Pick + Chews Data Talk

Data Talk: 5-15 minutes

Grade Levels: 3-12

How does the food we eat impact the environment?
Analyze graphs about three different food groups and consider how you could build a meal that has less impact on our land, air, or water.
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Data Talk

 

Grade Levels: 3-12

Data Talk: 5-15 minutes

Concepts/Skills: Data analysis, visualizations, climate change, sustainability

Objectives:

  • Make observations about a graph.
  • Ask questions about the graphs including how the information is represented, the data itself, and what it means.
  • Reflect on how the food that they eat impacts the environment.

Climate Standards Connections

Next Generation Science Standards
Grade Performance Expectation Description
6-8 MS-LS2-1 Analyze and interpret data to provide evidence for the effects of resource availability on organisms and populations of organisms in an ecosystem.
Climate Change Connections ecosystems
Clarification Statement & Assessment Boundary Emphasis is on cause and effect relationships between resources and growth of individual organisms and the numbers of organisms in ecosystems during periods of abundant and scarce resources.