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Food Miles Fruit Salad

Arrow of Light – 5th Grade
Champions for Nature Arrow of Light
Elective
Requirement 2
Food Miles Fruit Salad
Arrow of Light – 5th Grade
Champions for Nature Arrow of Light
Elective
Requirement 2
Food Miles Fruit Salad

Snapshot of Activity

Cub Scouts calculate the miles that fruit has traveled for their fruit salad.

Indoor
2
4
2
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  • Food items for a fruit salad, use at least 3 items from various locales, enough for everyone to have a serving:
    • Apple
    • Banana
    • Grapes
    • Blueberries
    • Strawberries
    • Watermelon
    • Orange
  • Cutting board
  • Knife
  • Large mixing bowl
  • Serving spoon
  • Small serving cups, one for each Cub Scout
  • Fork or spoon, one for each Cub Scout
  • Fruit Salad Miles worksheet found in Additional Resources
  • Pencil or pen for each Cub Scout
  • Computer or smart device with internet connectivity, one for every two Cub Scouts
  • Printer

Before the meeting:

  1. Purchase items to make a fruit salad.
  2. When purchasing fruit make a note of where each of the fruit was grown.
  3. Choose at least 3 fruits that are sourced from various parts of the country.
  4. Print a Fruit Salad Miles worksheet for each Cub Scout.
  5. Set up the meeting space to make fruit salad and complete the worksheet.

During the meeting:

  1. Gather Cub Scouts around the items to make fruit salad. Discuss the term “food miles,” the distance food is transported from the time of its making until it reaches the consumer.
  2. Explain that you will be making fruit salad. Their job is to determine where each piece of fruit is grown and how many miles the fruit traveled to the meeting location.
    • Hold up a piece of fruit. Ask Cub Scouts to identify the fruit and then search for where it may have been grown using their smart device. Tell them to write it down on their worksheet.
    • Tell them where the fruit was grown.
    • Next, have them use their smart device to determine the number of miles between the growing location and the meeting location. Tell them to write it down on their worksheet.
    • Do this for each piece of fruit. While they are searching for each location and calculating miles, you cut up the fruit and place it in the mixing bowl.
  3. Once all the fruit has been placed in the mixing bowl, ask Cub Scouts to add up the miles.
  4. Lead a discussion on local growing while eating fruit salad.
    • What is the benefit of shorter distances?
    • Why do we buy products that require longer distances?

Additional Resources

Fruit Salad Miles worksheet

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Arrow of Light – 5th Grade

Food for Miles and Miles

Indoor
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4
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Cub Scouts calculate miles food traveled from source to table.

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