Name: ____________________________________ Date: ______________ Period: ______

Print pages 1 to 4 for every student. Page 5 is the compost sort card set, one per group of four, printed and cut apart.

DAY 1

Part 1. Sustainability, in your words

Something is sustainable if ________________________________________________

Three farm methods

Which one surprised you? ______________________ Why?

Part 2. Plant it and keep it alive

My plant: ______________________ Planted on: ______________

My care plan

Watering chart, four students per week. Write your name in the week you signed up for.

Part 3. Compost sort

Sort the ten cards. Write each one in the right column, and for the NOT column write a reason.

The card my group argued about: ______________________

Why we argued: ______________________________________________________________

The rule in one sentence: things that used to be a plant break down. Things that came from an animal, or have oil or grease on them, ___________________________________.

Part 4. Packaging: protection against waste

The cucumber question

A cucumber wrapped in plastic stays fresh about three times as long as a loose one.

What gets better with the wrap: _____________________________________________

What gets worse with the wrap: ______________________________________________

Our three packages

Circle the one your group will redesign tomorrow.

The two criteria for tomorrow

1. ___________________________________________________________________________
2. ___________________________________________________________________________

Day 1 exit card

Sustainable means ___________________________________________________________.

One thing that makes food production more sustainable is _____________________.

DAY 2: The redesign

Step 1. Define the problem

Our package: ______________________________

The problem in one sentence: ______________________________________________

Step 2. Criteria and constraints

Criteria (what the new design has to achieve):

1. The food still gets protected: ____________________________________________
2. The waste goes down: ______________________________________________________

Constraints (rules the design cannot break). These are given to you:

1. The food has to survive shipping in a truck and being stacked three high.
2. The food has to last at least two weeks on a store shelf.
3. The package has to say what is inside and carry a Nutrition Facts panel.

Step 3. Brainstorm four ideas, then select one

The idea we selected: ______ Why that one: ___________________________

Step 4. Prototype

Build the model. Draw your model here and label every part.

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Step 5. Test it

Your teacher will ask you to drop it and stack three. Write what happened.

Drop test: ___________________________________________________________________

Stack test: __________________________________________________________________

Step 6. Justify

Our thirty-second pitch, in two sentences:

Class total: how many layers did the whole class remove today? ______

Page 5: Compost sort cards

Print one set per group of four and cut apart. Each card has the item name and a small picture.

Grade 8 stretch: the cost line and the hard question

Cost line

The hard question

Name one case where more packaging is the sustainable choice. Explain in three or four sentences.