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About ACA Food for Thought! Putting Environmental Education
Theory into Practice Giving Kids a Natural World of Good — Sixth
in a Series of Six Articles A child sits on the edge of her
bench with rapt attention, waiting for the announcement. Looking
around, she realizes the chatter has subsided. One hundred and
forty other warm bodies are perched on the edge of their benches
too, waiting. "FOOD WASTE UPDATE!!!" an energetic young woman
bellows out over the crowd. The dining hall erupts into a
raucous din. The children pound out a drum roll on the wooden
tables. Their eyes dance with excitement. With a huge grin, the
instructor throws her hands in the air and every child follows
suit. An expectant pause follows. "THREE pounds!" the woman
announces, and the children burst into cheers and high fives. At
every meal, she had weighed the food that was left over on the
campers' plates. She graphed the amount on a chart, and the
weight had decreased at e