Think Before You Eat: How Can We Reduce Plastic Pollution?
Overview
The lessons in this project were developed as part of a collaborative effort between the Oregon Department of Education - Oregon Healthy Schools grant, and Multnomah ESD. Educators designed projects that integrated health or physical education standards with either math or science standards.
Project Summary:
The project, “Think Before You Eat” is designed to provide students with a voice to be a change agent for their future environment and community. The motto for this unit, “If we know better, we do better.”
Students will learn how plastic not only affects our earth's environment but also the harm it can have on us as individuals through the food chain. Students will identify these issues and develop new ways to create healthier alternatives for everyone by reducing plastic pollution. If we use less plastic, we eat less plastic. Students will create awareness in order to impact their communities.
The project, “Think Before You Eat” is designed to provide students with a voice to be a change agent for their future environment and community. The motto for this unit, “If we know better, we do better.”
Students will learn how plastic not only affects our earth's environment but also the harm it can have on us as individuals through the food chain. Students will identify these issues and develop new ways to create healthier alternatives for everyone by reducing plastic pollution. If we use less plastic, we eat less plastic. Students will create awareness in order to impact their communities.
Essential Questions:
How does plastic get into our food?
How can we eat less plastic?
Why is it important to make healthier choices for the environment and our bodies?
Learning Objectives:
1. Students will learn the effects plastic has on our nutritional health and how we are eating plastic through our food chain.
2. Students will learn the different ways plastic impacts our environment and develop solutions through the decision making process to reduce their community’s plastic pollution in order to eat less plastic.