Food, Cities, and Our Future UNIT 3+

Food-Secure Cities

In Unit 2, you analyzed food security in your local food environment. In Unit 3, you will research food security
across your city. You can think of your city as its own big food environment. Experts predict 68 percent of the
world's people will live in or near cities by the year 2050.* As cities grow and change, the ways to help all people
access nutritious foods must also change. The people who live there must make sure there is enough food to
meet all people’s food needs.

In Unit 3, you will research your city's food environment to learn about food security issues and some solutions
and innovations to address them. You will learn how local agriculture can help make a city's food environment
more sustainable for the people who live there. In the e-classroom, you will share your opinions about the best
ways to improve sustainability and equity. For your digital project, you will produce a news report to inform your
international peers about important food issues and the future of food in your city.

*Source: United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs. (2018). 68%
of the world population projected to live in urban areas by 2050, says UN.

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Vocabulary
AGRICULTURE (noun)
The practice of growing crops and raising animals for food.
Example: People depend on agriculture to produce the food they eat.

EQUITY (noun)
When everyone can access what they need to be healthy and happy.
Example: Our city helps people start gardens in their communities to improve equity in our food
environment.

INNOVATION (noun)
A new tool or way of doing something.
Example: The vertical farm is an innovation that helps people grow food in cities.

SOLUTION (noun)
A way to address a challenge.
Example: When people in a city do not have enough nutritious food options, local agriculture can be
part of the solution.

SUSTAINABILITY (noun)
The practice of using resources in a way that causes little or no harm to people or the planet, and so
that they will be available for a long time.
Example: Innovations such as urban agriculture can improve the sustainability of city food systems.

SUSTAINABLE (adjective)
Causing little or no harm to people or the planet.
Example: My family uses plant-based detergent to wash our clothes because it is more sustainable for
our local water system.

! VOCABULARY CHALLENGE
Choose the vocabulary word above that best fits in each blank. You might have to change the
word slightly so that it makes sense.

To achieve in a city food system, the people who live there must address food security
issues. Some issues are challenges that need . Others are opportunities for city leaders
and community members to think of . Local is one way to help make a city's
food environment for the people who live there. When solutions and innovations improve
food security for everyone in a city, they help to create .

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Research Responsibly
Choose Reliable Sources
You can’t trust everything you read or see. To decide if a source is reliable, ask:
Who is the author? The author can be a person, organization, or
university. Do research to decide if the author is trustworthy.

Can you find the same information somewhere else? Check other
websites. If many trustworthy sources give the same information, the
information is more likely to be true.

Did I find this on Wikipedia? Many people write the pages on Wikipedia. Anyone can change a page
at any time. It can be a good place to start, but it should not be your only source for information. The
"References" section at the bottom of a Wikipedia page can direct you to additional sources on a topic.

Paraphrase and Quote

Use your own words to share ideas. If you need to use the author’s exact words, use quotation marks. It is
never acceptable to copy and paste information without quotation marks.
If the author says... You can say... Notice that...

“Cities account for 60 percent of Around 60 percent of the The numbers are the same
resource use.”* world’s resources are used by but the words are different.
cities (UN DESA, 2020).
“Rapid urbanization is exerting As more people move to cities, The main idea is the same,
pressure on fresh water supplies, they will demand more fresh but most of the words are
sewage, the living environment, water, create more waste, and different.
and public health.”* impact the local environment.
“City pollution—air pollution and The United Nations (2020) says Quotation marks are around
ineffective wastewater treatment pollution in cities “remains a words that stay the same. It
and solid waste management— constant problem.” gives credit to the author.
remains a constant problem.”**
*Source: United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs. (2020).
Goal 11: Make cities inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable.
**Source: United Nations, Environment Programme. (2020). Sustainable Cities.
Cite Sources
Cite each source to give credit to the author. It shows that the information came from a trustworthy person
or organization. Other people can also find the information if they want to read more.

To cite a source: Write the title of the article, website, or other source where you
got the information.
Include the author and date if you can find them. Sometimes the
author is an organization.

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Local Flavors
In Unit 2, you learned all people need food security to be healthy. Local agriculture is one way to help people in
a city experience food security.

