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Sustainable Food Solutions: Weighing the Pros and Cons Lesson PlanSustainable Food Solutions: Weighing the Pros and Cons Lesson Plan
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California Academy of Science
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6th - 10th
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Sustainable Food Solutions: Weighing the Pros and Cons

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  • Our Hungry Planet Unit (html)
  • Our Hungry Planet Unit Progression (.pdf)
  • Sustainable Food Solutions: Weighing the Pros and Cons (html)
  • Student Worksheet (English)
  • Student Worksheet (Spanish)
  • Student Worksheet (Traditional Chinese)
  • Optional Reading: Diet Change
  • Optional Reading: Vertical Farming
  • Optional Reading: Food Waste
  • Optional Reading: Food Desert
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A growing demand for sustainable food systems comes from schools and even some cities. So what are some solutions? Scholars consider four different ways to approach sustainable food solutions and list the pros and cons of each. The fifth part of a 13-installment unit on Our Hungry Planet encourages critical thinking and interpreting data—important skills for attacking an increasingly important issue.

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CCSS: Adaptable

Concepts

food, food production, food supply, food systems, food sources, food distribution

Additional Tags

science

Instructional Ideas

  • Share a quick video clip about pro/con lists from a popular TV show; clips from Gilmore Girls, Blacklist, and How I Met Your Mother among many others get students in the mood to make their own
  • Think of an additional solution not included to research

Classroom Considerations

  • Read each of the included teacher tool kits before implementing the lesson

Pros

  • Breaks down the lesson into reasonable times for each portion without much down time
  • Encourages thoughtful discussion with the included questions

Cons

  • None

Common Core

SL.6.2 SL.7.2 SL.8.2 SL.9-10.2 RST.6-8.4 RST.9-10.4

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