Level 1 Guiding Question: How is food connected to health, society, the environment and me?
Level 1 Investigation 1: Food's Journey
Click on the button below, read the article and answer the question,"How is food connected to health, society the environment and me?"
Level 1 Investigation 2: The Food System
Read the following presentation on "The Food System" and answer the following questions,
1.Name at least 5 steps our food takes to get from the farm to our forks.
2. Take just one ag product (Washington Apples or Broiler Chickens) and list the steps it takes in getting to our tables.
Post your answers on "Google classroom" the Public comment section.
1.Name at least 5 steps our food takes to get from the farm to our forks.
2. Take just one ag product (Washington Apples or Broiler Chickens) and list the steps it takes in getting to our tables.
Post your answers on "Google classroom" the Public comment section.
Level 1 Videos: Understanding our Food Systems
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Level 1 Elaborate: Making your own statement about our Food System
Watch the “FoodSpan Infographic”presentation or one of the provided videos (see above).
Briefly explain each part of the infographic by making your own Google “Slides” presentation. Answer the following questions before you begin making your own Google slides presentation.
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Level 1 Review: Exploring Connections in the Food System
Get a hard copy or print the Food System Connection Cards. Each card lists a part of the food system (on the front) and some of its relationships to other parts (on the back). Take a minute to read your cards. You can work in pairs or in threes.
Form a circle, and hold their cards up so the fronts are visible. Give one participate a ball of string. Ask him or her to state the part of the food system on their card and then toss the ball of string to another person while holding onto the end of the string. As they throw the ball, they should explain how the two parts are connected, for example: “I am a cow. I am connected to water because I drink it, it irrigates my feed crops, and my manure sometimes contaminates it.” Continue until each participant have created a tangled web of connections. You can throw to the same person more than once if there are multiple points of connection. Once the web is complete, introduce events into the food system. For example, if a drought occurs, water should tug on their strings. Participates who felt the tug should explain how they might be affected, then tug on their strings. Others who felt the second tug should explain how they might be affected, and so on. Participates should see that stresses to one part of the system may have cascading consequences throughout the system. Discuss:
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Other Food Connection Cards below:
Level 1 Summary: How well do you know our Food System?
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