Programming at Give Back With a Snack

Connecting with the Leaders of Tomorrow

Programming at Give Back With a Snack offers free, interactive lessons designed to nurture practices of sustainability, reducing waste, and giving back in elementary and middle school students. Our lessons plans are curated by students and are intentionally interactive, inviting room for invigorating discussion. Check out three of our most popular lesson plans below and contact us to schedule a lesson taught by our high school student team at your next school assembly.

Using Art to Observe Food Waste

Our Classic Lesson

Overlooking Food Waste is the most common programming lesson we teach. That is because we offer this lesson to every school upon their implementation of Give Back With a Snack. Overlooking Food Waste uses art and images to highlight how easy it can be to ignore leftovers or simply throw whole meals away. But easy is not always moral. This lesson offers tips and tricks to waste less and give back more.

Weight Your Waste

An Invigorating Challenge

Give Back With a Snack highly values improvement throughout the learning process. In this lesson, students will be asked to think about and discuss how they may create food waste and trash. At the end of this lesson, our team will leave the school with a large bin and a scale. At the end of each week, students should put their food and trash waste from lunch that day in the bin which will be weighed by a teacher. Students will compete against themselves from one week ago to try and reduce the amount of waste in the bin, ultimately aiming to make little to none upon the last day of the challenge.

Recycling, Compost, Trash!

Protecting our Environment

Ever thought about why landfills are so bad for the environment? In this lesson, students will learn about landfills as well as the processes of recycling and composting. Students will have a chance to discuss how they try to reduce, reuse, and recycle in their daily lives. The lesson culminates in either a school wide cleanup which involves sorting recyclables and trash, making a mini compost, or participating in an arts and crafts project that re-uses old, recyclable materials.