♻️ Waste A-Weigh: Track and Reduce Your Trash!
Grades: All Grades
🗑️ Purpose
Ever wonder how much trash your class throws away at lunch? In this activity, you’ll weigh your lunch waste each day for a week and learn how small actions can make a big difference for the planet!
📝 Step 1: Track Your Trash
Use the Waste A-Weigh worksheet to record the weight of your class’s lunch trash every day for one week.
📊 Step 2: Analyze the Data
Look at the numbers! Did you make less trash as the week went on? What changed?
🌍 Step 3: Make a Plan
As a class or school, come up with ideas to keep reducing your waste—like using reusable containers or composting food scraps.
✏️ Step 4: Reflect
Write a 1–4 paragraph reflection about what you learned. You can include:
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Trends or patterns you noticed
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Surprising discoveries
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One big takeaway from this activity
✅ Step 5: Complete the SAP Google Form
Don’t forget to fill out the Student Action Project form to share your results and reflection!