Art Project:
- Have the students look in their lunches to see if they have anything that may negatively impact
the environment. Make a class collage out of the clean wrappers in their lunches, and ask the
students if they think the collage could be even smaller the next day.
- Students may prepare two collages, one labeled harmless, biodegradable materials and the
other with harmful non biodegradable materials, each demonstrating the appropriate materials
from student’s lunch. Display the two collages in a place easily visible to the rest of the school.
Together as a class, students can write an explanation of why using the biodegradable materials
is better for the environment. This activity may best be suited for 2nd grade and up.
I found this Art project online @ http://rprogress.org/education/k-12pdf/foodandyou.pdf
In closing, ask the students how they think they can make their Footprint smaller with what they
do and eat. Students could suggest eating a few meals a week that cause less waste.
This activity can be adapted for homeschoolers. I feel like, even though, my kids eat three homemade/cooked meals a day, I also buy small chip bags, we premake pb&j's and freeze them- they have a sandwich bag, paper plates, napkins, paper towels are all things we can reduce by using reusables.
We watch documentaries of people flying all over the world and lecturing us on our footprint, seems kind of hypocritical to the children. Making it aware that we do accumulate unnecessary waste we can become a more conscious bunch.
I found this Art project online @ http://rprogress.org/education/k-12pdf/foodandyou.pdf
In closing, ask the students how they think they can make their Footprint smaller with what they
do and eat. Students could suggest eating a few meals a week that cause less waste.
This activity can be adapted for homeschoolers. I feel like, even though, my kids eat three homemade/cooked meals a day, I also buy small chip bags, we premake pb&j's and freeze them- they have a sandwich bag, paper plates, napkins, paper towels are all things we can reduce by using reusables.
We watch documentaries of people flying all over the world and lecturing us on our footprint, seems kind of hypocritical to the children. Making it aware that we do accumulate unnecessary waste we can become a more conscious bunch.