After reading the book “All That Trash” by Meghan McCarthy, students in the 2/3 Buckeyes class had so many questions and were concerned and motivated to do something to reduce our trash. To begin, children wrote questions they had and potential ideas for next steps. After further deliberation, they decided that food waste would be their class cause.

Students were excited and ready to take on their project’s driving question: How can you as a community advocate and create a book for lower school students to encourage them to reduce/transform our food waste? Students identified key topics and points of knowledge to create a Table of Contents, from which each student chose a few pages they would be interested in researching and creating. Working in partnerships, they researched, chose a page layout, and decided what content would be on their page. After a few weeks of work, conferencing with teachers, and creating several drafts, their book was finished!