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NowThis Earth

Author

NowThis Earth

Grades

6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th

Subjects

Social Studies, Economics, Climate Action

Resource Type

Video, 13 minutes, 20 seconds, CC, Subtitles

Regional Focus

North America, United States

Format

YouTube Video

How Dumpster Divers Became Sustainable Heroes

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Synopsis

This video explains the role of dumpster diving in ensuring sustainability, reducing waste, and effecting change.
Students learn about wastage within the retail system, campaigns around dumpster diving, and how they can effect change.

Teaching Tips

Positives

Engaging visuals accompany this video.
It demonstrates the wastage happening in the retail system in America.
It provides information on ways to foster sustainability and prevent wastage.

Additional Prerequisites

Students should be familiar with dumpster diving.

Differentiation

Teachers could use this video in a lesson on sustainability.
Teachers could use from 6:37-7:05 to explain Damaging Out to 6th-8th graders.
Teachers could use this video to open up a discussion about the retail system in the United States and its merits and mistakes.
Click here for an article on food waste and climate change.
Click here for an StC lesson plan on solutions to climate change.

Scientist Notes

The resource explores ways to improve sustainability and food security by reducing food wastages from retail stores in the USA. The dumpster technique has a clear veracity for replication. Thus, this resource is recommended for teaching.

Standards

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College, Career, and Civic Life (C3) Standards

Dimension 2: Economics
- D2.Eco.15.6-8 Explain the benefits and the costs of trade policies to individuals, businesses, and society.

Dimension 4: Taking Informed Action
- D4.7.6-8 Assess their individual and collective capacities to take action to address local, regional, and global problems, taking into account a range of possible levers of power, strategies, and potential outcomes.

Common Core English Language Arts Standards (CCSS.ELA)

Speaking & Listening (K-12)
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.8.2 Analyze the purpose of information presented in diverse media and formats (e.g., visually, quantitatively, orally) and evaluate the motives (e.g., social, commercial, political) behind its presentation.

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