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Rethinking Food Waste

Provided by: Educated Choices Program

Videos Grades 9-12

Synopsis

This video-based lesson guides students in exploring how food waste occurs throughout the food system.
Students will learn the impacts of food waste on the environment, and the environmental and social implications of meat and dairy production.
The resource includes a video, lesson plan, guided notes, homework, activities, discussion questions, and a quiz to accompany the video and its topics.

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Subjects: Biology, Civics

Authors: Educated Choices Program

Region: Global

Languages: English

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Teaching Materials

Positives

This video covers a lot of information in a short period of time.
The resource provides guided notes to keep students on task as they watch.

Prerequisites

Teachers will need to create an account to access materials.
Students should know about climate change and its impacts.
Teachers may want to define the term apartheid before students watch the Distribution portion of the video.
If teachers want to give students the link to the video, they should use the provided Student Link so they do not give students access to teaching materials.

Differentiation & Implementation

After hearing about the social implications of CAFOs, students can research other examples of environmental injustice.
After watching, students can do an audit of their personal food waste and then create an action plan for reducing their waste.
If students do not already have a school composting program, they can develop and propose one for the school or set up a classroom compost.
To make art connections, students can create posters warning others not to waste food.

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About the Partner Provider

Educated Choices Program

Educated Choices Program is an academic non-profit organization offering free science-based education programs around the globe discussing the impacts of food choices on human and planetary health. To date, they have reached over 2.6 million students and community members with this valuable and life-changing information and have a proven success rate of nearly 50% in empowering participants to make healthful and environmentally sustainable dietary changes.

Their digital programs are offered in English, Spanish and German and discuss topics including personal health, public health, climate change, pollution, deforestation and their links to animal agriculture. They also discuss alternative proteins and food technologies that hold the power to help reinvent our food system, and they offer practical solutions to help participants move towards a more plant-rich diet.