Combatting Food Waste Lesson
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Provided by: Great Lakes Now|Published on: October 16, 2024
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Synopsis
- This multi-week lesson includes several activities for students to explore food waste, its impacts, and possible solutions.
- Students will watch a video and read an article about efforts in Cleveland to reduce food waste, research local efforts to combat food waste, bake with minimal ingredients, and compare food storage methods.
Subjects: Biology
Authors: Great Lakes Now, Detroit PBS
Region: Ohio, MI-Upper Peninsula
Languages: English
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Positives
- The 4 Notes Summary Protocol is a handy procedure that teachers can use for other note-taking activities outside of this lesson.
- Students will love the hands-on baking activity to demonstrate limiting reactants.
Prerequisites
- The portion of the video about food waste begins at 9:30.
- Teachers should refer to the Introduction section for a list of topics students should be familiar with.
- Some students may benefit from having a formal definition of the terms composting and circular economy.
- If students are interviewing and contacting local business owners, teachers may want to call ahead of time.
- Teachers should know of any food allergies in the class and plan accordingly for the baking activity.
Differentiation & Implementation
- Depending on class length, teachers may want to assign the article as homework and begin the class the following day with discussion and activities.
- Teachers can have information for each of the food-related businesses in their city available for students to look at when they start their research project.
- To help students prepare to interview local business owners, teachers can hold practice interviews and help students generate a list of relevant interview questions.
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