Solve It: Food Waste
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This month, Solve It is all about food waste! Each Solve It includes these resources:
A short video that teachers can share with their students to introduce the challenge
A teacher video will provide some background and demonstrate an activity that can be used to launch the challenge.
A template that describes the engineering design process and includes some guiding questions for each of the steps and additional resources.
And connections to the real world featuring one of our STEM Pro Live! episodes.
The goal is to provide the teachers and students an opportunity to collaboratively design solutions to problems that align to their curriculum with real-world applications.
We would love for you to share what standards you are addressing and some of the solutions your students came up with by emailing us at STEMinfo@maricopa.gov or in the comment section below!
Student Video:
The Challenge: To research the type and amount of food currently being thrown away at your school and design a solution that helps to reduce, reuse, or recycle the waste to minimize how much is going to a landfill.
Teacher Video:
Watch the Solve It Student video with your students to kick-off this challenge.
STEM Pro Live! with Steadfast Farm
Students at any age enjoy watching something grow from a tiny seedling into a larger plant. It's especially fun if you get to actually enjoy the spoils of your labor by growing fruits and vegetables. As you'll learn in this STEM Pro Live!, when it comes to gardening and growing, you get what you give. Meaning, plants require proper care and nurturing to grow, produce and provide nutrition. In this day and age, food is readily available at the grocery store, farmers markets, and specialty shops but do we know what is involved to get it there? This month we met with professional farmers from Steadfast Farm - a local farm that provides fruits, vegetables and flowers to local consumers. You'll learn about the organic practices they use to grow the produce that we consume daily!
Engineering Design Process: Food Waste
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