Bring Aquaponics Into Your Classroom Today

What is Aquaponics?

Aquaponics is the raising of fish and plants in a recirculating ecosystem. The fish waste provides nutrients for the plants. Bacteria and plants help to clean the water for the fish.

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Why is Aquaponics Important?

  • Aquaponics can grow a tremendous amount of food with a fraction of the water that is normally used in soil based agriculture

  • Food can be grown directly in our communities, providing access to nutritious food, creating jobs and eliminating the huge carbon footprint associated with food transportation miles

Aquaponics & Education

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Get Your Students Excited to Learn!

  • Aquaponics is the perfect teaching tool for core STEM subjects like Math, Biology, Chemistry and Engineering

  • Students can study fish, plants and bacteria interacting in a living ecosystem

  • Students can perform water quality tests, measure and track growth rates in fish and plants

  • Economics, Marketing and Nutrition are among the many other areas of study connected with aquaponics

Growing Potential

Whether it’s a repurposed old building or a greenhouse, we can custom design a large scale farm system to expand fish and plant production.

When this happens, students are immersed in a real-life farm environment where they are introduced to many new learning opportunities and skills outside of fish and plants.

In the video to the right, this school in New York had an old barn on their property that they weren’t using. We guided them on refurbishing the interior of the building and then we custom designed and built our 23’x40′ Flourish Farm.

Tour an Aquaponics Farm on a School Campus

Teaching Tools for Educators

Grade 3 – 6 Introductory Curriculum


62 pages – 6 hours of lessons and online course

Grade 3 – 6 Full Curriculum Set


190 Pages – 24 Hours of Lessons – Online Course and Book

Grade 7 – 12 Aquaponic Gardening Book


288 pages, 84 photos and diagrams, soft cover

AquaponicsGardeningEducationSet

Aquaponic Gardening Education Set


Aquaponic Gardening Book with 5.5 hours of Online Instruction

Aquaponic Systems for the Classroom

Aquaponic Systems are our specialty and the best way to teach aquaponics is to have a system right there in your classroom, science lab or in a small greenhouse. We have several options for systems to meet your goals, your space, and your budget.

Aquaponic Systems are our specialty and the best way to teach aquaponics is to have a system right there in your classroom, science lab or in a small greenhouse. We have several options for systems to meet your goals, your space, and your budget.

School Profiles

Let Us Help You Get Started

Our team at The Aquaponic Source is dedicated to making sure your school project is successful. We would like to hear from you so we can make sure you get everything you need when you need it.

We also offer installation and training services where one of our instructors will visit your school, set up your system and provide your teachers and students an aquaponics class! Instruction can be tailored to best fit your needs. We often provide train the trainer sessions or student workshops. We love teaching and seeing the excitement when a system first gets installed. We look forward to hearing from you.

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