What's Going on in This Graph? - Nebraska Edition
Looking for a flexible way to practice noticing and wondering with your middle school or high school students? Check out this collection of graphs, maps, and charts! Each highlights a FEWSS (food, energy, water, and societal systems) topic and can be used as a focal point for students' sense-making discussions. You can use these as a bell-ringer, anchoring or investigative phenomenon, exit ticket, etc. Additional resources (notice and wonder t-chart template and class slide deck template) are provided to help you and your students get started!
How Can We Reduce Food Waste? – Food Waste Storyline
How Can We Reduce Food Waste is a standards-aligned science unit that helps students understand how environmental conditions affect the growth of organisms, which can then lead to food spoilage and waste.
How Do Athletes Fuel Their Body? - Nutrition Storyline
How do Athletes Fuel Their Body? - Nutrition Storyline is a standards-aligned science unit that helps students understand how food (inputs) going into the athlete’s body affect their performance (output).
Feeding a Growing Population - GMOs and Food Security Storyline
Feeding a Growing Population: GMOs and Food Security is a standards-aligned life science unit to help students understand GMOs and their benefits in feeding the future.
The scientist and the citizen alike must make evaluative judgments about the validity of science-related media reports and their implications for people’s own lives and society.
A Framework for K-12 Science Education, p. 71
A collection of NGSS-aligned high school lessons focused on teaching food science in the context of nutrition, preventing food waste, and addressing the challenge of feeding a growing population.