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Provided by: Urban Green Lab |Published on: November 20, 2025
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Synopsis
This resource from Urban Green Lab describes their Mural Project and shows some examples of artwork that informs and inspires people about the food waste issue.
Students will learn about the project's reach, some of the artists and their backgrounds, and some suggestions for reducing food waste.
This resource does an excellent job of showing how people use their passions and talents to spread awareness about issues that are important to them.
This resource is very versatile, as its brevity makes it easy to fit a quick exploration into a class period, and the topic allows for deeper exploration.
Prerequisites
It may benefit students to understand why food waste is a problem on a larger scale.
Differentiation & Implementation
Students in art classes can use these as inspiration for their own mural project or create models on canvas. If teachers have administrative support, students may be able to paint a food waste mural in the cafeteria or another area of the school.
This project can inspire students to audit their own food waste or the food waste in their school. Students can track and analyze the food that is thrown away in the school cafeteria by having students put food items in a separate bin.
To help students understand the connections between food waste and climate change, teachers may want to use this resource in conjunction with a lesson like this one.
Teachers can use this resource to make connections to the Sustainable Development Goals, like SDG 2, Zero Hunger, or SDG 13, Climate Action.
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