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2025 Week 3 Session
Food Systems

Week 3 Curriculum

Welcome to Week 3 of the CoT Program. This page contains the program curriculum for the Week 3 session.

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Objectives: The objectives of this session are to:

  • Introduce the concept of food system networks that affect the health of people and the planet.

  • Explore the production, distribution, processing, consumption, and waste/disposal parts of a food system.

  • Explore how the food system is connected and how we all contribute to the food network.

 

Week 3 Resources​

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Center of Transformation

BGCGW CoT
Intro Video

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Link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nFXVIqe8KWxTekOeXpIwlBAyM96hY3qP/view?usp=share_link
Duration: 10 min 17 sec

Weekly Activities

Activity #1: Select A Sustainable Art Project Type 

Exercise or Activity

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This week, each project team will select a sustainable art project type that they will create in Week 7. This will allow CoT staff time to prepare and send each project team the necessary materials to complete their project.  Materials will be ordered and shipped in Weeks 4-6.

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To inspire creativity, project teams are encouraged to create artwork representing an aspect of climate change and food (sustainability, food systems, food justice, etc.). This project will be one of final project competition components!

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Sustainable Art Project Types:

  1. Magazine Collage Mural: Create a collage mural from old magazines and newspapers clippings to depict healthy & sustainable foods or another climate change topic covered. Project team members can begin collecting recycled materials before Week 7.

  2. Vision Board for Climate Change & Food: Create a vision board to address one of the climate change and food topics that visually represents a challenge, solution, and hope for future change or improvement through action (i.e. food insecurity, food desserts, food injustice, recycling, overflowing landfills, hunger, etc.).

  3. Photography Collage: Illustrate a topic related to climate change and food from visuals seen in your neighborhood or community. Project team can take and print pictures on a poster board. Must be original pictures taken by the project team (not others or on the Internet).

  4. Trash-to-Treasure Sculpture: Create a sculpture using recycled and/or discarded materials (i.e. food wrappers, plastic bottles, cardboard, scrap metal, plant seeds, and food containers, etc.) to highlight how food and food waste contribute to greenhouse gas emissions. Project team members can begin collecting recycled materials before Week 7.

  5. Painting: Create a collaborative painting that illustrates an aspect of the climate change & food theme (i.e. sustainable foods, plants, leaves, or flowers, food images, food desserts, recycling, waste disposal, food injustice, etc.). Consider using natural dyes from plants, fruits, and vegetables to create texture art.

Submission Link: 

All Project Teams should make their selection on the online Sustainable Art Project Type Submission using the QR Code or at: https://forms.office.com/r/iT5zChY1v1.

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Activity #2: Virtual Escape Room
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Each Project Team will play a virtual escape room game.  Project Teams will be assigned an important mission to secure food for the future. Teams will have five missions to find five keys to unlock five doors. Points will be assigned to each of the five missions and the team who gets the highest points will win the challenge.

  1. Materials: **Please have scratch paper, a pen, and calculator handy**

  2. Read the game instructions out loud and ensure both teams understand how to play.

  3. Select one Project Team member who will enter the team’s responses and submit their game. There should be only one submission per team.

  4. Project Team members should work together to complete all five missions.

  5. After each team completes the virtual escape room they will see their total points and the questions they answered right and wrong.

 

THE TEAM WHO GETS THE HIGHEST POINTS WINS THE CHALLENGE! 

Good Luck!!!

Wrap-up

1. Session Debrief Questions:

  • Which art project did your team select and why? What ideas do you have?

  • How can we improve the climate change situation with our food systems?

2.  Teens:

4.  Facilitator:

  • Provide an Overview of Week 4.

  • Record attendance for Week 3.

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