LIC501 Fall 2014

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.

This is the second video. It shows what can happen to plastics beyond recycling. A very cool video

This is an awesome video. Showing what else you can do with recycling plastics. this is one of two videos.

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Jaime Rae, 15, was recently named the second-place winner in From the Bow Seat's 2014 Ocean Awareness Student Contest. Her six-minute video about plastic pollution in oceans beat out hundreds of other entries from around the world.

Lessons on geography using Montessori methods.

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.

The United States doesn't have the highest obesity rate in the Americas (that dubious honor goes to Mexico), but over one-third of US adults are currently obese, and that number isn't dropping. It's a pretty eye-opening statistic, especially when compared with data from countries like Japan and India, where obesity rates fall below five percent.

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.

Photographer documentary on marine plastic

20 years later, yellow plastic rubber ducks are still appearing on our beaches having been part of a consignment of 28,000 of them lost at sea from a ship on its way from Hong Kong to the US.

through this new + innovative use of recovered ocean plastic, we hope to show how design can be used to tackle environmental problems. we're not saying that the solution to the ocean plastic problem is making bottles out of trash, but by doing so we can prove that there are alternatives to using virgin materials-like PCR plastic, which we use in all of our bottles.

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.

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.

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.

Resources for global educators, including photographs of people around the world, teaching activities, templates, and more.