# Slides 6.1: Trace a Food From Farm to Plate

Slide outline for Lesson 6.1. Twelve slides, one day. The ten-step slide and the four food slides become the review deck before the Food Systems Quiz. [Sal: photos of your own store and your own milk carton beat stock photos here.]

## Slide 1: Trace a Food From Farm to Plate

- Unit 6: From Farm to Table
- Lesson 6.1, Topic 6.1 Where Food Comes From
- Today: four teams, four foods, one wall
Image: a supermarket dairy case, shot straight on, full and ordinary.
Notes: Leave this up as students enter. Say nothing about the activity yet.

## Slide 2: Do now

- Name one thing you ate this morning
- How many people worked on it before it got to you?
- Write a number and the name of one job
Notes: Take four numbers out loud, low to high, and write them on the board. Most students write one to three. Keep those numbers visible; the gap is the lesson.

## Slide 3: This carton

- About eight days old
- Six buildings
- Three trucks
- Nineteen people got paid
Image: a single half gallon carton of milk on a plain counter.
Notes: This is the hook. Hold up the real carton while this slide is on. Then: "Today your team maps every one of those steps for one food."

## Slide 4: The ten steps

- Grow or raise
- Harvest
- Process
- Package
- Transport
- Store, then Sell, then Cook, then Eat, then Leftovers and waste
Image: a horizontal chain of ten simple icons, left to right, with an arrow between each.
Notes: Say the rule out loud: every food goes through these, and some steps happen more than once. Students copy the ten steps onto the recording sheet and circle the two they had never thought about.

## Slide 5: Milk, all ten, in sixty seconds

- Dairy farmer, milking technician, tanker driver
- Plant operator, filler line worker
- Warehouse picker, delivery driver, stock clerk, cashier
- You. And whoever empties the fridge
Image: five small photos in a row: cows in a barn, a milking parlor, a tanker truck, a filling line, a dairy case.
Notes: Walk it once, fast, naming the job at each step. Do not let this run past a minute; the teams do the work, not you.

## Slide 6: Rules of the trace

- Ten real step cards, two decoys
- Order them on your wall path
- Decoys go in the "does not belong" box
- Write the job, the time, and the cost on your sheet
- Be ready to defend your order
Notes: Assign the four teams and the four foods. Hand out the shuffled card sets.

## Slide 7: Team 1, MILK

- About 6 to 12 days from cow to glass
- About 19 people paid
- Cold the whole way
Image: a refrigerated tanker truck at a loading dock.

## Slide 8: Team 2, BREAD

- About 9 months in the ground, then 3 days
- About 15 people paid
- No refrigeration anywhere
Image: a wheat field with a combine, next to a bakery cooling rack.

## Slide 9: Team 3, BANANA

- About 2,000 miles or more
- About 22 people paid
- Cut green on purpose, ripened here on a schedule
Image: green bananas in a box with a plastic liner, then the same bunch yellow on a store shelf.

## Slide 10: Team 4, CHICKEN NUGGET

- 6 to 7 weeks to raise, up to 9 months frozen
- About 25 people paid, the most of the four
- Already fully cooked before you buy it
Image: a frozen food case, and beside it a nugget cut in half.

## Slide 11: Find the T and the C

- T on the step that takes the longest
- C on the step that adds the most to the price
- Then answer: does the farmer get the biggest share?
Notes: Do not answer the farmer question. Let the wall answer it. Every one of the four foods says no.

## Slide 12: Exit card

- The step I never thought about is ___
- And the person who does it is a ___
Notes: Two students read a line. Sort the cards into "got it" and "needs more." Leave the four wall paths up; Lessons 6.2, 6.3, and 6.5 all tape onto them.