Sustainable
Food
Saturday, February 26,
2011
What Is a Food Shed?
What is a "Food
Shed"? Mapping Our Local and Global "Food Sheds". Cooked dish
and.map the origins of each ingredient. Show and tells of some local food maps.
Breaking Down Food
Justice: Why do youth eat junk food when they know
its bad for them?"
Analyzing environmental
influences of students' food decisions.
Calorimetry
Activity handout from
Modesto Tamez. Link will be available in March on the following website:
http://www.exo.net/~emuller/sos/
Paul Doherty's article for
Exploring magazine about chemical energy in food.
http://www.exo.net/~pauld/activities/food/countingcalories.html
The Mathematics of
Nutrition: How Many Raisins Do You
"Burn" When You Ascend A Set of Stairs? This links to an older draft: http://philo.exploratorium.edu/~loril/activities/work_and_calories.pdf
Link to latest draft will
be available in March on the following website:
http://www.exo.net/~emuller/sos/
Calories per Dollar
A look at different snack
foods, comparing calories per dollar.
Food subsidy graphic from
"Why Does a Big Mac Costs Less Than a Salad?"
http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/09/why-a-big-mac-costs-less-than-a-salad/
Trophic Budget Snack (for break)
In a food chain only 10%
of the energy is transferred between trophic
levels, and 90% is lost as
heat. Given a certain energy budget, what
snack would you choose?
Link for trophic level graphics:
http://sparkleberrysprings.com/v-web/b2/?p=615
Measuring Fat In Fast
Food, Measuring Sugar In Sodas
Lawrence Hall of Science's
"Sugar Sleuths" activity–not designed specifically for soda, but a good
general introduction for children and families.
http://lawrencehallofscience.org/familyhealth/activities/sugarsleuths/sugarsleuths.pdf
Worm Wisdom
Julie Yu's handout on worm
composting. Link will be available in March on the following website:
http://www.exo.net/~emuller/sos/
Resources:
UCSF and CA Pacific
Medical Center's study "Food Access in Bayview Hunters Point"
Includes maps comparing food access in Marina and Bayview Hunters Point. Link
will be available in March on the following website:
http://www.exo.net/~emuller/sos/
"Should Humans Eat
Lower on the Food Chain?"
Excerpt from textbook,
Botkin and Keller's Environmental Science: Earth as a living planet (Wiley: 2003). p 166.
Link will be available in
March on the following website:
http://www.exo.net/~emuller/sos/
Center for Urban Education
About Sustainable Agriculture–whose mission is to promote sustainable
agriculture through the Ferry Building Farmer's Market:
FDA explanation of food
labels:
http://www.fda.gov/Food/LabelingNutrition/ConsumerInformation/ucm078889.htm#twoparts
Power Play - resources
kits and trainings for schools and afterschool program providers who for youth
age 9-11. This targeted age group because Power Play's research indicates that
youth age 9-11 start having more say in their food choices.
http://www.barnn.org/d_power_play.htm
SF Green Schoolyard
Alliance - teacher trainings and guides on how to start and foster a schoolyard
gardening project
http://sfgreenschools.org/what-we-do/
Their recently released
book, How to Grow a School Garden: A Complete
Guide for Parents and
Teachers:
http://www.timberpress.com/books/how_grow_school_garden/bucklin-sporer/9781604690002
Native Species Web
LEJ curriculum for grades
4-8 connecting local native food webs with topics like trophic level, energy
transfer, and food chains.
Link will be available in
March on the following website:
http://www.exo.net/~emuller/sos/