(
课件网) Unit 1 SCIENCE AND SCIENTISTS To know some background information about Food Computers; To get more detailed information about Food Computers by watching a video; To express your ideas about Food Computers. Applications of science What field is science applied to? Caleb Harper of MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) in the USA has invented a Food Computer, which he thinks will transform farming. Food Computers 1. Complete the paragraph with the words in the box. open source, humidity, growing conditions, download the plans, monitors and tracks, important component A Food Computer is a box in which you can grow plants. Within this box, the temperature, _____, light, and water for the plants are carefully controlled. This makes it easy to tweak the _____ for the plants humidity growing conditions Before watch to optimise their flavour and produce more nutrition. One _____ of the Food Computer is the "brain". It _____ the data for each plant. It then creates a digital footprint—a record—of how the plants were grown. This data packet can be sent to other Food Computer farmers to help them grow better food. The technology for Food Computers is _____. This means that anyone in the world can _____ and make their own Food Computers. important component monitors and tracks open source download the plans open source, humidity, growing conditions, download the plans, monitors and tracks, important component 1. Fill in the blanks with the correct amounts by writing the letters A-G. 1. There is _____ of the nutrition in things that we eat today versus _____ years ago. 2. We're creating ____ times more nutrient-dense produce. 3. What would you be capable of if you had _____ more nutrition? C A 2 or 3 B 10 C a hundred D a billion E 50% F 200% G $1500 B A F While watch 4. We've created about ___ food computers and we put them in a bunch of schools around Boston. 5. You can build your own home Food Computer for as little as ___. 6. The biggest thing that I could accomplish with my work in my lifetime is creating ____more farmers. D A 2 or 3 B 10 C a hundred D a billion E 50% F 200% G $1500 G E 2. Answer the following questions using the information from the video. 1. What can we do with the food we grow, knowing that the flavour is biochemical? 2. Why did Harper want to make the project open source? 1. If you had the time and materials, would you build your own Food Computer? Why or why not? If yes, what would you grow in a Food Computer? Why? 2. How might Food Computers be used to help solve the problem of hunger around the world? Discuss the following questions in groups. After watch Write a passage to express your ideas of “How might Food Computers be used to help solve the problem of hunger around the world?”.“食物计算机”将养活你？ 开放式农业计划与食物计算机 麻省理工学院开放式农业计划由麻省理工学院媒体实验室的Caleb Harper成立于2015年。开放式农业计划起源于麻省理工学院的城市农场项目。 ... ...
