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Description
Let's Shrink Food Waste Mountain is a short and informative video that explains how wasted food in our homes, schools, restaurants and communities has a negative effect on the environment. Filled with data and facts, the video explores the idea that wasted food also wastes the resources that were used to manufacture and deliver the food to our tables. It also explains that wasted food creates methane gas as it decomposes contributing to climate change. The video demonstrates the steps to complete a Family Food Waste Audit and strategies to shrink one's own personal food waste.
The resource is part of an action toolkit that includes other videos and activities to further explore the topic of food waste.
General Assessment
What skills does this resource explicitly teach?
The video teaches the students how to complete a Family Food Waste Audit.
Recommendation of how and where to use it
Let's Shrink Food Waste Mountain is an engaging video that can be used in a variety of settings from kindergarten to Grade 6. It addresses outcomes related to climate change, human impact on the environment and exploring habitats and could also provide an extension activity when discussing nutrition.
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Themes Addressed
Air, Atmosphere & Climate (1)
- Climate Change
Citizenship (1)
- Sustainable Consumption
Human Health & Environment (1)
- Quality of Life
Waste Management (2)
- Solid Waste Disposal
- Source Reduction
