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Find out what seasonal eating is and what its benefits are with 2nd level Bitesize.

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ZWS1054 LFHW Education Pack PRIMARY 1-3 UPDATED JUNE 2021

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Young People's Trust For the Environment

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The Young People's Trust for the Environment (YPTE) is a charity that encourages young people's understanding of the environment. It aims to give young people (and an increasing number of adults) clear and balanced information on a wide range of environmental issues, including climate change, plastic pollution, deforestation and endangered species. This enables them to make informed decisions about how to live their lives in a way that gives greater priority to the preservation of the natural world.

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Better Planet Schools

Better Planet Schools is an online environmental education programme, created by the Young People's Trust for the Environment to engage children and teachers in the UK's primary schools. The programme aims to engage students and teachers to learn about and take action on key issues like saving energy to tackle climate change; reducing use of plastics and other waste and increasing recycling; fast fashion; air pollution; and creating new habitats for wildlife to thrive. Schools choose three learning 'modules' per year, with each module lasting a school term. With new modules being created each year, children and schools can be engaged year after year in learning more about key environmental issues and how they can make a difference with their actions.
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Primary Awards for Green Education in Schools (PAGES)

The Primary Awards for Green Education in Schools (PAGES) is a new awards scheme for primary schools in the United Kingdom. PAGES aim to assist and encourage environmental education for young people aged 5-11. They promote cross-curricular work on the environment and ANY work you are doing at your school covering any kind of environmental issue can be entered. PAGES link with the National Curriculum for England and Wales, the Northern Ireland Curriculum Primary and the Scottish Curriculum for Excellence, click here to explore our guides.

It's free to enter the Primary Awards for Green Education in Schools and with 48 prizes and a prize fund worth over £15,000 available to schools, it's well worth taking part!
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Information for kids on the environment, climate change and wildlife | Young People's Trust For the Environment

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The Young People's Trust for the Environment (YPTE) is a charity that encourages young people's understanding of the environment. It aims to give young people (and an increasing number of adults) clear and balanced information on a wide range of environmental issues, including climate change, plastic pollution, deforestation and endangered species.

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The Big Soup Share 2017 / RHS Campaign for School Gardening

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I'm a big fan of composting, and my kids know it's an important part of our family habits. But do you know why it's so important? Do your kids know why composting matters? Try this experiment to see why we should compost our food scraps so they don't contribute to climate change.

Teaching our kids to practice sustainable living habits is really important, and it can be really fun. Also, as our kids get older, it's helpful to explore with them why sustainability and eco-friendly family habits matter.

We can teach our kids about the science of sustainability and the reasons it's so important through a variety of projects, books, and other forums and channels. One of my favorite ways to teach my boys about eco-friendly principles is through mini at-home science projects.

A couple of weeks ago, I teamed up with one of my very favorite Instagram and YouTube teachers, Jess of Thoughtfully Sustainable, to share three sustainability science experiments you can do with kids at home over on Kathryn Kellogg's blog, Going Zero Waste.

We talked about the food waste audit my family and I did a few months ago. We encouraged families to try growing food from food scraps.

We also introduced this landfill decomposition experiment, my favorite experiment of the three. This experiment shows young scientists how food scraps decomposing in an environment without oxygen, like a landfill, create gas. This is in comparison to food scraps that decompose with oxygen in a healthy composting environment and instead release oxygen, water, and a bit of carbon dioxide.

In a landfill, anaerobic decomposition (or decomposition without oxygen) releases methane gas which, according to the Environmental Protection Agency, is approximately 25 times more potent than carbon dioxide with respect to trapping heat in our atmosphere and contributing to global warming.

In other words, this experiment shows our young environmentalists that properly disposing of food scraps in a compost bin instead of a trash bin, where food scraps may end up in a landfill, can significantly reduce each person's individual impact on greenhouse gas emissions.

Perform the Landfill Experiment

To perform this experiment, partially fill three of the four containers with food scraps and then fill each container to the top with water. Fill the fourth container with only water. This will be the control for the experiment.

Cover each bottle with a balloon and seal the edges of the balloon with tape if they are not especially tight. For more formal instructions that include scientific explanations and more precision, I've included detailed instructions below as well as a link to the original source. My boys are young enough that we didn't need to execute the experiment with much precision, but the original experiment instructions might be helpful for older students or teachers looking to use the experiment in a classroom.

Over the course of a few days or a week, some of the balloons should begin to blow up as the food scraps decompose and produce methane gas. The balloon over the bottle filled with water should not change as there is methane production and thus no gas to fill the balloon. See the How-To instructions at the end of the post for most specific details.

You can this sustainability science experiment (and the other two we shared on Going Zero Waste) with kids. They require minimal preparation and a few materials you probably already have at home. Let me know if you try them out and what you think!

Thank you so much to Jess of Thoughtfully Sustainable for all her science and teaching experience. Go follow her. You won't regret it.

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Sustainable Science Experiment At Home | Landfill Emissions

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I'm a big fan of composting, and my kids know it's an important part of our family habits. But do you know why it's so important? Do your kids know why composting matters? Try this experiment to see why we should compost our food scraps so they don't contribute to climate change.

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Photographs of fruit with the packaging showing country it has been grown in. Useful to use with Food air miles calculator.

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Statements about food air miles for discussion.

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Ideas for calculating a recipe for a certain number of people, recipes to use left overs and more importantly, the benefits to the planet.

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Love Food Hate Waste is here to help us all make the most of the food we love. By rethinking how we shop, planning our meals better and using up our leftovers, together we can make a big difference.

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Video discussing the issues around food air miles and seasonal eating.

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One Week Of ONLY Seasonal And Local Food Challenge