Essential Questions
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Enduring Understandings
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Activities
- Dirt: It's What's for Dinner: This lesson, take from the Nutrition Unit, invites students to recognize their power as individuals to choose what goes into their bodies. By analyzing a McDonald's strawberry milkshake, tracing their own meals, and following Michael Pollan's path of establishing their own "food rules," students begin to engage in the political process through the simple act of eating.
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- Food Fight: This lesson offers students an opportunity to make a change in their community through their food choices. By comparing industrial food systems to local food systems, examining issues including Genetically Modified Organisms, the economics of organic agriculture, and sustainable farming, students are challenged to come up with solutions to the environmental, economic and social crises in our current food system.
IGS Unit - Food Fight | |
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Quotes for Food Debate | |
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Student Action Projects
- Letters to the Editor
- School Presentation
- Student workshops
- Fundraiser
- Service Learning Projects
Resources
- The Food Project: www.thefoodproject.org
- Organic Industry Structure: https://www.msu.edu/~howardp/organicindustry.html