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Food is the largest single source of waste in the U.S. More food ends up in landfills than plastic or paper. According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 20 percent of what goes into municipal landfills is food. Food waste tipped the scale at 35 million tons in 2012, the most recent year for which estimates are available.

It seems that in our busy life of fast food and convenience, many people have become so disconnected from their food, they don't know where their food actually comes from (or what it is made of!). This is the first article in a series to help kids understand more about our food system.

Food Miles is a website that allows users to calculate how far food has traveled before it gets to the consumer. This would be a great way to exemplify how much we rely on other countries to supply our basic needs. This website emphasizes the significance of globalization to upper elementary students. It is also a wonderful way to integrate sustainability and math into the social studies curriculum. This website will open students eyes to how interdependent the worlds nations are.

In this interdisciplinary lesson, students explore the concept of global interdependence by investigating the origins of the foods they eat. Students will recognize the fact that many of the foods they eat, and the ingredients that go into making them, are produced in other countries. They will speculate about why certain foods are produced in different regions of the world, and what might happen if the production and/or distribution of these goods was to stop.

Food habits are shaped by environment, available ingredients, climate, and even factors like class and income. Though food is first and foremost a basic necessity, it is also a cultural symbol: Sushi is synonymous with Japan, fish and chips conjure up images of Britain, and tacos are associated with Mexico etc.

By teaching children where their food comes from and how it's produced, and by emphasizing local and seasonal eating, we get kids invested in their food choices. "FoodPrints" is a take-off on "carbon footprint". Through the FoodPrints program, children learn about the impact their choices make on their personal health and the health of our planet. Using project-based learning and hands-on experiences with gardening and cooking, we empower children to lead healthy lives and to be stewards of the environment.

Snapshots of families' weekly shop from countries around the world shows the food gulf between nations By Daily Mail Reporter A study of what 30 families living around the world eat in one week shows the huge gulf between the diets of different nations.

Our resource hub is packed with easy-to-access ideas and activities to do in your lessons. We also have interactive Online Field Trips that bring farms and factories to life in the classroom. Designed to support teachers, they will excite primary-age children about where food comes from, and how it gets on their plates. Plus, we have recipes, lesson aids and printable downloads, as well as information on upcoming events relevant to teachers, pupils and parents. Finding what you need is easy. Click through to the section you want then filter your search by criteria that include age and topic.

Put the five signs, each with a continent's name written on it, around the room (Europe, Asia, Africa, South America, and North America). Tell young people to think about which of the five continents they believe has the healthiest food choices and the healthiest eating habits and to stand by that continent's sign.

Peter Menzel and Faith D'Aluisio set out to explore just how diverse the eating habits around the globe are, and published a photo album with their discoveries, called the Hungry Planet. The authors visited 30 families in 24 countries, each time photographing them at home, shopping at the market and surrounded by their weekly food purchases.

How many calories do you consume in a day? Is it more or less than the recommended 2,000? How does it compare to the butter-rich 4,900 of a Tibetan monk - or the scant 800 of a Maasai herder in Kenya?

As commercial photographer Gabriele Galimberti was preparing to leave for a trip around the world, his grandmother prepared for him his favorite ravioli, expressing concern about how well he would be fed on his global jaunt. "My grandmother was mostly worried about the food that I was going to eat," remembered Galimberti.

lesson plan examples on food, culture, and society

Rather long but might be useful in shorter version.

How School children Eat Around the World is a nonfiction book aimed at kids aged 9-12 published by Red Deer Press.

Peter Menzel and Faith D'Aluisio traveled the world documenting that most basic of human behaviors - what we eat. Their project, "Hungry Planet," depicts everything that an average family consumes in a given week-and what it costs - laid out in thought-provoking detail.