Climate Heroes Spanish Podcast Series
Podcasts
Grades6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12Civics, Spanish
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What it is
- In this episode of the Duolingo Spanish Podcast, students will hear from Marcelo Sus as he tells the story that inspired him to reduce food waste and hunger in Uruguay.
- Students will learn about the carbon impact of food waste and the intersection between homelessness and climate change.
- The podcast is bilingual, with the host speaking in English and Marcelo in Spanish, and a transcript is provided.
Teaching tips
Positives
- The audio includes ambient sounds during some sections, such as marketplace ambiance.
- The podcast highlights the good that reducing food waste can do, such as saving enough food to feed one hundred people for a day!
Prerequisites
- Teachers may need to play this podcast on a different platform, as it may not load on the Duolingo website.
- If students are listening independently, teachers may want to show them how to change the playback speed.
Differentiation & Implementation
- After listening to the section about carbon footprints, students can use a carbon footprint calculator to see how certain actions contribute to climate change.
- Students can do a food waste audit at their school during lunch. To do this, students can collect food that students are throwing away after lunch, weigh it, and make an action plan for reducing food waste in their school.
- Students can produce their own podcast to detail their food-saving project at school or at home, using this one as inspiration.
- To demonstrate their understanding, students can summarize Marcelo's journey in Spanish. Students can also extend this writing by detailing how they can be a climate hero in their community.
- Students can relate this to the second Sustainable Development Goal, Zero Hunger.
From the scientist review
This resource is a personal narrative of a young person in Uruguay who founded an NGO focused on reducing food waste and the associated carbon emissions. The podcast is clear and rightly highlights the links between food waste, hunger, and climate change. This resource is recommended for teaching.
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