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VIDEO RESOURCES Del Monte Production video, includes environmental and social issues http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wVsQQ1eWRw&feature=related Home made video by college students to give students tips for conservation. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdDSw4EeC_o&NR=1
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VIDEO RESOURCES Del Monte Production video, includes environmental and social issues http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wVsQQ1eWRw&feature=related Home made video by college students to give students tips for conservation. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdDSw4EeC_o&NR=1 Change the world in 5 minutes a day – at school (made by middle school kids in Australia) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oROsbaxWH0M&feature=related 10 ways to help the environment (animation) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvCUEagudHY&NR=1&feature=fvwp Charlie Chipmunk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryltq9-EFDA (I dare you to not sing this catchy song the rest of the day!)
Do your best always. Wednesday 10/3 • Classwork: • ‘What did your lunch cost the Earth?’ activity • (solo or w/ a partner, due Friday 10/5) Do Now: The saving of resources is called ______. Give three examples of fossil fuel: Trapping of heat by carbon dioxide and other gases in the air is called the _____________ _____________. Focus: Our environment surrounds us. Its health directly effects our health.
What did your lunch cost the Earth? • Lifestyle choices made everyday have some impact on the environment. Many of those impacts are indirect and therefore less obvious than direct effects. • The types of food people eat each day have many implications on the health of the environment. • By choosing foods that have a low impact on our environment we in turn will create a healthier environment in which to grow the food; create local jobs and industry, and have a healthier diet.
What did your lunch cost the Earth? Students use colored pencils and construction paper to create a flow chart poster that demonstrates the path a popular food item takes from the farm to the lunch tray. Along the path pollution, water use and electric use is highlighted to show how much impact the process has on our environment.
Environmental Health is the state of overall wellness of a persons total surroundings. Therefore, the condition of a persons surroundings directly effects that persons wellness.
What did my lunch cost the earth? • Students will: • Follow some foods and its packaging from its source to the consumer, Choose 1: • Strawberries from Chile • Beef from Florida • Coffee from Kenya • Identify the impact of this process on the environment, use red squiggles to represent pollution , blue squiggles to represent water use and yellow electric bolts to represent electricity use. • On the back of your page recommend three (3) possible habit changes that could, benefit the environment. • Due Monday 10/21