Just Eat It Food Waste Sustainability Movie Activity Print & Digital

Captivate your students with an eye-opening exploration of just how much food is thrown away in the U.S. and worldwide with this engaging documentary, Just Eat It: A Food Waste Story.

This 75-minute film makes a great addition to any garbage or sustainability unit in your Current Issues, Human Geography, or Environmental Science class.

Student materials come in both print PDF and editable digital Google files.

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Greatness is investigating and solving real-world problems.

It's astounding that an estimated 40% of all food grown and produced in the U.S. is thrown away before it is eaten. Worldwide, it's still 33%. And the vast majority is sent to landfills, creating massive greenhouses gases.

All the while, food insecurity and climate change are two of the biggest problems we face as a world.

How is this possible?

In this film, meet a couple who challenges themselves to eat only discarded food for 6 months and interview experts and activists along the way to help answer the question, "How can we end hunger with the food we already have?"

Included in this complete print-and-go lesson:

• Lesson plan with links and further enrichments ideas
• 2-page student worksheet (print PDF and editable Google Doc)
• Detailed answer key

NOTE: as of the latest update, this movie is available to stream for free and rent/purchase from multiple sources; links are provided, but please check online first or leave me a Q&A to verify before purchasing.

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Want to turn this into a whole unit?

• Plastic & Garbage: a 3-week unit exploring the modern invention of garbage, landfills, and single-use disposables, the effects it is having on our oceans, and how a zero-waste lifestyle can be possible

Looking for more sustainability topics?

These units can be easily integrated into your Current Events, Human Geography, or Environmental Science course

• Water Supply & Pollution: a 3-week unit exploring our finite freshwater supply and the human rights, pollution, and conservation issues that need urgent solutions
• Fossil Fuels & Alternatives: a 3-week unit exploring our addiction to oil, the harsh impact it is having on our air pollution and greenhouse gas levels, and the urgent need to switch to clean renewable energy sources
• Sustainability PBL Unit: an 8-week thematic PBL unit that explores all three: water, fossil fuels, and garbage

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