Watch, Read, and Note: Food Waste
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- Points 14
- Submitting a website url
Overview
The purpose of this activity is to help you learn more about issues related to food waste and solutions to this global problem.
Watch
Open, Copy, and Save the Study Guide to your Google Drive. Complete the study guide as you watch the following videos:
Tristram Stuart: The global food waste scandal
Stopping Food Waste in America
Read
Click on the links below to open and read the following articles. Complete the study guide as you read, and then submit the study guide using a Google Link.:
- From Farm to Fridge to Garbage Can
- Tossing Out Food In The Trash? In Seattle, You'll Be Fined For That
- Food Recovery Hierarchy
- Reducing Food Waste at Home
- Composting
Licenses and Attributions
- Video The Global Food Waste Scandal by Tristram Stuart, TED is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- Video "Stopping food waste in America" by PBS NEWSHOUR is copyrighted, All rights reserved.
- Reading From Farm to Fridge to Garbage Can by Tara Parker-Pope is copyrighted, All rights reserved.
- Reading "Tossing Out Food In The Trash? In Seattle, You'll Be Fined For That" by Amy Radil, NPR is copyrighted, All rights reserved.
- Readings Food Recovery Hierarchy, Reducing Food Waste at Home, and Composting at Home by Environmental Protection Agency are in the Public Domain
Rubric
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CCR Language Anchor 1: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
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CCR Anchor 2: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.
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CCR Reading Anchor 1: Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it; cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text. (Apply this standard to text of appropriate complexity as outlined by Standard 10.)
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CCR Anchor 2: Determine central ideas or themes of a text and analyze their development; summarize the key supporting details and ideas. (Apply this standard to texts of appropriate complexity as outlined by Standard 10.)
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CCR Reading Anchor 9: Analyze how two or more texts address similar themes or topics in order to build knowledge or to compare the approaches the authors take.
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