Unit Plan

Pbs: The Lowdown: Rot and Rubbish: The Rancid Truth About How Much Food We Waste

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Explore the math of worldwide food waste, with focus on percentage, in this infographic from KQED. In the accompanying classroom activity, students predict the percent of food in each of the various categories (e.g., grains, fruit, etc.) that their own families waste, and then compare their predictions with US national averages. Throughout the lesson, they consider relationships among percent, part, and whole.

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Classroom Considerations
  • Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
  • The intended use for this resource is Instructional