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How to Reduce Waste - School Lunch Project

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    Updated:  31 Oct 2023

Investigate the waste produced from school lunches and create a plan of action to reduce waste with a school lunch waste analysis project.

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    Pages:  6 Pages

  • Curriculum
  • Grades

    Grades:  3 - 5

Curriculum

  • Science 3.7

    Earth and space. The student knows that Earth consists of natural resources and its surface is constantly changing. The student is expected to: (1) explore and record how soils are formed by weathering of rock and the decomposition of plant...

  • Science 3.7(C)

    Explore the characteristics of natural resources that make them useful in products and materials such as clothing and furniture and how resources may be conserved.

  • Science 4.7

    Earth and space. The students know that Earth consists of useful resources and its surface is constantly changing. The student is expected to: (1) examine properties of soils, including color and texture, capacity to retain water, and abili...

  • Science 4.7(C)

    Identify and classify Earth's renewable resources, including air, plants, water, and animals, and nonrenewable resources, including coal, oil, and natural gas, and the importance of conservation.

teaching resource

How to Reduce Waste - School Lunch Project

  • Updated

    Updated:  31 Oct 2023

Investigate the waste produced from school lunches and create a plan of action to reduce waste with a school lunch waste analysis project.

  • Non-Editable

    Non-Editable:  PDF

  • Pages

    Pages:  6 Pages

  • Curriculum
  • Grades

    Grades:  3 - 5

Investigate the waste produced from school lunches and create a plan of action to reduce waste with a school lunch waste analysis project.

Analyze Those Leftovers and Reduce Waste at Lunch

Help your students understand how renewable and nonrenewable resources are going to waste with an eye-opening project. Use these worksheets when investigating the amount of waste generated by your student’s lunch boxes and lunch trays.

Reducing, reusing, and recycling waste is one of the most valuable practices to implement when improving your carbon footprint. Teach your students about better managing their school lunch waste by having them analyze the amount of waste generated at each meal.

Students will:

  • Collate the amount of waste produced at lunch over one week in the table provided
  • Reflect on the impact that their waste would have on the environment
  • Create a plan of action to reduce their waste
  • Conduct the waste collection a second time, measure and compare their waste collection over both weeks
  • Graph the data collected
  • Reflect on their results

This sustainability teaching resource contributes to cross-curricular integration with Mathematics and Data Analysis.

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