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Food Chains of Florida * farming transportation water management chemicals * SC.4.L.17.3 : Trace the flow of energy from the Sun as it is transferred along the food chain through the producers to the consumers. Interdependence

  • producer, consumer


  • systems, cycles, monitoring, sensors


  • farming, agriculture, machinery, chemicals, weather
  • food processing - harvesting, packing, frozen, cans, preservation
  • food distribution - transportation, refrigeration, storage, warehouse, distribution center, grocery stores, shipping, air freight
  • food preparation - commercial restaurants, personal


global food supply * sustainability


agricultural engineering


Supporting learning...

SC.4.L.17.3 : Trace the flow of energy from the Sun as it is transferred along the food chain through the producers to the consumers. Interdependence * Food Chains of Florida


K-8 Engineering Open Online Learning Experience

? mastery, competence, coverage ? references for educators, good information for learners - essential questions ? educator / facilitator notes - standards

Farm to table

After completing the interactive student tutorial Food Chains of Florida * farming transportation water management chemicals *


Look into the engineering in the food chain for feeding people


learning outcomes

questions ? sequence, connections

  • activity - description, resources, questions, deliverables

Intro to engineering * engineering design process * scientific method * What is Agricultural Engineering? Students at Iowa State University talk about their aspirations and expectations as agricultural engineers.* What do agricultural engineers do?


Measurements and units * growing crops, grazing cows, shipping, preparing

Spatial visualization

Engineering fundamentals * problem solving * question formulation technique

Applied math * quantities, costs, salaries

Systems * farm, food processing, grocery store, restaurant, home cooking

Simulation, models, augmented and virtual reality * failure analysis

Meet the engineers * agricultural, SWEnext * Agricultural Engineers do a lot of activities that contribute towards the management of our food and water supply. These activities involve designing machines used for farming, controlling our water supply by irrigation, and processing our food products.

Engineering challenges * feeding the world

Share what you know * understand apply create PSA

Lifelong learning *


Learn more...

  • SWENext Newsletter Archives * k-8 October 2018 Discover the world of Agricultural Engineering * Meet students majoring in Agricultural Engineering


Standards * SC.4.L.17.3 : Trace the flow of energy from the Sun as it is transferred along the food chain through the producers to the consumers. Interdependence