The type of land, climate, and amount of fresh water available in a place impact agriculture. In places near oceans
or rivers, people may fish or harvest sea plants, such as kelp. In deserts, there is little water to grow crops. There,
people may herd animals. Where the ground is wet or swampy, people can grow crops like cranberries and rice.

People sometimes change their environments to make it easier to produce food. They may create solutions to
deliver water to crops in places where it doesn't rain often. They may build ledges into mountainsides to make it
easier for crops to grow. They may remove forests to create grasslands where they can grow animals for food.

In 2019, 884 million people around the world worked in agriculture.* They continue to improve how we produce
food. They add nutrients to the soil where crops grow. They develop innovations to grow crops in unexpected
places, such as rooftops. They even grow some crops without soil! As more people move to cities, local agriculture
can help everyone experience food security.
* Source: FAO. 2020. World Food and Agriculture - Statistical Yearbook 2020. Rome.

In Greece, sheep are

important to agriculture.
Farmers may let them roam
fields and hills nearby to find
food. Feta cheese is a local
food made with sheep's milk.
Photo by M. Wilhelm

People built salt flats into the

mountains near Cusco, Peru.
When the water evaporates,
people harvest the salt that is
left. Photo by G. Snodgrass

Jambiani, Tanzania is on the coast of the

Indian Ocean. People here harvest seaweed
by hand when the tide is low. These farmers in Iran harvest saffron. It is a very
© Yann Macherez CC BY-SA 4.0 expensive spice because the flowers do not produce
much of it, and people must harvest it by hand.
© Safa.daneshvar CC BY-SA 3.0

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Research: Local Flavors

What agriculture is practiced in or near your city? Choose a food that is grown or produced locally.
Research the food online to answer the questions below. Remember to cite your sources!

Describe the food. What does it look like? Where and when is the food produced? How
What other details can you share about it? is it produced?

Local Food

What is a recipe that uses this food? What does this food make you wonder about
the agriculture in or near your city?

My Sources

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Global Discussion: Local Food Issues

Write a post to share the food you researched. Explain how this food is grown or
produced. Share a recipe that uses the food. Review your work with a classmate
and show it to your teacher before you post in the e-classroom.

In your post: 1. How did you research local agriculture? Share your source(s).
2. Name a food that is grown or produced locally. Describe the food and
explain how it is grown or produced.
3. Share a recipe that uses the food.
4. Ask your peers a question about the local foods they researched.

Click the photo icon

or the link icon to
share a recipe.

Subject

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Dear Peers,
The source I used to research local agriculture, was

A food I researched that is (grown/produced) locally is .

This food (describe what it looks like and other details about it)

To (grow/produce) this food,

A recipe that includes this food is .

(Ask your peer a question.)
Sincerely,

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Local Food Security Issues

Everyone needs food security, but not everyone experiences
it. When all people can access affordable, nutritious food
whenever they need to, it helps create equity.

People who live in the same city may face different food
security challenges. In some places, there may not be many
nutritious food options. Areas that do offer many nutritious food
options may be far from public transportation. Or, nutritious
foods that are available in a community may not be affordable
for everyone who lives there. In 2017, experts estimated that
three billion people across the world were not able to afford a
healthy diet.* These challenges need solutions.

In every city, there are opportunities to improve food security now and in the future. City leaders can start programs
to support local agriculture and nutritious eating. People can reduce food waste. Food waste happens when
good, nutritious food is thrown away instead of eaten. Experts estimate that 1/3 of the food produced every year
is not eaten.** Reducing food waste can lower the cost of food. It also makes more food available for people.
Everyone benefits from innovations that meet these opportunities.

*Source: FAO, IFAD, UNICEF, WFP and WHO. 2020. The State of Food Security and Nutrition in
the World 2020. Transforming food systems for affordable healthy diets. Rome, FAO.
**Source: Food loss and Food Waste. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

Develop Your Own Opinion

People can have different opinions about an issue even if they start with the same information. This is
because people think about issues from different perspectives. Use these tips to develop your own opinion:

Learn About Listen to Other Decide What Matters

the Issue Perspectives to You
The more you know about an Ask for other people’s Your opinion reflects your
issue, the more likely you are opinions on the issue to help perspective, feelings, beliefs,
to have ideas about it. you think about your own and values. It’s okay to be
ideas in a new way. unsure or change your mind.

