught me how technology helps us understand the earth. Kadence experience at Nurture Nature center

At the Nurture Nature Center, I was informed on how bad global warming actually is. Where it’s the worst is at the North and South arctic. All around the world, there are THe picture above, many, many, many facebook shows all the facebook connections from connections around the world. everywhere!!! Maggie’s Point of View of the Nurture Nature Center!

This picture shows all the shipping routes in the world. It also show the airlines of all the products being shipped. We found out that most of our clothing is from Vietnam, Georgia, and Canada. e Garrett’s experience In the Nurture Nature Center I learned about

The 6 degrees of connectedness. It shows

How everything is connected. The things that we do affect the

World and things around us.

The picture to the left is the sand pit.

Everytime you change the form of the sand

The projector shows how the land changed.

I learned about the topography of the earth.

The sand pit showed the elevations when you changed form of the sand

Now I have better perspective of elevations of NJ to St.Thomas

Evan’s Experience in the Nature Nature center

The Globe showed many different things such as Created By:

Lauren Van horn Darren Klusner

Evan Bonilla Lucas Byers

Jaben Ni Kashner Whyte

Catlin Deshinka Briana Krachuenaus

Makenzie Stanley Maggie Davis

Allyssa Brookins Mia 3-6-19

Today on 3-6-19 we documented the measurements of 24 inches wide, 36 inches long, and 48 inches tall for the aquaponics system