Atlanta Problem-Based Learning

Four-photo collage showing a classroom-based STEM and nutrition education workshop. The top-left image shows participants seated at desks while an instructor presents slides at the front of a classroom. The top-right image shows participants gathered around a table as an instructor demonstrates a hands-on activity using microscopes and food-related samples. The bottom-left image shows a participant looking through a microscope while others observe nearby. The bottom-right image provides a close-up view of the demonstration table with a microscope, sample containers, and instructional materials. The collage highlights interactive learning, scientific observation, and hands-on professional development activities.

Atlanta Problem-Based Learning

Funding Partner: Time2Give
Principal Investigator: Carrie Meyers

Project Outline

FCR-STEM partnered with Time2Give to write a summer camp AgSTEM integrated curriculum that focuses on the global issue of food insecurity. The curriculum was implemented in the summer of 2022 with Atlanta-based middle school students. The curriculum provides a Problem-Based Learning opportunity that delivers a long-term investigation through building code that runs sensors in an aquaponics system while increasing critical thinking skills and computational thinking. Students are challenged to create solutions to help alleviate some of the issues communities face due to food insecurity.