Carbon Cafe Demonstration
Overview
Educators will use the Carbon Cafe food cubes to initiate a conversation about making better food choices for the health of our environment, through developing an understanding of relative carbon footprints of various foods.
Activity Type:
Lesson
Target Grade Level:
6-8, 9-12
Estimated Duration:
30 minutes
Topics:
Food Systems
Possible Connections to NGSS |
Performance Expectations MS-LS2-3: Develop a model to describe the cycling of matter and flow of energy among living and nonliving parts of an ecosystem. MS-LS1-5: Construct a scientific explanation based on evidence for how environmental and genetic factors influence the growth of organisms. MS-ESS3-5: Ask questions to clarify evidence of the factors that have caused the rise in global temperatures over the past century. HS-LS4-5: Evaluate the evidence supporting claims that changes in environmental conditions may result in (1) increases in the number of individuals of some species, (2) the emergence of new species over time, and (3) the extinction of other species. HS-ESS2-4: Use a model to describe how variations in the flow of energy into and out of Earth’s systems result in changes in climate. |
