What's Your Foodprint? The Impact of Different Foods

In What’s Your Foodprint?, students become food-carbon detectives, investigating the greenhouse gas emissions behind the foods and meals we eat every day.

Using a set of Food Cards and an interactive Emissions Calculator App, students calculate and compare the carbon footprints of different foods, build meals, and rank them from the highest to lowest emissions.

Together, the group investigates the results: Which foods have the biggest footprints? Which have the smallest? What patterns can we spot—and why do the numbers differ so much?

Then comes the design challenge.

Students use what they've discovered to create their own Earth-friendly menu, finding creative ways to build delicious meals with a smaller carbon footprint.

Students will:

• Calculate the greenhouse gas emissions of different foods
• Use an interactive emissions calculator
• Build and rank meals by their carbon footprint
• Compare high- and low-emissions foods
• Discuss why different foods have different environmental impacts
• Design their own Earth-friendly menu

Comes with:

• Educational slideshow
• Printable Food Cards
• Interactive Emissions Calculator App
• Downloadable worksheets
• Earth-Friendly Menu design challenge

Earth Doctors workshops are designed for teachers, parents, and environmental educators looking to bring more hands-on, action-oriented environmental learning into classrooms and community groups.

Our live sessions exist to support you: a co-design space where we mentor, troubleshoot, refine activities together, and build momentum to support your sustainability mission to come alive.

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