| Rate A Lunch
Bag
Teacher's Edition
Students will need: 1 bag lunch from home and
a pencil
You will need to either make a hard copy of the
student page for the students to transfer information or students can work directly online
by placing (cut and paste) the student page in a work document.
Students will follow the steps below to decide how
"energy-efficient" your lunch packaging is:
1. Take out the contents of your lunch bag and put it on
the desk.
2. Record the number of items that you find in your lunch:
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reusable lunch box |
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paper |
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reusable thermos |
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wax paper |
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single-serving container |
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plastic wrap or baggie |
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reusable plastic container |
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aluminum foil |
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plastic straw |
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cellophane |
3. Do you throw all these items away every
day?
4. How could you use less packaging so you make less
garbage?
5. If you had used any item just one more time before
throwing it away, you would have saved one-half of the materials energy needed for
one-time use. You would also reduce garbage.
6. Using your calculator, figure the percentages of items
in your lunch bag that are recycleable, non-reuseable, and reuseable.
7. Write a list of 3 things you can do at home to cut down
on garbage.
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