On this STEM Pro Live!, you’ll hear about a young company in Tempe, Arizona, that quickly converts food waste to probiotic-like products to help boost plant growth.
We join forces with Chase Purdy, author of “Billion Dollar Burger,” to find out if cell-cultured meat is all it’s cracked up to be.
In this two-day lesson, students will be introduced to several issues related to 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.
During this Food Waste Audit, students will explore their own impact on our food system. Students will brainstorm solutions to reduce their food waste and be challenged to try out their solution!
Are your students ready to tackle a food system issue at home or in their school? The following guide will help you facilitate a structured design challenge in your classroom related to food at home, at school, or in the community.
In this lesson, students will practice rapid ideation—an important step in design thinking—by brainstorming solutions to issues surrounding our current food system.
How do we assess the benefits and drawbacks of various solutions to a problem? To decide how one potential solution compares to another, we have to consider the pros and cons of each from many dimensions, including environmental, social, cultural, and economic.
In this Flipside Science unit, designed for a middle school audience, we’ll explore environmental issues related to the food we grow and eat.
Sustainable Management of Food is a systematic approach that seeks to reduce wasted food and its associated impacts over the entire life cycle, starting with the use of natural resources, manufacturing, sales, and consumption and ending with decisions on recovery or final disposal.
Reducing wasted food will help the United States address climate change, as 20 percent of total U.S. methane emissions come from landfills.
By managing food sustainably and reducing waste, we can help businesses and consumers save money, provide a bridge in our communities for those who do not have enough to eat, and conserve resources for future generations.
The Food Matters Action Kit contains over 70 activities to engage youth in preventing food waste. Activities can be done individually or in a series, in any order that suits learning themes for your class or organization.
