Lesson:
3/5
Composting vs. Landfill
Summary:
In this lesson, students explore the environmental hazards of landfills and prepare a soup using parts of food that would have otherwise been discarded.
Student Learning Goals & Objectives:
- Learn howto utilize food scraps to prevent personal food waste.
- Understand what happens when you introduce food to landfills.
- Learn how to make vegetable stock.
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Teaching Notes:
- Before offering this lesson, educators may want to first teach the skills covered in the Knife Safety and How To: Cut Vegetables lessons.
- This lesson is written using a “pay-it-forward” approach for cooking soup stock: the previous class of students prepares the stock for the upcoming class. For the first set of students, our recommendation is to have the stock already prepared before the lesson.
