Impacts of Feeding the World

Duration: 120 minutes

Grade Levels: 6-10

Explore the social, economic, and environmental impacts of our current food system, including food waste, food deserts, agricultural land use, and the environmental impacts of diet choices.
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Lesson Plan

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Grade Levels: 6-10

Duration: 120 min

Concepts/Skills: Analyzing & Interpreting Data, Earth & Space Science, Flipside Science, Obtaining & Evaluating Information

Objectives: Students will:

  • Explore several issues surrounding our current food system, including food waste, food deserts, agricultural land use, and the environmental impacts of diet choices.
  • Learn more about how food sustainability and environmental issues are impacting people and habitats around the world.

Climate Standards Connections

Next Generation Science Standards
Grade Performance Expectation Description
6-8 MS-ESS3-4 Construct an argument supported by evidence for how increases in human population and per-capita consumption of natural resources impact Earth’s systems.
Climate Change Connections human impact
Clarification Statement & Assessment Boundary Examples of evidence include grade-appropriate databases on human populations and the rates of consumption of food and natural resources (such as freshwater, mineral, and energy). Examples of impacts can include changes to the appearance, composition, and structure of Earth’s systems as well as the rates at which they change. The consequences of increases in human populations and consumption of natural resources are described by science, but science does not make the decisions for the actions society takes.