Recycle, Compost, and Food Rescue

Sustainability connections to the CAS:

• A range of different organisms lives in different places.

Lessons and Activities:

Composting

A Little Food, Is A Lot K-2

Food Waste Hurts Our World 3-5

Sustainability connections to the CAS:

• Organisms have unique and diverse life cycles.
• Being part of a group helps animals obtain food, defend themselves and cope with changes.
• Different organisms vary in how they look and function because they have different inherited information; the environment also affects the traits that an organism develops.

Lessons and Activities:

A Little Food, Is A Lot K-2

Food Waste Hurts Our World 3-5

Sustainability connections to the CAS:

• Organisms have both internal and external structures that serve various functions.

Lessons and Activities:

A Little Food, Is A Lot K-2

Food Waste Hurts Our World 3-5

Sustainability connections to the CAS:

• Matter cycles between air and soil and among plants, animals and microbes as these organisms live and die.

Lessons and Activities:

What is composting?

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

A Little Food, Is A Lot K-2

Food Waste Hurts Our World 3-5

Sustainability connections to the CAS:

• Organisms and populations of organisms are dependent on their environmental interactions both with other living things and with nonliving factors.
• Ecosystems are dynamic in nature; their characteristics can vary over time. Disruptions to any physical or biological component of an ecosystem can lead to shifts in all of its populations.
• Biodiversity is the wide range of existing life forms that have adapted to the variety of conditions on Earth, from terrestrial to marine ecosystems.

Lessons and Activities:

Compost analysis

Better Lesson - Recycling K-12

How Much Food Is Wasted Each Year 6-8

Sustainability connections to the CAS:

• Organisms and populations of organisms are dependent on their environmental interactions both with other living things and with nonliving factors.
• Ecosystems are dynamic in nature; their characteristics can vary over time. Disruptions to any physical or biological component of an ecosystem can lead to shifts in all of its populations.
• Biodiversity is the wide range of existing life forms that have adapted to the variety of conditions on Earth, from terrestrial to marine ecosystems.

Lessons and Activities:

Better Lesson - Recycling K-12

How Much Food Is Wasted Each Year 6-8

Sustainability connections to the CAS:

• Organisms and populations of organisms are dependent on their environmental interactions both with other living things and with nonliving factors.
• Ecosystems are dynamic in nature; their characteristics can vary over time. Disruptions to any physical or biological component of an ecosystem can lead to shifts in all of its populations.
• Biodiversity is the wide range of existing life forms that have adapted to the variety of conditions on Earth, from terrestrial to marine ecosystems.

Lessons and Activities:

Better Lesson - Recycling K-12

How Much Food Is Wasted Each Year 6-8

Sustainability connections to the CAS:

• Organisms use matter and energy to live and grow.
• Organisms interact with the living and nonliving components of the environment to obtain matter and energy.
• Matter and energy necessary for life are conserved as they move through ecosystems.
• Organisms interact in groups to benefit the species.

Lessons and Activities:

Food Waste Warrior 9-12