Let's create continuous conversations about climate change education: Spreading the Sediment of Science!
Food for Thought
Provided by: Educated Choices Program |Published on: April 17, 2023
Lesson Plans Grades 6-8, 9-12
Synopsis
- In this resource, students will learn how our food choices impact the environment, our health, and animals.
- This resource features a video, quiz, discussion questions, lesson plans, and other related resources for students in grades 6-12 and a video with discussion questions and resources for adults.
Subjects: Social Studies, Biology, Health
Authors: Educated Choices Program
Region: Global
Languages: English
Teaching Materials
Positives
- The Next Steps Toolkit is available in both English and Spanish and includes recipes, podcasts, book links, articles about inspiring people, and a variety of other resources that are relatable to young people.
- The videos are thorough and engaging, with helpful graphs, charts, and graphics.
- The connections to cultural differences are important for students to consider when thinking about the differences in the diets of various cultures.
Additional Prerequisites
- To access this resource, first click "Book Now" or "Get Access," then fill out the short survey to gain access to the links and passwords (either through email or directly through the site).
- Be sure to check your spam folder for the initial email with passwords and signup information.
- The videos with captions are available towards the bottom of the page.
Differentiation
- Give students the opportunity to explore the Next Steps Toolkit in order to access recipes and other resources surrounding this topic.
- Preview the two lesson plans and see how they can be incorporated or adjusted to the appropriate grade level and focus for your classroom.
- Use the online follow-up quiz to assess students' understanding of concepts presented in the video.
- Using the Next Steps Toolkit, ask students to read about one inspiring person with a plant-based lifestyle and write a short essay describing the person's efforts and motivations.
- Nutrition, bioethics, and organic chemistry students can focus on the primary research quoted in the resource and the molecular reasons for the connections made between certain food molecules and diseases.
- Biology, ecology, and environmental sciences classes can focus on the land use, energy, and water wasted when we grow food to feed livestock, in addition to the extra greenhouse gases that come from industrial livestock production.
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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.
All resources can be used for your educational purposes with proper attribution to the content provider.
