Food Smarts – Waste Reduction – Kids – Workbook, English

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, recycle, and compost of 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:

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

Curriculum Materials:

• • Instructor guide with lesson plans
  • Printed workbook or PDF for printing handouts