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Project Title: Ugly Foods and Hungry People

Mission:

How can we address hunger by reducing food waste? 

Culminating / Take Action Project

Fundraiser to support an organization addressing hunger or food waste.  

What Kids Learn

Did you know that Americans waste about 150,000 tons of food every day? Did you know that one in every six kid in America might not get enough food.  We have enough food to feed everyone in this country yet many people go hungry. In this project you will learn all about what is a food crisis, why we have hungry people in the United States and around the world, why we should care, who is helping and how we can help.  You will then take action by creating food clips to sell and fundraise for an organization that is helping with food waste or helping the hungry. 

Overview

Life Habit Focus: Empathy

Subject: Life science, ELA

Grade: K-2

Topic: Life cycle of a plant, plant parts, effects of sunlight on the earth. what plants need to survive.

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Project Materials

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Teacher's Guide

Materials List

Student Mission Log

Intro + Life Habits
Empathy

Ugly Food Project Overview

Intro & Life Habit Activities

Read:
Build Background

Literacy Lessons

Explore:
Self Directed Online

Take Action:
Hands-On Activities

Ugly Foods Project Overview 3

Take Action
Project Booklet

Aligned Standards

Common Core Reading (CCSS):

  • Informational/NonFiction Standards R.I 1-10 for grades K-2.
  • Writing Standards W1,2,4,5,6,7,9 for grades K-2.
  • Listening and Speaking Standards SL1-SL6. 

NGSS Standards:

  • K-LS1-1: Use observations to describe patterns of what plants and animals (including humans) need to survive. 
  • K-ETS 1-2: Develop a simple sketch, drawing, or physical model to illustrate how the shape of an object helps it function as needed to solve a given problem.
  • K-ESS2-2: Use a model to represent the relationship between the needs of different plants or animals (including humans) and the places they live
  • K-ESS3-3: Communicate solutions that will reduce the impact of humans on the land, water, air, and/or other living things in the local environment.
  • 1-LS1-1: Use materials to design a solution to a human problem by mimicking how plants and/or animals use their external parts to help them survive, grow, and meet their needs.*
  • 1-LS3-1: Make observations to construct an evidence-based account that young plants and animals are like, but not exactly like, their parents.
  • 2-LS-2-1: Plan and conduct an investigation to determine if plants need sunlight and water to grow. 
  • 2-LS4-1: Make observations of plants and animals to compare the diversity of life in different habitats.
  • NGSS SEP: Asking questions,  developing models. 
  • NGSS CC: Cause and Effect, structure and function, stability and change.
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