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How Dumpster Divers Became Sustainable Heroes
Provided by: NowThis Earth |Published on: April 27, 2021
Videos Grades 6-8, 9-12
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.
Subjects: Economics
Authors: NowThis Earth
Region: North America, USA - Northeast, United States, New York, New York City
Languages: English
Teaching Materials
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.
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