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In Unit 4, students make connections between the foods they consume, their food environments, and the global food system. They research a food they eat regularly to learn its place in the global food system. Students play a game to learn how the global food system impacts people and the planet, including climate change. Students have a dialogue about the benefits and challenges of the global food system when making food choices.
For the digital project, students survey their community to determine which food issue is of most concern and what actions people are willing to take to support their community.
Enduring Understandings:
The global food system produces and distributes food from around the world during all seasons.
The current global food system provides food security for some people, but not everyone. It also contributes to climate change, which harms all people and the planet.
Food decisions are complex. Everyone can consider the impacts on people and the planet, and make the most sustainable decisions available to them.
One of the first tasks was focused on the idea of how the global food system impacts us by researching a food we eat often that comes from far away.
They researched how the food gets to them and think about how getting this food from a global source impacts people and the planet. They considered what challenges the global food system might create in the discussion board.
Then, they learned about how the global food system contributes to climate change and how climate change impacts agriculture. Through the Play and Discuss: Global Harvest Game activity, students learnes about the connections between the global food system, cities, food security, and sustainability.
They continued to learn about these connections by reading their peers’ posts in the From Global to Local discussion board and contributing new perspectives based on their experiences playing the game.
Here you can see one of the reflections:
Food, Cities, and Our Future - Unit 4 - Workbook - Template 80.pdf
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DIGITAL PROJECT
DIGITAL PROJECT
It helped students learn how they can influence their community to act locally and address food security issues globally.
Students surveyed community members to learn which food security issue is most important in their city and what actions their community members could take to address the issue.
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Students created an infographic to share findings and recommended actions.
They learned new ways to persuade people in our city to increase food security as they replied to their peers in the Food Security Issues Survey discussion.
Tarragona's Food Issues Survey.pdfFOOD SECURITY ISSUE (1).pdfInfografía Álbum de Recortes Datos Collage Rosa y Azul.pdfPage updated
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