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Analyze: Food Security Issues in Our City

Read a local news article about a food security issue in your city. The
issue might be a challenge that needs a solution or an opportunity to
improve food security for more people in your city. Research the causes
of the issue and how it impacts people. Paraphrase or quote information
from the article to support your ideas.

Article Title:
Author and Publication:

My Ideas Support from the Article

What is the issue?

What is the
challenge to be
addressed?

What are the

causes of the issue?

Who is impacted by
this issue? How are
they impacted?

What are
some goals or
innovations for the
future?

Share Your Opinion: Based on your research, what solution or innovation do you think would best address this
issue? Support your answer with information from the article.

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Read and Reply: Local Food Issues

Choose a post that does not have a reply. Read your international peer’s ideas.
Write a reply to respond to your peer’s question and share what you learned about
food security in your city. Ask them about their research. Remember to have your
teacher review your draft before you post.

In your reply: 1. Answer your peer’s question.

2. Share the title, author, and date of your research source. Link or attach the
source.
3. Describe the local food security issue you researched. Whom does this
issue impact and how?
4. In your opinion, what action would best improve food security in your city?
Explain how this action would improve food security. Think about what you
learned from your research and Unit 2 digital project to help you answer.
5. Ask your peer a question about their research.

Reply: Add subject line Add attachment Use rich text editor

Dear ,
Thank you for sharing your ideas. You asked

To answer,

My research source was by from .

The food security issue I researched was .
The way this issue impacts people is
In my opinion, the action that would best improve food security in my city is
This action would improve food security because

(Ask your peers a question.) ?

Sincerely,

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Learn More: Soil and Composting

Agriculture relies on soil. We eat plants that grow in soil. The
animals we rely on for milk, eggs, cheese, and meat eat plants that
grow in soil too. Healthy soil is full of nutrients.

Soil is complex! It can include air, water, healthy bacteria, sand, and
clay. When plants, insects, and animals die, they decompose and
add nutrients to soil. These nutrients help plants grow.

People can help this natural process. They can turn their food
waste, such as vegetable peels and expired fruit, into a material called compost. They can then add
compost to the soil their plants grow in. Composting is one solution to improve food security. It reduces
food waste and adds nutrients to food.

Some cities collect food waste to

turn into compost in the same way
they collect trash and recycling.
In other cities, people can donate
food waste to organizations that
will turn it into compost. People can
also create compost at home to use
in their own gardens if they have
outdoor space and a bin.
Worms and other composting bugs eat food waste and turn it back into
nutrients for the soil.
Photos by C. Khachatourians

To create compost, first collect “brown” and “green” plant materials. Brown materials include dry leaves,
straw, or sawdust. Green materials include fruit and vegetable scraps. Put green material at the bottom of
the bin. Cover it with brown material. Repeat these steps each time you add to the compost pile. Keep the
pile moist, but not too wet. Mix the pile every week. The pile will heat up as good bacteria eat and digest
the materials. In six to nine months, your compost will be ready!

How does composting help improve food security?

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Solutions and Innovations!

You learned that people in cities have different food security challenges and opportunities. They can create
solutions and innovations to address these issues.

Community members should be able to create their own solutions and innovations. This is an important part of
equity. Community members know about delicious and nutritious foods in their cultures. They know how people
in their community like to shop, cook, and eat. They understand their community's history. They are the best
people to make decisions for its future.

City leaders can help communities address food

security issues. They can research the issues and
talk with community members to learn how the issues
impact people. They can ask for the community's
help to take action. They may start a program to help
more people afford nutritious food. Or, they may
open a farmer's market in a new neighborhood so
more people can access local agriculture.

Business and organization leaders can also help communities address food security issues. Schools can build
gardens and compost stations. They can partner with local businesses to include more nutritious foods in school
meals. Restaurant owners can donate extra, still delicious food to food banks. People in a city can work together
to improve food security for everyone now and in the future.

Respond to Opinions
Remember that people can have different opinions depending on their
perspectives. Try to learn about your peers’ opinions before you share
yours. Ask them to explain their thinking to help you understand. Try
these sentences:

“I agree with your opinion about...because...”

“I disagree with your opinion about...because...”
“I need help understanding. Can you please give me an example of that?”
“I think that’s a good point because...”
“Can you tell me more about your opinion?”

