Food waste in school day 1

Your Name: Jaqueline Pearson

Title of Lesson: Food waste
Grade: 2nd
STANDARDS
CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.2.MD.D.10. Draw a picture graph and a bar graph (with single-unit
scale) to represent a data set with up to four categories. Solve simple put-together, take-apart,
and compare problems 1 using information presented in a bar graph.
K-2-ETS1-1. Ask questions, make observations, and gather information about a situation
people want to change to define a simple problem that can be solved through the development of
a new or improved object or tool.
LESSON SUMMARY/OVERVIEW
This Lesson is to introduce the student about food and how much food they waste daily.
This is a simple lesson about collecting data, regarding how much they eat how and much they
throw away, using both homemade lunches and school provided lunches, seen as equal and not
collectively separate. The data for the entire class of higher thinking is a platform that students
may use to question and are allowed to compare the contrast between the types of lunches data.
After the data was collected, the students will create the visual data representation for
information collected. There are Q&A about the food they ate, the food that was tossed out, and
how hungry they were, per and post the data collection question. As an extended learning
experience, students can take it home to see how much food they eat and don't eat there (only
child eating habits on family).
OBJECTIVES
SWBAT
Collect data about amounts and type of food they ate, and amount and types of food they
throw out
Graph and chart the data along with the class data to create visuals to represent how much
waste as a class was created compared to how much waste they personally created
Answer questions that are possible before data collected and questions after data to
compare the answers

ASSESSMENT/EVALUATION
Collecting of data
Created graph and visuals
Answered question in complete sentience and with proper grammar and punctuation

PREREQUISITE KNOWLEDGE
Write a sentence correctly, with punctuation, correct capitalization, spelling with grade
level accuracy, and grammar
Set up a graph correctly with labels and titles

MATERIALS
Whiteboard/ Markers
Construction paper
Glue
Colors (crayons, markers, pencils)
Handouts with questions
Handout for personal data collection
Handouts for whole class data sheet
Food Waste (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle) by Deborah Chancellor

VOCABULARY/KEY WORDS
Food
Waste
Bar Graph
Data

TEACHING PROCEDURES
Start a few minutes before lunch time as student will get restless talking about food
Ask students to observe what they had for lunch,
What was their lunch,
What they ate and why,
What they didn't eat and why
After lunch and recess passout lunch question handout (Appendix A)
Go through questions together, High functioning students may move ahead if
they choose to
In complete sentences answer questions
Students will need to fill out their lunch data sheet (Appendix B)
Student have 10 minutes to draw or cut out magazine pictures to show what they
had for lunch (color after writing section done)
List what food under two sections: "What was eaten" and "What was not eaten"
Student share data
Create a list of everything eaten and everything not eaten by the students
From there add up all the same items on each side to create a double bar graph
Hand out (Appendix C) Graph paper for the whole class graph
Students copy information gathered onto the graph
Student must correctly label and use data appropriate in the graph
Coloring should be done after graph fully filled out
Construction paper passed out (note all one color so no argument or complaining
about color will happen)

All Appendix are cut and pasted and arranged on construction paper
Finish writing and color
Name Check
Clean up
Read about food waste
Answer questions about food waste in the book and the connection to real life and
the project we did
Lead into tomorrows activities
RESOURCES
WAYS OF THINKING CONNECTION
For extended questions, students can take what they learned in school about how much food they
and their classmates waste and see how much food is wasted in their homes.

Appendix A

Name: ________________________

Date: _________________

What was their lunch?

_______________________________
_______________________________
What they ate and why?
_______________________________
_______________________________
What they didn't eat and why?
_______________________________
_______________________________
Appendix B

Appendix C