Food Smarts – Waste Reduction – Kids – Instructor Guide

Food Smarts Waste Reduction for Kids provides children with a better understanding of how to get away from a take, make, and throw away linear model of food to a circular model of reuse, recycling, and composting food waste through developing cooking and food resource management skills. Lessons can be taught in the classroom or garden in a 5-session workshop series.Each 60-minute lesson includes:

• Body Movement Activity
• Cooking
• Interactive Activities
• Optional Garden Extension

Curriculum Objectives:

• Learn what happens when food is wasted and the importance of reducing food waste
• Increase their appreciation of food, the resources that go into producing it, and the multiple ways it can be used
• Adopt food consumption and utilization behaviors that reduce food waste
• Expand the variety of foods they will eat to overcome limited taste preferences that can lead to food waste
• Learn how to make food to their taste so they are less likely to discard food due to simply not liking it
• Learn how to reuse food scraps and leftovers in the garden and kitchen
• Reinforce and increase capacity for composting food scraps and recycling food packaging

90 pages

Please note – completion of the facilitator training is required to implement this program and order materials.