Time: 8:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m., PT
Format: In person
Audience: K-12th grade educators, formal and nonformal, including administrators, sustainability leaders, nutritional services, and custodial staff
Materials provided:
- Project Learning Tree's Municipal Solid Waste curriculum
- Project Learning Tree's Explore Your Environment: K-8 Activity Guide
- SubjectToClimate Oregon's Climate Education Hub
Description:
This interactive workshop explores the connection between food waste and climate change through hands-on activities, demonstrations by experts, and collaborative discussion. Participants will examine how reducing food waste can conserve resources, lower greenhouse gas emissions, save money, and strengthen food security—while also exploring Oregon-specific policies, best practices, and inspiring school-based initiatives.
• Educators will leave with grade-appropriate classroom activities and curricular resources from SubjectToClimate's Oregon Climate Education Hub, Project Learning Tree's Municipal Solid Waste curriculum and Exploring Your Environment Guide and other Oregon-based lessons. They will also have the opportunity to learn strategies for engaging students in food waste reduction and student-led action projects.
• Nutrition services staff, facilities staff, administrators, and others involved in cafeteria operations will have a chance to explore sustainable food system practices, available funding opportunities, and strategies for things such as reusable serviceware, share tables to reduce food waste, food recovery programs, and milk dispensers that reduce packaging waste.
• School teams will be offered dedicated planning time to identify next steps and develop an action plan for reducing food waste in their school community.
Considerations:
This workshop will take place mostly indoors. The site is wheelchair-accessible and has ADA bathroom(s) available.
Brought to you by: SubjectToClimate's Oregon Climate Education Hub; Metro; Clackamas County; Springwater Environmental Sciences School and Oregon Natural Resources Education Program (ONREP).
Registration required and will close approximately 1 week prior to the workshop or when full. Offered at no cost to Oregon Educators. Must be 18 years of age or older. PDUs available. Substitute reimbursement available on teacher workdays.