This resource is a part of the Climate Science and Food Systems Traveling Trunk

Telling the Story of the Food System

Overview

The lesson centers on exploring the connection between food and climate, inviting students to consider how climate change can shape the foods they love and the communities that produce them. Through stories, discussion, and creative expression, students investigate the real-world impacts of a changing climate and share their insights in a collective class showcase.

Activity Type:

Lesson

Target Grade Level:

3-5, 6-8, 9-12

Estimated Duration:

25 minutes

Topics:

Food Systems

Possible Connections to NGSS

Performance Expectations

K-LS1-1: Use observations to describe patterns of what plants, animals and humans need to survive.

3-LS4-3: Construct an argument with evidence that in a particular habitat some organisms can survive well, some less well and some not at all.

4-LS1-1: Construct an argument that plants and animals have internal and external structures that function to support survival, growth, behavior, and reproduction.

5-LS1-1: Support an argument that plants get the materials they need for growth chiefly from air and water.

5-ESS3-1: Combine and obtain information about ways individual communities use science ideas to protect Earth’s resources and environment.

MS-LS1-5: Construct a scientific explanation based on evidence for how environmental and genetic factors influence the growth of organisms.

MS-LS1-6: Construct a scientific explanation based on evidence for the role of photosynthesis in the cycling of matter and flow of energy into and out of organisms.

MS-LS2-4: Construct an argument supported by empirical evidence that changes to physical or biological components of an ecosystem affect populations.

MS-ESS3-4: Construct an argument supported by evidence for how increases in human population and per-capita consumption of natural resources impact Earth’s systems.

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-ESS3-1: Construct an explanation based on evidence for how the availability of natural resources, occurrence of natural hazards, and changes in climate have influenced human activity.