You can also use these phrases when you reply to your international peers in the e-classroom.

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Learn More: Urban Agriculture

One way to improve food security and create equity in a city is to
help more people who live there grow food. This is called urban
(city) agriculture.

Cities do not always have a lot of unused land or the best weather
for agriculture. So, people develop innovations to help them
grow what they need. One innovation is vertical farming. Fruits
and vegetables grow in stacked layers along the sides of a tall
building or indoors. Vertical farms can even grow in unexpected
This vertical garden from Augsburg, Germany
places like unused shipping containers! Growing crops indoors shows how people in cities can practice
protects them from bad weather. agriculture even when they have limited
space available. © Neitram, CC BY-SA 4.0

Community gardens are another urban agriculture innovation.

Community gardens can grow in public spaces or at schools –
they can even grow on rooftops! Often, volunteers take care
of community gardens. They can also be a place to teach kids
about nutritious foods. These gardens let people decide what
foods are best to grow for their own community.

This community garden grows in raised beds

among homes, businesses, and schools in
Baltimore, Maryland, United States.
Photo by G. Snodgrass

Urban agriculture can also present challenges. Vertical farms may use a
lot of energy to help crops grow indoors. Community gardens are not safe
if the soil they grow in contains harmful chemicals. Most cities cannot rely
on urban agriculture alone to feed their growing populations. Still, urban
agriculture is one innovative way to improve a city's food security.

How do you think urban agriculture can help improve your city’s food
security?
Students learned how to grow
vegetables, flowers, and herbs in
this school rooftop garden in New
York City, New York, United States.
Photo by A. Heffner CC BY-NC

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Interview: Food Security Leader

Interview someone who works on a solution or innovation to
improve food security for people in your city. This person could be a
manager at a farmer's market, the director of a program that delivers
meals to people, or the person who leads your school cafeteria. Ask
the questions below and write some of your own. Remember to take
pictures or record a video of your interview to post!

Interview Questions
What is the goal of your work? How does it connect to food security?

What solution or innovation do you work on?

How will this (solution/innovation) help achieve your goal? Why is it a good action to take for our city or culture?

Who benefits from this (solution/innovation)? Is there anyone who doesn't benefit?

What else do you think can be done to work on this food security issue in our city?

! CHALLENGE
Ask follow-up questions to learn more:

Can you give an example What makes you Can you tell us more about
of ______? say that? ______?

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Exchange: Local Food Issues

Check your post. Did any of your peers reply? Respond to their questions and ideas
to start an exchange about local solutions and innovations to improve food security.
If you don’t have a reply yet, look for another post or reply and respond. Ask your
teacher to review your draft before you post.

In your reply: 1. Answer a peer’s question.

2. Make a connection between an idea a peer shared and an idea you learned
from your research.
3. Describe the food security solution or innovation you learned about.
Remember to cite your source and paraphrase or quote information from
your interview appropriately.
4. Ask a peer a question.

Reply: Add subject line Add attachment Use rich text editor

Dear ,
You asked .
To answer, I think

You shared the idea that

This reminds me of what I learned about

I say this because .
The food security (solution/innovation) I learned about is

I got this information from .

(Ask your peers a question.) ?
Sincerely,

Submit Reply Save Draft

Continue the Conversation

Look for other e-classroom exchanges you can join. Answer the questions your
peers asked, respond to their ideas, and ask a new question to learn more.

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Digital Project: Food Security in Our City

In this unit, you learned about food security issues in your city. You researched how solutions and innovations,
including local agriculture, can address these issues. A city where everyone experiences food security is
sustainable for the people who live there because people can trust that they will always have the food they need.

For the Unit 3 digital project, you will produce a news report about food security in your city. You
can choose how to present your news. Will you write an article, produce a video, or record a
podcast to share your information with your international peers?

To complete your digital project:

Step 1: Review Your Unit 3 Research

Read your notes on pages 52, 55, and 60.

Use your notes to answer the Brainstorm questions on page 63.

Choose quotes from your research to use in the news report.

Step 2: Report on What You Learned

Choose a format for your report: article, video, or podcast.
Plan the words and media (images, video, audio) you will use to
share your information.
Draft a report that answers the Brainstorm questions and includes an
introduction and conclusion. Name the sources of your information.

