During our investigations we weighed the students lunch portions. How much they took, ate and what became waste. We also did a survey everyday about the food. How they liked it, or if they chose not to eat at school and why. We did this the first time during a normal school week to set…
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Testing our educational material
A lesson with grade 2 The lesson we had for year 2 went very well and it was successful, because the children appreciated our job. The introduction We started the lesson by introducing ourselves and our project. After that, we went through what we were going to do during the lesson and then we started…
Step two in our investigation
Phase two in the investigation Phase two in our investigation is to let the students in grade nine choose/preorder their school lunch for three days. We do this to simulate the way our app would work. During these days we will repeat our investigation with weighing plates and doing the surveys. Preparations We started this…
Do the facts support our app idea?
Our app idea is based on the thought that it will help decreasing food waste. One of the first steps in our job with this part of the project is to investigate to see if this is true. So we started our investigation with the question: Will the food waste decrease if the…
Meeting with a CEO
A few weeks ago, we had a meeting with a company called Admentum. We had been contacting a lot of different companies who work with school platforms or food apps to see if they would like to work with us. We were really happy when finally, one of the companies said yes. Admentum is the…
Teach the younger children
After discussions on how we can reach out with our information we decided to create an educating material to teach the young children in school and preschool. The idea is that young kids usually talk about their day at home with their parents and that way we will spread the information to even more people….
Our mission: Reduce food waste
In Sweden we get a free lunch every day in school. Many students dislike the food, and we know that a lot of food is thrown away daily in every school across the country. What if we could find a way to change this? After brainstorming we had a few ideas: Sell or give away…
This is us!
Hi! We are a group of 8 girls from Sweden who have joined the Science 4 girls’ project. We are now in grade 8 but when the project first started, we were still in grade 7 and we were 12 girls in the group. In this blog we will tell you all about our work….