Crossword on Sustainable Food Consumption
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Grades5, 6, 7, 8Chemistry, Biology, Earth and Space Sciences, Health
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What it is
- This online crossword activity involves terms associated with the environmental impacts of food production and sustainable food choices.
- Students can learn some interesting facts while playing this interactive crossword puzzle.
Teaching tips
Positives
- The prompts for each term include both a definition and a fill-in-the-blank sentence.
- If students get stuck, they can use up to eight hints to reveal a letter.
Additional Prerequisites
- Students should know the states of matter and that our atmosphere is made up of gases.
- Students should be familiar with the terms emissions, atmosphere, agriculture, livestock, global warming, fossil fuels, and protein.
Differentiation
- This game can either serve as a review of a lesson on greenhouse gases and agriculture, or can be used as an introduction to see what students already know.
- After doing this crossword, students in health classes can talk about the importance of protein in a diet and can list alternatives to beef and other meats, including those mentioned in the crossword and from students' own ideas or research.
- Students in science classes can use this crossword to launch or review a lesson on cellular respiration, nutrition, the carbon cycle, energy losses as you move up a trophic pyramid, or the impacts of eating higher on the food chain.
- Social studies classes can discuss the economic, health, and moral issues related to industrial livestock production, and the industry's role in decision-making regarding subsidies, incentives, regulations, or marketing of those products.
- The terms in the crossword should be defined for English language learners prior to playing the game.
From the scientist review
This resource is a crossword puzzle that has words related to sustainable food consumption. The clues have an associated picture. Each clue also has a sentence where the answer fills in the blank space in the sentence. The game would be a good activity to supplement a lesson but does not provide information beyond definitions. This resource is recommended for teaching.
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