Name who created the media you use. Write captions for images.

Write a headline for your report and include a list of your sources.

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Brainstorm
In your news report, you will communicate what you learned about food security
in your city to your audience. An audience is the people who read, listen to, or
watch a news report. Audiences expect a news report to provide trustworthy
information about a topic.

Use quotes and paraphrased information from your Unit 3 research to answer the following questions about
food security in your city.

What agriculture is practiced in or near our What food security issues exist in our city?
city? Whom do they impact and how?

What solutions or innovations do people in What other actions could improve food
our community work on to make our city security for people in our city so that it is
more food secure? sustainable now and in the future?

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Make a Plan
Use the space below to plan the words and media you will use to
answer the Brainstorm questions for your audience. Try to use
images, audio, and video that you created!

Inform Your Audience

Words Images, Video or Audio
What key ideas do you want your What can your audience see or hear to
audience to understand? help them better understand these ideas?

What agriculture is
practiced in or near
your city?

What food security

issues are there in your
city? Whom do they
impact and how?

What solutions or
innovations do people
in your community
work on to improve
food security in our
city?

What other actions

could improve food
security for people in
our city so that it is
sustainable now and in
the future?

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Newsroom Responsibilities
Below, write the names of the people who will complete each job.

Reporter: Use the research to

Creative Director: Find or write or record the words. Producer: Put the pieces of the
produce the images, video, report together with a digital tool.
or audio. Decide where to put Write subtitles in English for audio
them and write captions. or video.

Editor-in-Chief: Write or Copy Editor: Review the research

record the introduction and and check that the reporter's
conclusion. Write a headline. words are accurate. Cite sources.

Career Spotlight: Journalist

Journalists report on people, places, events, and ideas in our world.
In their news reports, they try to answer questions for their audience.

Journalists can publish news reports in newspapers and magazines,

on TV, on the radio, or on a website. To research topics, journalists ask
what, when, where, how, and why something happened, and who is
involved. Journalists interview experts who help them answer these
questions. They also interview community members who can share
Kids can be reporters too! In 2007,
their experiences and opinions about the topic. During interviews, Allison Tam interviewed U.S. Senator
Barack Obama, a future president.
journalists collect interesting quotes and information to add to reports. © Scholastic, Inc. CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

A journalist’s most important responsibility is to share trustworthy information. Trustworthy information

is accurate and presents many different perspectives on a topic. Journalists can share the opinions of
the people they interview, but in a news story they should not share their personal opinions or say which
perspective on a topic they think is best.

People who read or listen to news also have a responsibility. Before they use information in the report to
form an opinion, they must check that the information is trustworthy. They can gather information on the
same topic from many different news sources to help them decide.

What do you think you would enjoy about being a journalist? What would you find challenging?

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Create
Produce your news report (article, video, or podcast). Include images,
video, or audio to support your information.

Draft a complete version of your report.

Use page 50 to check that you paraphrased, quoted, and cited information correctly.

Decide what feedback you will ask for during Test It Out.

Producers: Use a digital tool to create your report.

Editor-in-Chief: Write an introduction and conclusion for the report.

Give Feedback
When you share your opinion on a peer's work, it is called feedback. Feedback is an
important part of learning, and how you give feedback matters. Choose your words
wisely to make sure your peer feels supported and can follow your feedback. Ask
yourself these questions before you say or write feedback:

Is your feedback helpful? Is it said with kindness?

How will your feedback help your peer improve their project or learn something new?
Are your suggestions clear? Will your peer understand how to follow them?

If you aren’t sure, ask a friend for advice. Sometimes what sounds helpful to us can feel hurtful to
someone else.

Opinions in the News

A trustworthy news report presents the facts and lets readers develop their own opinions.
But sometimes writers put their own opinions into what they write or how they describe a
topic. To recognize when what you are reading includes the writer's opinion, ask:

Does the source where this report came from publish news, opinions, or some of each?
Does the writer share different perspectives on the topic? Do they include their personal feelings?
Does the journalist present one perspective in a more positive way than another?
How do the facts in this report compare to other reports on the same topic? Do the writers
present information in similar ways?

Why is it important for journalists not to include their opinions when they report the news?

