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Food and Farming
Trace one meal back to the ground it came out of.
1 week
The same topic, four ways
Grades 3 to 5
Read the labels: where did tonight's dinner come from?
🌍 Social Studies📚 Reading🧭 Life Skills
Grades 6 to 8
Food miles, seasons and what is actually cheaper.
🌍 Social Studies🔢 Math🧭 Life Skills
Grades 9 to 10
Yields, land use and the trade-offs nobody escapes.
🔬 Science🌍 Social Studies✏️ Writing
Build it together: Where did dinner come from
What you need
- tonight's ingredients
- their packaging
- a world map or a phone
Steps
- Lay out every ingredient with its label.
- Find the country of origin for each one.
- Mark them on a map and add up the distance.
- Plan one meal that would travel less. Cook it tomorrow.