Title: (Optional) Identify strategies for conserving environmental resources with regard to food purchase, storage, and disposal.
Course: Nutrition and Wellness (19253-18) > Section: Using Science and Technology in Food Management

Identification should include

- types of packaging used in the food industry and their effects on the environment and on consumers' health
- benefits and disadvantages of packaging recycling
- strategies to reduce, reuse, and recycle
- buying habits that encourage and discourage waste
- strategies to conserve resources and protect the environment regarding garbage disposal.

Process/Skill Questions:

Thinking

- Why should we be concerned about the environmental effects of food purchases and preparation?
- What criteria should we use when selecting packaged food products?
- How can we determine which is a wiser purchasing decision: to buy a food product in large quantity to save on unit cost, or to buy in smaller quantity to reduce the risk of waste?

Communication

- Why do manufacturers package the same product in different ways?
- What communication skills do we use to evaluate the environmental impact of recycling as a disposal method?
- How can we communicate our strategies for conserving environmental resources?

Leadership

- Why should manufacturers be held accountable for the waste incurred through packaging?
- What actions can consumers take to encourage less-wasteful packaging?
- What can we do to encourage children to conserve environmental resources? To encourage teens? To encourage adults?

Management

- What management strategies can help us develop a plan to recycle materials at home and reduce the amount of packaging we discard?
- What can consumers do to reduce the negative effects of packaging?
- What information is necessary to form buying habits that discourage waste?

Teacher Resource:

- FCCLA National Program: Student Body