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Test It Out
Share your draft report with a test audience. Ask them the
questions below.

What did you learn or understand from our news report?

What else do you want to know?

What was not clear?

Revise
Use the feedback to revise and improve your report. Add words,
images, video or audio to:

Answer the test audience’s questions.

Add details or edit the words to make the information more clear.

Add anything you wanted the test audience to understand but

they did not say during the Test It Out step.

Once your report includes all the information needed:

Producer: Finalize your report in the digital tool.

Editor-in-Chief: Write a headline.

Share
Write a post in the e-classroom
to introduce your project and
describe what you learned. Then,
attach or link your news report.
Read the instructions on page 68
for more information.

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Digital Project: Food Security in Our City

As a class, write a post to introduce your news report. Remember to ask your
teacher to review your draft before you post. Remember to attach a file or share a
link to your project. Check that the link you share can be viewed by people outside
your class.

In your post: 1. What did you enjoy most about this project? Tell why.
2. What was the most challenging? Tell why.
3. In your opinion, what is the most important thing for people to learn from
your report? Why is it important to you that people learn this?
4. Ask your peers for feedback about a specific part of your report.

Subject

Use the link icon

to add a link.
Styles Size Font </> Source Less

Dear Peers,
What we enjoyed most about this project was
because .
Something challenging was
because .
We hope the people who view our report learn that

We think it is important for people to learn this because

Can you please give us feedback on ?

Sincerely,

Upload a File

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Click the Upload a File

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View and Reply: Food Security in Our City

Choose a digital project that does not have a reply. Read the introduction post and
view the project. Write a reply to respond to your peers’ request for feedback and
the ideas they shared. Remember to have your teacher review your draft before
you post.

In your reply: 1. Reply to your peers’ request for feedback. Think about what you learned
from Give Feedback on page 66.
2. What ideas presented in your peers’ report were similar to ones you learned
about in your city? What was new or different?
3. What is one action people in your peers’ city take to improve food security?
Do you think this action could work in your city? Why or why not?
4. Ask your peers a question to learn more about something they shared in
their report.

Reply: Add subject line Add attachment Use rich text editor

Dear ,
Thank you for sharing your news report. You asked for feedback on

We think (share your feedback)

Something similar about the ideas you shared and what we learned is

Something (new to me/different) is

Your idea for how people can take action (would/would not) work in our city because

(Ask your peers a question.) ?

Sincerely,

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Exchange: Food Security in Our City

Check your project post. Did any of your peers reply? Respond to their questions
and ideas to start an exchange. If you don't have a reply yet, look for another post
or reply and respond. Ask your teacher to review your draft before you post.

In your reply: 1. Answer a peer’s question.

2. Respond to one of the ideas a peer shared.
3. Make a connection to something a peer shared in the e-classroom. Think
about what you learned in Unit 3 or something from your life, your city, or your
culture to help you make a connection.
4. Ask a peer a question.

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Dear ,
To answer your question, I think

You shared the idea that

This makes me (think/feel/wonder)

What you wrote reminds me of

because

(Ask your peers a question.) ?

Sincerely,

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Look for other e-classroom exchanges you can join. Answer the questions your
peers asked, respond to their ideas, and ask a new question to learn more.

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Unit 3 Reflection
1. What did you learn about food security in your city? What did you learn about food security in
your peers' cities?

2. What questions do you still have about food security and sustainability? What do you want to
learn more about?

3. What did you learn about research in this unit that will help you in the future?

4. How did it feel to report on your city? What do you think is most important or most challenging
about sharing information with others?

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My Unit 3 Post and Reply Tracker

Discussion Board: Local Food Issues
My Post My Replies
Subject: Peer’s Date Peer
In my reply, did I:
Username Posted
Date:
Answer my peer’s question?
Did I receive replies? Yes No
Ask a question?
If yes, reply to start an exchange!
If no, write a reply to another post! Answer my peer’s question?

Ask a question?

Discussion Board: Food Security in Our City

My Post My Replies
Subject: Peer’s Date Peer
In my reply, did I:
Username Posted
Date:
Answer my peer’s question?
Did I receive replies? Yes No
Ask a question?
If yes, reply to start an exchange!
If no, write a reply to another post! Answer my peer’s question?

Ask a question?

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