Classroom-Ready

Audience: teachers and educators. Use case: find a full curriculum, a buildable kit, or a standards-aligned program you can run in a classroom — most are free and several are explicitly NGSS-, Erasmus+-, or national-framework-aligned.

Aquaponics & hydroponics curricula

• Aquaponics: Farming Fish, Growing Greens (Purdue / Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant) — free 10-lesson NGSS-aligned aquaponics curriculum, grades 9–12.
• Healthier Living Through Hydroponics (Texas A&M AgriLife) — free bilingual (EN/ES) K-12 hydroponics lesson plans and teacher resources.
• Project Feed 1010 (Institute for Systems Biology) — NGSS-aligned food-security aquaponics curriculum plus classroom citizen science.
• Aqu@teach Erasmus+ Aquaponics Curriculum — free blended-learning university/VET curriculum (5 ECTS) plus entrepreneurship module.
• NewTechAqua-IRTA Aquaponic Kit for Schools — free EU Horizon 2020 guide for secondary schools to build two low-cost aquaponics systems.
• Tsinghua IT Grade 5 Textbook — Aquaponics Open-Source System Unit (2024) — Chinese primary textbook unit on open-source aquaponics and feedback control.
• Hong Kong STEAM Aquaponics Teaching Materials — GCCCE-documented secondary curriculum: laser-cut tanks, sensors, servos, data analysis.
• German Sensor-Technology School Guide — ⚠ flagged placeholder; unverified, see Contribute Here.
• Interactive Hydroponics Textbook — ⚠ flagged placeholder; unverified, see Contribute Here.

3D printing & STEM curricula

• Additive Manufacturing Essentials (OpenStax) — free CC-licensed AM textbook for vocational/university teaching.
• 3D Printing: Additive Manufacturing for Everyone (Wikibooks) — free open textbook, no prior experience assumed.
• Open-Source 3-D Printing Course (Michigan Tech) — university course where students build and keep a RepRap printer; free syllabus.
• ACCESS-3DP: 3D Printing Training for Craft Enterprises (Erasmus+ OER) — free six-module CC BY-NC-SA course with trainer guide, multilingual platform.
• Open3D-Education — Brazilian (UFF) OER repository of student-designed, openly licensed 3D-printed teaching aids.
• Prusa Education Program & Printables Educational Projects — free ready-to-use printing projects with lesson plans and beginner Academy courses.

Classroom kits, parts & build projects

• DFRobot BOSON Hydroponics Kit — modular classroom greenhouse kit for coding-driven plant science (K-12/secondary).
• Layers to Leaves: Modular 3D-Printed Hydroponics Components — peer-reviewed CC0 printable tower system for education and research.
• Modular Hydroponic Tower Garden — printable tower plus Arduino controller; suits K-12 and household classrooms.
• Dzakovich Lab Protocols & STL Files — open lab protocols and STLs for a printable modular hydroponics rig.
• Parametric Net Pot / Net Cup — quick win for a first classroom print.
• Printables Hydroponics & Aquaponics Components — free printable parts for class builds.
• Thingiverse Hydroponics & Aquaponics Components — largest free component archive for class builds.
• BAE305 Aquaponics Project (University of Kentucky) — engineering-design capstone model for university courses.
• Simple-Hydroponics-Arduino (Hydruino) — free offline Arduino controller students can configure for grow systems.
• Anmirazik's Aquaponic System — beginner-friendly monitoring build suitable for vocational/university labs.
• Agronaut — open-source AI agronomy agent; usable as a teaching tool for system design and troubleshooting.

School programs & national context (China & South Africa)

• INMED South Africa Adaptive Agriculture & Aquaponics — low-cost modular school aquaponics with a plug-and-play prototype, 7,300+ learners reached.
• Chengdu 'Huiya Farm' School Labor Education Base — class-contracted campus farm extended by a student-built smart irrigation project.
• Haimen 'Golden Thumb' Shared Farm (Jiangsu) — primary-school farm co-managed by classes and families for labor education.
• Nanning Youth 3D Printing Education Events (Guangxi) — school-outreach 3D printing classes and youth competitions.
• Zhangjiajie Rural Teacher 3D Printing Training (Guopei 2025) — national-plan training of rural teachers in classroom fabrication.
• Seven-Ministry K-12 Science & Technology Education Guidelines (2025) — Chinese national directive mandating project-based STEM education; the policy backdrop for the programs above.
• Vertical Farming Project (Open-Source, Student-Led, China) — ⚠ flagged entry; primary source unverified, see Contribute Here.