Not only will students learn to manage a self-sustaining ecosystem, he said other groups will benefit from the experiments. Culinary Arts students will be able to cook the fish and the vegetables grown, and the day care children will be able to come by and watch the fish swim through a small window at the bottom of the tank.
“We’re trying to jazz up the experience and the lab things they get to do,” Thacker said. “It’s going to be kind of a challenge and fun watching it run. It’s better than learning from a book. They’re going to have to do a lot of chemistry tests.”
Assistant Principal Jason Chilman said the experience gives students an opportunity to learn from a non-traditional laboratory setting.
“It was an opportunity for us to remain at the forefront of classroom experience,” he said. “It’s just giving them another experience to relates that written material back to something they can put their hands on and touch.
The lessons, Thacker said, will give students a perspective for any career they choose.
“This has been a landmark year for people wanting to grown their own food at home,” he said. “This is something a person could do at home if they wanted to. I think I’ve got about the coolest science thing going on in Ohio.”
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