Lesson 4: How can we reduce the amount of trash produced by school lunches?

Cover of Lesson 4.
Unit 4 of Taking a Bite Out of Lunchroom Waste Curriculum

We share our ideas with each other and our community partner about how to reduce the amount of trash produced in our school lunchrooms. We talk about the results of our lunchroom audit. We decide which ideas, for reducing our lunchroom trash, we want to research. We build a plan and do the research for a feasibility report to determine the cost of changing what we do in the lunchroom.

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Lesson 4: How can we reduce the amount of trash produced by school lunches?
Education Tags:
Marine Debris Topics:  
• Types and Sources  
• How to Help  
Audience:  
• Grade 3-5  
• Grade 6-8  
• Grade 9-12  
Subject:  
• Math  
• Language Arts  
• Earth Science  
Special Categories:  
• Working with Data  
• Cleanups & Waste Audits  
• Class Discussion  
NGSS Disciplinary Core Ideas:  
• ESS3: Earth and Human Activity  
NOAA Regions:   • Great Lakes

For citation purposes, unless otherwise noted, this article was authored by the NOAA Marine Debris Program.

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