Plate to Planet Curriculum
Plate to Planet is a set of interdisciplinary lessons designed for grade levels 3-5. The lessons focus on understanding the challenges of the food system with a focus on biodiversity and climate change. Students will learn what green chemistry is and how companies like Impossible Foods use it to design solutions by putting their problem solving skills to the test!
Plate to Planet: 00 Complete Unit
Plate to Planet: 00 Complete Unit
Download the Plate to Planet unit PDF complete with the unit summary, teacher background and student sheets. All linked to google sheets designed for easy access and editing capabilities.
Plate to Planet: 01 Slide Deck
Plate to Planet: 01 Slide Deck
Plate to Planet Lesson Slide Deck is chock full of images and interactive links that support the delivery and implementation of the entire four lesson unit. Google slides linked here.
Plate to Planet: 02 Student Lab Notebook
Plate to Planet: 02 Student Lab Notebook
The Plate to Planet Student Lab Notebook has been designed in Google Slides as an accompanying support to the student worksheets.
Plate to Planet: 03 Building Block Innovation Matching Game
Plate to Planet: 03 Building Block Innovation Matching Game
Students will try to pair the “plant-based building block” with the product that typically comes from animals. The goal is to show them that food scientists are able to use non-animal sources to make products we love, but in a more sustainable way.
Plate to Planet: 04 Food Scientist
Plate to Planet: 04 Food Scientist
This is a unit investigating biodiversity, food as science, and chemistry as a tool for solving sustainability challenges. The Plate to Planet Unit teaches students in grades 3-5 how food production and food decisions impact our environment. The resources feature detailed connections to NGSS life and physical sciences as well as crosscutting concepts. Resources that bring chemistry to life in the classroom create content that is compelling to students of all ages.
Plate to Planet: Elephant Toothpaste
Plate to Planet: Elephant Toothpaste
This is an experiment/demonstration that is great for teaching about catalysts. The demonstration will show a chemical reaction in which a catalyst (yeast) is added to hydrogen peroxide to create a foam that looks like a giant squirt of toothpaste that could be used on an elephant!
Plate to Planet: Strawberry DNA Extraction
Plate to Planet: Strawberry DNA Extraction
In this activity, the children will be extracting Deoxyribonucleic Acid, DNA, from strawberries. Cells are the basic unit of life and make up all living things. DNA is the molecule that controls everything in the cell. DNA contains the instructions that direct all the cell’s activities. This lesson will show how DNA can be isolated from a strawberry utilizing the principles of Green Chemistry. The extraction will use common household materials.
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